Advisory
The hard calls behind a firm that lasts.
I work with mid-size and large wealth and private-client firms on the decisions that determine whether they endure: talent, clients, systems, and the transactions that reshape all three.
Hands-on advisory from someone who has built and run these firms.
Someone who’s been early to the shifts you’re facing now—AI in advice, new retirement products, new models of investment advice—and built for them before they were consensus.
This is for you if:
You’re a principal or executive accountable for a mid-size or large wealth or private-client firm’s direction.
You’re deciding how to compete as advice commoditizes and AI resets client expectations.
You’re planning a transaction—acquiring, selling, merging, integrating—and want judgment from the principal’s side of the table.
You lead a team whose decisions carry real financial consequences, and you want them to make better decisions.
The Flagship
Building a wealth firm that endures.
Firm strategy & transformation
Positioning the firm around what a machine can’t replace. Where AI is leverage, and where it’s a threat. What to build, buy, or partner for. How to turn “we know our clients” from a slogan into a defensible premium.
M&A / Transaction advisory
Buy-side and sell-side judgment on the deals that redraw a firm. Valuation reality. What integration actually costs. What gets lost as well as gained. Drawn from $40B+ in cross-border M&A and three firms built and led through bull and bear markets.
Behavioral practice & client decisions
Behavioral finance made operational: how advisors advise, how clients decide, how the firm cuts the unforced errors that erode trust and margin. The doctorate applied, not quoted.
Selected Mandates
A selection of engagements with wealth and asset-management firms — and what the people who hired me took from the work.
Firm Strategy
Strategic Positioning & Alternative Analysis
Helping firms navigate critical turning points, assess the market, and choose the strongest strategic path forward.
“Instrumental in helping us analyse, negotiate and select the best alternatives.” — Brian Mallard, Mallard Wealth Advisors
M&A & New Business Lines
Launching New Business Lines
Supporting asset-management boutiques through new-offering launches, from strategy and M&A insight to operational execution.
“He helped us map out our launch plans and put the key foundations in place.” — Senior Partner, Private Asset Management Boutique
Strategic Consulting
Strategic Consulting for Private Wealth
High-level guidance across technical, operational, regulatory, and client-facing challenges in private wealth.
“The recommendations were very well received and are being implemented.” — Lucas Pontillo, CFO, Fiera Capital
Behavioral Seminars
Influence Without Authority
Practical behavioral-science tools that help sales teams drive adoption and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
“Immediately applicable day-to-day. Great session — incredibly helpful.” — Product Wholesaler, Leading Canadian Bank
Beyond the flagship
Behavioral finance for teams that decide
The same expertise travels beyond full engagements. Behavioral-finance seminars and decision workshops for leadership and sales teams inside banks, insurers, and financial firms. Lighter-touch coaching and seminars for smaller firms that want the thinking without a full engagement.
A recent example:
"A behavioral-finance session for a bank’s sales team on the biases that quietly shape client conversations—and outcomes."
How we would work together
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal.
If it’s a fit, most work takes one of a few shapes:
A retainer
For ongoing judgment on live decisions.
A defined project
Around a specific transaction or transformation.
Seminar / Workshop
To change how a team—or a smaller firm—decides.
Underneath all of them runs the Uncertainty E.D.G.E.™: establish what you control, diagnose what really drives the situation, go / act without false certainty, evolve as conditions change.
$80B+
Client Assets Managed
$40B+
Cross-Border M&A
3
Wealth Firms Built
Doctorate
Behavioral Finance
Not ready to talk? Start here.
The Judgment Premium is my guidebook on building a durable wealth firm as the commodity disappears.
The thinking behind how I work—free to read, no sign-up required.
Let’s talk.
Whether you’re facing a specific decision, rethinking your strategy, or want your team deciding better—the first step is a conversation. I read every message personally.