Apr 23 2009 1:00PM

Andre Donikian - It's Always Better to Make a Gift of Closely Held Stock Before It's Sold--Or Is It?

The presentation will focus on gifts of closely held stock and whether it is always better to make the gift before the company is sold. Contrary to commonly held assumptions, it turns out this is not necessarily true. In some instances especially where S stock is involved it's better to make the gift with after sale proceeds of the stock.

Apr 23 2009 2:50PM

Alan Pratt, Rob Vatter and Lynn Vaughn - The Triple Play……The collaboration among Advisor, Charity and Donor

Charities across America are in a great need to network and collaborate with trusted advisors, who will provide the opportunity for their stake holders to be aware of estate planning ideas, investment tools, and endowment fund goals. Most development officers are unprepared or unaware of the wonderful opportunity that exist to partner with advisors. They also have real or imagined fears and that their donors will not be treated with respect or will be guided to give elsewhere. Building purposeful relationships between the for-profit advisor and the non-profit professional is paramount in today’s economic landscape. It provides a very high touch, high trust relationship entirely focused on the benefits to the donor/client. In this session, you will hear from all three: the professional advisor – Alan Pratt, the non-profit executive – Rob Vatter, and the client/donor/philanthropist – Lynn Vaughn. Listen to how the proactive collaboration between Mr. Pratt and Mr. Vatter have led to an outstanding outcome for Mrs. Vaughn and her husband, Hal. This three-way collaboration began in 2007 and continues to grow and evolve now into 2009. Come learn how you can apply these timeless principals to your practice and create “The Triple Play” in your local market.

Apr 23 2009 2:50PM

Thomas Backer - Donor Advisors and Philanthropic Strategy: Findings from a National Research Study

In May 2008, the nonprofit Human Interaction Research Institute released findings from a national study of donor advisors and their impact on philanthropic strategy. Supported by a grant from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, this study involved 75 interviews and a review of the limited literature on this subject. It found that creating trust, building psychological understanding of donors, having knowledge about the nonprofit community, and ability to do research on behalf of donors were all critical factors in successful advising on philanthropy. Results also revealed that donor advisors often use a common set of interventions to work with their wealthy clients. The study placed donor advising in the larger context of philanthropic actions by engaged donors, as well as donor networking organizations and other philanthropic institutions. In this session, results from the study will be summarized, planned follow-on research will be discussed briefly, and a dialogue opened about implications of this exploratory research for advisors.

Apr 23 2009 4:00PM

Dr. Robb Musgrave - Your Difference; Your Values!

Discover how your values define you as an adviser and as an individual. Dr Robb Musgrave will show you how to take a unique process and identify your dominant values and those of your best prospects. He will share with you his important PhD research on what clients believe is really important. You will be surprised by the research findings. Knowing what is really important to someone helps you to: o establish the vital ingredients in client relationships – Trust & Respect o work with clients on achieving their values-drive goals and objectives o engage your clients to focus on solving their problems using your services Using this process allows you to build stronger, deeper connections with your chosen clients.

Apr 23 2009 4:00PM

Gregory Baker - Combining Charitable and Special Needs Planning

This presentation reviews some of the options available to families who want to combine their charitable dreams with their desire to help a family member who has special needs. This session will describe how to combine a Special Needs Trust and a Charitable Remainder Trust as part of a client’s estate plan. We will also describe how to choose which kinds of CRTs and SNTs work together. . .and more importantly, which combinations will not work. We’ll provide a layman’s overview of Medicaid planning and build the case for incorporating charitable gift planning as part of the process. Two learning outcomes from the session a. Attendees will learn how charitable gift planning intersects with special needs planning b. Attendees will have a blueprint for combining a Charitable Remainder Trust with a Special Needs Trust

Apr 23 2009 6:00PM

Dinner and Living Room Style Interview with Philanthropists William and Sallie Wallace, hosted by Les Winston

A special highlight of the conference is a dinner and living room-style interview with philanthropists William B. and Sallie B. Wallace, founders of the Wallace Chair in Philanthropy at the American College in 1999. The interview will be conducted by AiP member Les Winston, host of the “Funny Money” radio show in South Florida.

Apr 24 2009 8:15AM

Roy Williams - How Philanthropists Use their Foundations to Increase their Odds of Post-Transition Success (a "stealth tool" for financial training of their heirs?)

The Williams Group has been researching and preparing families for succession planning for over 45 years. As part of their proprietary research, they looked into 100 family foundations and made some startling discoveries. Philanthropy teaches, whether you want it to or not, clear messages around family values, the importance of a family philanthropic mission, and the importance of accountability. All are wonderful lessons for children, and valuable adjuncts to philanthropy itself. Roy will give you insight into how you might double the "value" of your foundation with respect to preparing your heirs for their inheritance!

Apr 24 2009 10:15AM

Hugh Massie - Philanthropy DNA – Discovering Your Giving Behavior

What is the purpose of money in your family? What will your legacy be? Have you experienced poor communication leading to poor giving choices? Do you and your family share the same vision for giving? Who do you want to give to? Hugh Massie will unlock the answers to these questions with a practical “inside-out” approach to help you build the foundations for bringing you and your clients more planned giving freedom and to make more committed decisions. In this presentation, Hugh will demonstrate how by understanding certain predictable aspects of natural “hard-wired” behavior discovered through scientific research you can learn: 1. More about each person's unique perspectives on giving and managing the giving process 2. Techniques for improving family communication based on each person's unique style 3. To improve all giving and financial decisions through an enhanced relationship to money 4. How to build a Family Futurity Plan recognizing your planned giving motivations 5. To define the family legacy upon which future planned giving decisions will be made

Apr 24 2009 10:15AM

Jay Steenhuysen - Philanthropy's Other Motivations

Not every person becomes a philanthropist to do good. Many discover the joy of giving long after having engaged in the practice. Come discover the eight motivations that can attract a HNW individual into the practice of philanthropy. Learn how to engage that person in a conversation to discover and satisfy that person's motivation.

Apr 24 2009 12:30PM

Susan Fox Buchanan - The Health Care Side of Wealth Care Planning

Philanthropy, the "active effort to promote human welfare," (Webster) inherently includes concern for the health of donors, as well as their financial resources. "Living wills" are being replaced by "Advance care planning," and a new generation of legal instruments is evolving to record and implement individual preferences and guidelines for medical treatment. In depth discussions about "quality of life" and end-of-life concerns are vehicles for exploring values and clarifying charitable directions, as well as accomplishing practical goals and benefits for prospective donors. This session will provide an overview and explain general differences among various kinds of advance directives (medical durable powers of attorney, proxies and surrogates, resuscitation directives, POLST documents and mental health directives.) Examples of popular "off-the-shelf" directives will be compared, and alternatives to "boilerplate" approaches will be presented. Participants are welcome to use ideas and materials from this session for discussion with their own families, as well as with clients.

Apr 24 2009 12:30PM

Todd Fithian - Business Transition, Do We Practice What We Preach?

Why is it that we spend most of our days coaching and advising our client’s through difficult and challenging choices, but when it comes to your own business you can’t seem to find the time? We often refer to this as “working in the business, rather than on the business”. Can your business survive without you and if so for how long, a two week vacation, the summer or a lifetime? During this presentation, I will share with you my personal experience from losing my brother and business partner Scott Fithian. I will share first hand the steps we took to prepare for a possible transition and where the business is today. You coach and advise your clients to prepare, but do you practice what you preach?

Apr 24 2009 1:45PM

John Warnick - Beneficiaries, Trustees, Charities--Why All The Hostility After Your Client's Death

In late 2001 a client gave John Warnick the task of finding James E. "Jay" Hughes, author of Family Wealth--Keeping It in the Family. Little did John know that this journey would result in a five year learning odyssey under the mentoring influence of Jay Hughes and would forever change the way he practices law and serves families. This presentation will describe three of the exciting concepts John Warnick has pioneered: Purposeful Trusts, Seeds of Gratitude and Grandmonsters. All three of these new planning paradigms can revolutionize your practice, tremendously increase your client's satisfaction with the planning process, and avoid creating squabbling siblings, angry beneficiaries and inheritors who are challenging charitable bequests and family foundations. The Purposeful Trust is based on Mr. Warnick's commitment to capturing his client's voice and assisting them to pass on to their heirs more than just money. You will learn about exciting new opportunities that lie beyond ethical wills. Many of these techniques can be utilized by all members of the estate planning team and not just the skilled estate planning attorney. Seeds of Gratitude will help you apply cutting-edge research and thinking from the field of positive psychology to assist clients move from being mere checkwriters to becoming Inspired Philanthropists. When applied to gifts in trust the three Seeds of Gratitude can powerfully counteract the negative influences of remittance addiction, financial adaptation, entitlement and affluenza. Grandmonsters come in all sorts of shapes and sizes but we will be learning what we can do as advisors to help our clients make sure they don't end up with grandmonsters in their family tree.

Apr 24 2009 1:45PM

Sharna Goldseker - Philanthropy Across Generations

In this era, when there are four generations above the age of 21 around philanthropic tables, multiple generations are learning to understand “generational personalities,” motivational values, and visions. As a community, philanthropy is beginning to focus on the education of younger adults involved in their family’s philanthropy. Come prepared for hands-on activities and group discussions on adult children, their parents and grandparents working together towards philanthropic goals. Please join us and giving initiatives across the region as we learn about the challenges and joys families experience when making charitable decisions together.

Apr 24 2009 3:30PM

Baroness Caroline Cox - A Light in the Darkness: The Privilege of Making a Difference

Baroness Cox is CEO of HART [Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust] which has the distinctive remit of combining aid and advocacy for people who are , or have recently been, suffering oppression and persecution and who tend to be "off the radar screen" of international media and major humanitarian organisations. Working closely with local partners, HART is able to make a significant difference for some of the most neglected and isolated people in the world today.

Apr 25 2009 8:15AM

Laird Koldyke - The Laird Norton Family: Keeping a Family together for Seven Generations

The presentation will provide an overview of a seventh generation family founded in 1855 who, with 385 family members, continues to work and play together. There will be a discussion of the programs that have held the family together through the recent sale of its major asset and the new Family Foundation that resulted from that sale.

Apr 25 2009 10:15AM

Tanya Howe Johnson - Is There Hope for Planned Giving?

The planned giving world, as both nonprofits and financial advisors have traditionally known it, has changed dramatically in the past twenty years. And, if often seems that these changes forecast doom and gloom--government scrutiny and regulation, elimination of charitable tax incentives, reduction in asset values, tension between financial advisors and charitable gift planners. What are these changes? How are they affecting charities, advisors, and your clients? What can you expect in the future? And, how can you not only survive these challenges, but help turn the tide?

Thomas E. Backer, PhD is President of the Human Interaction Research Institute, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit center for research and intervention on innovation and change founded in 1961.  He also is Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology at the UCLA School of Medicine.  For 20 years he has worked closely with foundations in the U.S., Canada and Australia,  consulting to foundation boards and top management; he has contributed  to Chronicle of Philanthropy and Foundation News and Commentary, and is the author of a 1995 book published by the Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation, Adding Value to Grantmaking: Dissemination and Utilization Strategies for Foundations.
 
His Institute's research in philanthropy includes a national study of foundation support for nonprofit capacity building, which led to a national online database of philanthropic programs in this area, supported by six foundations.  Other projects include research for The California Endowment on long-term sustainability of multicultural coalitions, for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on capacity-building, for the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation on partnerships in the arts, for the James Irvine Foundation on expanding a national arts organization to the west coast, and for the Nike Foundation on youth philanthropy.  Work for the Annie E. Casey Foundation includes studies of individual donor perspectives on nonprofit capacity building and place-based philanthropy; capacity building and collaboration strategies for small foundations; and transformational change through peer networking in large foundations. 
 
Dr. Backer is a member of Mitsubishi Electric of America Foundation's American Advisory Board,  National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers, and Hispanics in Philanthropy. A licensed psychologist in California, Dr. Backer holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Gregory W. Baker, J.D., ChFC®, CFP®, CAP, is President of Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc., a charity that offers Donor-Advised Funds to donors nationally. In this role, Mr. Baker reviews and revises the Foundation's policies as well as monitors performance and compliance of the charity’s assets and relationships with donors and money managers. For the past 19 years, he has provided trust, tax and philanthropic financial planning advice to over 4,000 attorneys and 8,000 development officers and financial planners in all 50 states regarding more than 18,000 charitable remainder trusts, more than 800 charitable lead trusts, and numerous foundations, charitable gift annuities and donor-advised funds.

Mr. Baker’s advice has helped donors contribute over $6 billion to charitable gift plans. Mr. Baker is currently an Advisory Board Member of the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy designation at the American College, member of the Financial Planning Association, National Committee on Planned Giving and the Indiana Bar. Mr. Baker was previously VP, Charitable Fiduciary Risk Manager for the Merrill Lynch Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Management in Princeton, NJ. Mr. Baker speaks at national and local conferences for professional advisors, high net worth clients and charities regarding charitable gift planning, asset-allocation, investment modeling and tax issues.

The Right Honourable The Baroness (Caroline) Cox of Queensbury (born July 6, 1937) was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005 and is currently a cross-bench peer (Independent Member of the House of Lords).  From 1985 to 1986 she served as a Baroness-in-Waiting to Her Majesty The Queen.  As Chief Executive of HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust), which fosters humanitarian aid missions for suffering peoples around the world, Baroness Cox is a voice for the voiceless, advocating on behalf of HART’s partners in Parliament and around the world.  She currently serves as Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She is also a strong advocate for disability causes, serving as a Member of the World Committee on Disability and a Judge for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award.  In 2004, she was appointed a Special Rapateur by the Britsh Foreign and Commonwealth Office for Religious Freedom and Belief.

Lady Cox's work in the field of humanitarian aid has taken her on many missions to conflict zones, including over 65 visits to the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh; countless visits to Africa including Sudan, Uganda and Nigeria; to the Karen, Karenni and Chin peoples in the jungles of Burma; and to communities suffering from conflict in India and Indonesia. She has visited North Korea, helping to promote parliamentary initiatives and medical programs. In her work as a social scientist, she has been instrumental in helping to change the former Soviet Union policies for orphaned and abandoned children from institutional to foster family care. 

Positions:  Lady Cox’s many positions include: 
 Chancellor: Liverpool Hope University; Bournemouth University, 1991-2001
 Hon. President: Tushinskaya (Moscow) Children's Hospital Trust; Standing Conference of Women's Organisations; Dean Close School; Churches Together Highgate.
 Vice-President: The Royal College of Nursing of the UK; Girl Guides Association; Love Russia; UN Association – Westminster; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; St Lawrence College.
 Hon. Vice-Chairman: Executive Board of the International Islamic Christian Organisation for Reconciliation and Reconstruction (IICORR).
 Patron: Medical Aid for Poland Fund; Premier Radio; Physicians for Human Rights, UK; Project Rachel-Romania; Columbia Childcare (UK);  British School of Oesteopathy; British Association for Service to the Elderly.
 Trustee: Siberian Medical University, Tomsk; Chernobyl Relief Foundation; The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation; MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International).
 Director: Educational Research Trust; Andrei Sakarov Foundation
 Member of Board/Advisory Council: Accident and Emergency Nursing. IUS et Lex-Poland; Emmanuel College; Project Cure; King's Fund; The Barnabas Fund; MigrationWatch.

As President of the Tushinskaya Paediatric Hospital Trust, Baroness Cox worked closely with its former patron, the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Publications:  Lady Cox is a prolific author, her many publications including:
 A Sociology of Medical Practice (1975)
 Rape of Reason: The Corruption of the Polytechnic of North London (jt au 1975)
 The Right to Learn (jt au 1982)
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André R. Donikian, JD, attorney and a member of the New York Bar, is a noted planned and major gifts expert with 35 years of service in the field. As founder, president, and editor in chief of Pentera Inc., a full-service planned-giving firm based in Indianapolis, he has advised thousands of nonprofit organizations—including the nation's top nonprofits—on all aspects of connecting organizations and donors.

Mr. Donikian has published and lectured extensively on philanthropic tax planning and has developed continuing education programs for state bar associations and accountancy boards. He has gained a reputation as a sought-after speaker who helps nonprofits further their missions and provides individual donors with vital information that might affect their ability to achieve their philanthropic goals.

Mr. Donikian has served on the board of NCPG and the Board of Advisors of Union College and is a founder and former board member of the Planned Giving Group of Indiana. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the David M. Donaldson Distinguished Service Award from the Planned Giving Group of New England in 1991, and The Spirit of Philanthropy Award from The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University in 2006.

Among his noted achievements: from 1989 to 1997 the organization now known as the Independent Colleges of Indiana Foundation retained Mr. Donikian under Lilly Endowment and Ball Brothers Foundation grants to act as gift-planning counsel to all of the independent colleges of Indiana, to train and educate their development staff, board members, and key volunteers and to conduct numerous seminars for prospects and donors.

Todd Fithian has literally grown up in the Financial Services industry.  As a member of the third generation of the family in the industry, Todd along with his late brother Scott C. Fithian, were always driven to approach things a little differently than their predecessors.  As Todd often puts it, by starting at a different place, more effective, lasting results will certainly be delivered.

A lifelong entrepreneur, Todd formed his own financial advisory firm in Boston soon after graduating from The University of Massachusetts.  Todd then joined forces with his brother Scott in 1996 to form The Legacy Companies, a consulting company for professional advisors to learn and implement the Fithian’s proprietary “Discovery Process”.  As co-developer of The Legacy Wealth Optimization System®, Todd has consulted with advisors, business owners, corporations and families in the US, Canada and Australia.

Today, Todd is the CEO of The Legacy Companies and a frequent speaker on the subject of Client Discovery and Sustainability.  Although not as often as he would like, Todd continues to spend time consulting with business owners and families, leading them through their own Discovery Process. 

Todd and his wife Debbie have two sons and a daughter.  When he’s away from his work, Todd is often found in a hockey rink behind the bench coaching his two son’s teams.

Sharna Goldseker is Vice President of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies (ACBP) where she directs 21/64 (www.2164.net), a division specializing in next generation and multi-generational strategic philanthropy. In that capacity, Sharna manages Grand Street, a network for 18-28 year olds who are or will be involved in their family’s philanthropy; develops philanthropic tools; and, speaks and consults on multigenerational philanthropy with families, foundations and family offices.

Previous to ACBP, Sharna was a program officer at Philanthropy Advisors, a multi-family foundation office in New York, where she managed grantmaking in the areas of legal rights, reproductive health, social justice and the environment. Sharna was also a project coordinator for Enterprise Homes, a subsidiary of The Enterprise Foundation, where she developed affordable rental and for-sale housing in Maryland.

Sharna graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania with majors in Urban Studies and Religious Studies. She has a Masters in Public Administration in Non-Profit Management from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Sharna currently serves on the board of the Goldseker Foundation and Chairs the Council on Foundation’s Committee on Family Foundations.

Tanya Howe Johnson is president and CEO of the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning (formerly National Committee on Planned Giving), an organization whose members include 130 councils (chapters) and over 10,000 charitable gift planners and financial services professionals involved in the process of helping donors plan and make major charitable gifts. During her 17 year tenure the organization has developed the award-winning publication, The Journal of Gift Planning; launched LEAVE A LEGACY®, a national award-winning donor education campaign; promoted ethical guidelines for planned gift fundraising; created numerous industry standards and best practice models for charitable gift planning; and advocated widely for legislation and regulation that encourage responsible philanthropy.

In addition to other honors, The NonProfit Times named Johnson to both its 2007 and 2008 national "Nonprofit Power and Influence Top 50". She has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, Columbia College (Missouri), and was selected as the 2004 national honor initiate for Sigma Kappa Sorority. She currently sits on the American Society of Association Executives' Key Philanthropic Organizations Committee. As a charitable giving advocate, she has met with President George W. Bush and numerous members of Congress, and has been quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

Laird Koldyke is a senior private equity professional with 14 years of experience in sourcing, executing, managing and governing venture investments, with a particular focus on growth consumer companies.

Before forming Winona Capital Management, he was the Founding Partner of Triple Tree Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm. Prior to that venture, he held the position of General Partner with the Frontenac Company, a private equity firm with over $1 billion under management.

Mr. Koldyke has served on the boards of numerous consumer companies including: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Einstein’s Bagels, Wild Oats Markets, Home Fashions Inc., Marks Bros. Jewelers and Leewards Crafts. Currently, he is a director of Top Driver Inc., Stellar Restaurants LLC (Boloco), and The Laird Norton Company. He holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. He regularly lectures at his alma mater on leadership and private equity.

Hugh Massie, is an international Wealth Mentor and the author of “Financial DNA® – Discovering Your Unique Financial Personality for a Quality Life” published by John Wiley & Sons in February 2006.

Hugh introduces a very different approach to wealth creation and how you can build a quality life. This “understanding people before numbers” approach has evolved with his own personal development and experiences through a very diverse career initially as a tax specialist with Arthur Andersen in Sydney, Singapore and Thailand, then in 1996 starting his own financial services firm in Sydney, Australia and then in 1999 commencing the development of Financial DNA with an experienced team. Since its full commercialization in 2003 Financial DNA has become an international financial behavior consulting business, with Hugh now based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hugh and his team have trained over 4000 advisors worldwide in the Financial DNA® Discovery Process to position them as wealth mentors. Financial DNA Resources also conducts a range of comprehensive wealth mentoring programs for investors, families, and business owners to help them with their wealth creation and building a quality life aligned to the core of who they are.

Robb Musgrave has 30 years of experience in financial services since starting with the Australian Treasury in his early 20’s.  Most of that time has been proving a record of performance as a licensed financial adviser helping clients to get into good financial shape and then keeping them that way.  His firm, Musgrave Financial Group continues to provide responsive financial planning strategies, advice and management to clients.

Robb is a Fellow of the Association of Financial Advisers Australia as well as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the USA organisation Advisors in Philanthropy.  His PhD thesis on “Creating Personal Legacies” resulted in his being acknowledged as one of Australia’s leading experts on how individuals build “powerful living legacies.”

As he says, “everyone who is loved by someone leaves a legacy in some form or other, but few people will know the power of a structured personal legacy.”

Robb is also the CEO of a new company, Legenis which deals with high-net-worth clients and corporate entities and assists them to identify their important values, structure their legacies, and assist them in establishing and managing family and corporate foundations and to become more philanthropic while taking advantage of life insurance and tax concessions in order to create living legacies for clients.

His own family foundation “The Judy Musgrave Family Foundation” is constructed to benefit various lifelong learning, education and medical research charities.

Previously, he has been the founding director of a national licensed investment dealership which rapidly grew from a start up to become the 3rd largest independently owned dealership in Australia with over 250 licensed advisers.  He is a Life Member of the prestigious Million Dollar Round Table and has also served as a member of a select committee to the Australian Treasurer on Superannuation and Life Insurance.

Robb has a broad range of interests including personal development, fast cars, travel, reading and writing.  He has been involved in the leadership of a private school foundation and local community associations.
Robb believes, “What you value, becomes your Legacy” and follows the famous Winston Churchill motto, “You make a living from what you get, you make a life from what you give.”

Robb’s innovative business, Legenis takes a strong Values based consulting approach. This approach moves financial advising from a transactional business to a transformational one. The essence of the approach involves working with HNW clients to establish family foundations.

At Legenis all our clients are new clients, having been referred to us by other professional service advisers (Financial Planners, Lawyers, Accountants) and working with major donors of charities and through personal networking and client referrals. Because of the nature of the business we tend to only work with HNW clients.  Legenis is currently a boutique business with plans to expand nationally via licensees and strategic partners.

Alan Pratt, CEP, CAP is a family legacy advisor specializing in philanthropy and family wealth preservation. He brings a unique blend of personal experience and technical knowledge to the estate planning process. Alan helps families understand, in plain English, their options for preserving wealth in a way that honors their underlying values. Alan's company, Pratt Legacy Advisors practices a unique form of estate planning that goes far beyond strategic wealth distribution. Alan believes that a meaningful estate plan comes from knowing your values, living your values, and planning from your values. His firm has created Legacy Planning from the HeartÔ, a process to help you integrate your life experiences with your estate plan, while maintaining ongoing communication within your family. He holds trust, listening, and life-long relationships as core values in everything he undertakes and shares from his own personal experiences.

Alan is in demand as a speaker at regional, national, and international conferences dealing with family relationships, wealth preservation, and stewardship. He is recognized as a leader in Advanced Life Insurance designs, which is often used as a strategy to responsibly transition family wealth.

He earned his Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy designation in 2006 and currently serves as the President of The International Association of Advisors in Philanthropy (AIP). In 2007, he became a founding member of the Seattle Philanthropic Advisors Network (SPAN) and currently serves on the Board as Vice President.  He is an active member of the National Institute of Certified Estate Planners, Washington Planned Giving Council, and the Seattle Chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Alan serves on the Advisory Board of the Chief Seattle Council–Boy Scouts of America and the Seattle Christian Community Foundation. Alan and his wife, Helen, were married in 1984 and have 3 children.

As a recognized industry leader, Alan is in demand as a speaker at regional, national, and international conferences dealing with family relationships, wealth preservation, and stewardship. In addition, he is well known as an expert in Advanced Life Insurance designs which is a key component in successful family wealth transition plans. Alan's audiences include wealthy individuals and families interested in creating their personal legacy plans, as well as, professional advisors who desire to better serve and bring added value to their client relationships.

The following is a list of topics that Alan has spoken on this past year. He continues to build this list based on the demand he receives for presentations to address interests of wealthy individuals and families.

Current Presentations Offered

• Turning Your Life Plan Into Your Legacy
•  Legacy Planning from the HeartÔ 
•  Collaborating with Allied Professionals - Moving Charitable Clients from "Charitable Giving 101" to "Charitable Giving 401" While Creating Profitable Engagement for all Members of the Advisory Team
•  Principles of Values-Based Legacy Planning
•  The Pratt Family Private Discussion - a personal testimony
•  Values-Based Practice Management - Buildin
  

Jay Steenhuysen is the founder of Steenhuysen Associates and co-founder of Covenant Calls, which have assisted numerous charitable organizations solicit hundreds of thousands of donors for a bequest commitment.  He has consulted with a variety of national charitable organizations, including The Nature Conservancy and the American Cancer Society, refining and refocusing their gift planning, major gift, and marketing programs to meet the needs of donors at all wealth levels.

Jay developed Brown University’s philanthropic planning program within the principal gifts department. He served World Vision as private giving counsel, facilitating the philanthropic planning needs of its most significant donors. Prior to that role, he directed World Vision’s Gift Planning Program, including all aspects of marketing and solicitation of planned gifts.

Jay Steenhuysen served myCFO, a wealth management firm, as Director of Philanthropic Services in 2001, having consulted with the firm since 2000. He brought to myCFO his years of experience working with individuals, families, and groups to develop their philanthropic interests and find ways to express those interests through charitable giving.

Jay has served as a board member of the National Committee on Planned Giving and has been active in every officer position in the Planned Giving Round Table of Southern California. 

Jay holds a BA from Seattle Pacific University, an MA in theological studies from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

I grew up in a family dedicated to service.  My father was a Rotarian and my husband and I have been Lions for a number of years.  The Lions Service Clubs were challenged by Helen Keller to become Knights for the Blind.  We have donated to Lions Clubs International Foundation Sight First I and II projects.  The goal of these projects is to eradicate preventable blindness in the World.

For a number of years my husband and I have served in various positions on the Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight and Hearing. We have supported the Foundations projects such as Sightlife, The Mobile Screening Unit and Patient Care Grants by contributing to the Foundations Endowment Fund.  By contributing to the endowment fund we believe our donations will provide funds for years to come.

We were pleased to learn through a seminar presented by Pratt Legacy that we could continue to support the Lions projects through estate planning.

John A. Warnick is a senior partner in the Denver office of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, a firm of 250 lawyers with offices in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, London and Munich, and chairs the firm’s Family Wealth Advisory practice group. 

Mr. Warnick is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of AFHE (Attorneys for Family Held Enterprises) and Advisors in Philanthropy.  He also serves as chairman of the Go For It! Foundation (empowering children and youth with seven keys to success in life and school), a member of  the Board of Elders of the Collaboration for Family Flourishing, and on the advisory board of the Family Building Institute (providing solutions to the space between parenting and grandparenting).

Mr. Warnick’s practice emphasizes multi-generational trust planning and wealth transfer planning.  He has also assisted numerous families in choosing the most favorable trust situs for the tax and non-tax objectives of existing trusts as well as in designing and drafting “new” trusts which have the flexibility to adapt to changing legal and tax climates.  Mr. Warnick balances his enthusiasm for tax savings with insightful questions which insure the planning is congruent with the client’s core values.  He spends approximately twenty percent of his professional life facilitating family retreats and providing wealth counseling and fiduciary consulting services.  He particularly enjoys what he describes as “Beneficiary Preparation”:  educating, training and mentoring adolescents and emerging adults in financial literacy, philanthropic service, and holistic family wealth principles.

Working with a team of nationally recognized family wealth coaches and psychologists, Mr. Warnick has explored the intersection of wealth and emerging adulthood.  That collaboration has led to a series of ongoing surveys that explore how trustees are reacting to the sociological phenomena of emerging adulthood and how emerging adult beneficiaries and family members are getting launched in life.  He has pioneered new trust distribution and governance models which will assist trust makers and trustees in their quest to assure that wealth contributes to positive growth in the lives of heirs and beneficiaries.  He has been asked to share his concepts and ideas on how trustees can better serve beneficiaries with a number of family offices, private trust companies and professional trustees. 

Mr. Warnick has written and spoken extensively across the nation.  He was the author of two BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) Tax Management portfolios.  He co-authored "Selecting a Trust Situs in the 21st Century" which was published in the March/April 2002 issue of Probate and Property.  He is currently serving as co-editor of a book on best practices for trusts and large gifts entitled The Generative Trust, Trustee and Trust Advisor and is also working on two other books entitled The New Vocabulary of Family Wealth and Beyond Ethical Wills – The Secrets of Creating Purposeful Trusts which he hopes to complete soon.

Mr. Warnick received a BA magna cum laude from Brigham Young University and his JD from George Washington University with honors.

Roy O. Williams is a pioneer in the art of assisting high net worth families to meet the challenges of succession and the transference of wealth from one generation to the next. He is in charge of the professional practice at The Williams Group, which he founded.

In their books, “Preparing Heirs”, and “Philanthropy, Heirs & Values” co-authored with Vic Preisser, Roy offers a common sense guide not only for wealthy families, but also for those who simply have assets to hand down.  Roy and Vic are completing their latest book, entitled “Estate Planning for the Post Transition Period”.  Roy is the author of two earlier books, “Preparing Your Family to Manage Wealth” and “For Love and Money”. 

Roy previously served on the board of columnists for “The Business Week Newsletter for Family Owned Business”.  He has completed three courses at Harvard Law School – Advanced Estate Planning, Advanced Partnership Taxation, and Advanced Taxation in Divorce – and he regularly attends the University of Southern California Tax Institute, the Miami Tax Institute and the Practicing Law Institute of Texas.  He has spoken before The House of Lords in London, and been quoted in The International Herald Tribune and The Financial Times regarding his work in the wealth-transfer field.

In conjunction with Professor Michael Morris of the Miami of Ohio School of Business, Roy completed the largest research project to date on family wealth-transfers, studying 3,250 families. In 1994, he was awarded a Doctorate (honoris causae) by the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), the largest graduate school of professional psychology in the nation.  The honor was given in recognition of Roy’s 30 years consulting with families on the crucial role of trust and communication in a successful family business and the transfer of wealth

Roy served in the Navy, as a Marine corpsman.  After starting his own family while in college, he gave up his dream of becoming a doctor and graduated from the University of Pacific in 1963.  He played tackle for the San Francisco 49ers until a serious injury forced him to retire from football.  Roy and his wife, Diana, have been married for 45 years and have three sons and eight grandchildren.