An Overview To George Kinder & The Kinder Institute

Search an online bookstore for articles on how to reach your dreams and you’ll come across more books than you could read in your lifetime. Similarly, books on financial planning are everywhere. The strangest thing is that, until recently, nobody had developed a method for combining these two vital and interdependent fields. George Kinder, founder of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning, changed all that and many lives along the way.

So who is George Kinder, and how does the Kinder Institute work?

Introducing the Father of the Life Planning Movement

George Kinder was educated at Harvard and has been a financial planner and tax advisor for over 30 years. However, Kinder’s realisation that money without meaning is an empty endeavour, has led him to write three seminal works that have been very well received.

Moreover, Kinder has delivered keynote addresses at dozens of organisations around the world and has been featured in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and the New York Times.

Kinder’s Books

To say George Kinder’s books have changed people’s lives would be an understatement. His first book, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, harnesses Kinder’s Buddhist teachings to his financial acumen, and gives the reader an in-depth understanding of the psychology of money.

Lighting the Torch has helped numerous financial planners realise their client’s dreams while bringing passion to their trade. Kinder’s third book, Life Planning For You, offers a step-by-step plan to help readers embark on their own life-planning journey.

One glance at Amazon highlights the difference these books have been made for many. For more information on these books click here.

How the Kinder Institute Helps

The Kinder Institute is dedicated to helping financial planners realise their client’s dreams in order to create a meaningful financial plan. This is done through the Institute’s Seven Stages of Money Maturity workshops and EVOKE® training courses.

Financial planners who have undergone training are made available to the public via listings on Kinder Institute.

Meanwhile, a companion website at Life Planning For You allows financial planners and clients to work through the EVOKE® process together.

How the Seven Stages of Money Workshop Works

This course is absolutely essential for financial planners wishing to take a client-focused approach to money. By understanding the psychological narrative that underpins financial decisions, financial planners will learn the human reasons behind financial self-sabotage, lack of planning, lack of implementation, and inappropriate risk-taking.

After all, there’s no point working with clients to create a financial plan that won’t be followed for reasons that seem obscure at best. As a financial planner, this is your first step on the road to helping your clients on a deeper level while growing your business through referrals.

How EVOKE® Training Works

EVOKE® Training is the advanced element of the Kinder Institute’s training programme. In five days, financial planners learn a system that allows them to uncover their client’s innermost desires and aspirations.

From here, professional relationship skills are learned to earn client trust, facilitate energy and motivation, break down obstacles, and transform client’s lives through the strategic alliance of life goals and financial planning.

Many financial planners leave the course with a sound understanding of their own life plans, and many find it a transformative experience.

Why You Should Become a Registered Life Planner®

On a human level, becoming a Registered Life Planner® is the difference between transforming yours and your clients’ lives and putting a plan together that is independent from human nature.

On a career level, it will give your work new meaning, with many Registered Life Planners® enriched by the chance to truly help their clients. On a business level, you’ll have the chance to grow your business through referrals to your niche practice, while client’s who have read George Kinder’s books can find you on the Kinder Institute’s directory.

Given the positive international profile George Kinder and the Kinder Institute are receiving, Life Planning is a field that is destined to grow. Becoming a Registered Life Planner® offers an unprecedented opportunity to grow your business and yourself within the future of financial planning.

George Kinder’s vision and the work of the Kinder Institute have radically altered the tired paradigm of financial planning. By putting client’s dreams in the picture and training financial planners to amalgamate these with a solid financial structure, the industry can look forward to a new and fulfilling chapter for itself and its clients.

At Expert Wealth Management we work with the Kinder Institute to train our professional financial planners, why not check out our team by clicking here.

If you need any financial advice do not hesitate to get in contact with one of our team today by calling 01993 772 467 or contact us online.