Indresh is a Registered Life Planner® (RLP®) trained by the Kinder Institute of Life Planning to do extensive work with a client exploring his life goals and dreams and helping him find a way to achieve them. This Life Planning work precedes the traditional financial side of planning such as risk management, investing, estate planning, etc. An RLP® has spent at least 100 hours in training sessions, seminars and working with a mentor to discover how to best develop a total Life Plan for a client. Most are CFPs® as well, and/or Chartered/CPA in the UK, Europe or US.

 

What is Financial Life Planning?

Financial Life Planning is a holistic approach to financial planning that leads with the PERSON not their money. It may sound obvious that a financial planner should first understand a client’s fundamental goals and values before talking about their investments or retirement plans. But the fact is most people have dreams for their lives that are closely guarded and beliefs about money and their own talents that are unexamined. Those beliefs often frustrate the most well-intentioned planning process. Financial Planners are also more comfortable talking about rate of returns, estate planning and likes and have little exposure to the human side of money.

 

Financial Life Planning is the art or human side of financial planning. In Financial Life Planning, we discover a client’s deepest goals and aspirations through a process of structured inquiry. Then, using a mix of professional and relationship skills, we resolve the obstacles to those goals, create a plan, and guide the client to the accomplishment of their goals.

 

Clients love it because they feel understood. We like it because we have much more satisfying relationships and more referrals. It’s an exceptionally positive experience on both side.

 

​George Kinder

Internationally recognized as the father of the Life Planning movement, the Harvard-educated Kinder is the founder of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning. He has been a practicing financial planner and tax advisor for over 30 years.
The Kinder Institute trainings are recognized world-wide as the standard for trainings in client-advisor relationship skills. There are over 350 Registered Life Planners® fully trained and certified worldwide. Kinder was recently listed in Professional Adviser’s annual review as one of the 50 Most Influential People in the world of financial advice.