Managing Your Practice
Dimensional Fund Advisors
Managing Your Practice is dedicated to providing financial professionals with best practices in key areas such as driving growth, business efficiency, and the client experience. Dimensional Fund Advisors delivers insights based on our history of industry-leading financial advisor benchmark studies and client surveys. We help advisors leverage those insights when making the critical business decisions successful firms face every day.
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Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Oct 19, 2022 • 46min
The Five Values That Took an NBA Star from the Basketball Court to the US Senate and Beyond
Senator Bill Bradley is a former professional basketball player, Olympic gold medalist, three-term US Senator, and author of seven books. He shares personal and professional stories on the driving factors and experiences that led him to success. Dimensional's Catherine Williams leads the discussion on the values Bradley has emphasized throughout his career and how financial advisors can implement those same values to help build a successful team and business.
Sep 21, 2022 • 49min
How Advisors Can Follow the Shift in Wealth and Serve Multigenerational Clients
Chip Roame, founder and managing partner of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, joins Dimensional's Catherine Williams to discuss the shift in wealth from Baby Boomers to Gen X and Millennials. They will cover steps advisory practices can take today to meet the needs of younger investors and win them as long-term clients.
Aug 24, 2022 • 52min
COO Roundtable: Investing in the Future of Your Firm through Your People
Carrie Delgott, Kate Juelfs, and Robert Bowers, three chief operating officers (COOs) from thriving advisory firms, join Catherine Williams to discuss the impact that clarity and flexibility in career pathing and recruiting can have on the employee experience, and why it matters to your business. (Recorded April 22, 2022.)
Aug 3, 2022 • 28min
What's on Dimensional's Summer Reading List?
We welcome our very own Lisa Dallmer, COO, and David Jones, Former Head of UK and Ireland Advisor Group, to share their favorite reads, provide personal and professional-development book recommendations, and discuss the impact that reading has had on their careers in financial services and their personal lives. See these books and more on Dimensional's full 2022 summer reading list here.
Jun 22, 2022 • 51min
Building a Better Advisory Practice Through Diversity and Inclusion
Kamila Elliott, board chair of the CFP board and CEO and founder of Collective Wealth Partners, and Kara Duckworth, managing director of client experience at Mercer Advisors, join Dimensional's Catherine Williams to discuss how their firms are approaching diversity and what it means to not only serve women and other underrepresented investor clients, but also the importance of building a more diverse pool of candidates for financial services professions.
May 18, 2022 • 48min
The Five-Step Framework for Growing Your Business Through Deliberate Practice
Craig Wortmann, CEO of Sales Engine and a clinical professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, discusses how top-performing firms may emulate the way elite athletes or musicians enhance performance through deliberate practice. He shares a five-step framework built on purposeful action that may help you become more effective in your role as a financial advisor and business leader.
Apr 20, 2022 • 40min
Connecting the Dots: How to Drive Growth Through Your Culture, People, and Client Experience
Investing early in the next generation of leaders may be the key to your firm's longevity, but it can be difficult to balance short-term revenue and profit objectives with long-term business goals. Cameron Passmore, portfolio manager and executive chairman of PWL Capital in Canada, shares from more than 20 years of experience in creating a culture that focuses on both ambition and humility, and emphasizes investing in and developing employees as an integral part of the long-term business plan.
Mar 22, 2022 • 42min
System & Soul: Why Your Practice Needs Both to Thrive
As a business leader are you focused on the systems or the soul side of your practice? Are you building a team that focuses on both? Benj Miller, co-founder of the business operating framework System & Soul, joins Dimensional's Catherine Williams to share the six key elements leaders can focus on to support client satisfaction, employee development, and growth in their business. Learn more in Miller's book The Clarity Field Guide, available at www.clarityfieldguide.com.
Feb 15, 2022 • 44min
Why Leveraging Technology in Your Advisory Firm Has Never Been More Important
As the world becomes more comfortable with rapid technology advancements, has your firm considered how the client experience is changing as a result? With seemingly endless options, how do you know where to make investments that have a lasting impact? Doug Fritz, CEO of F2 Strategy, joins Catherine Williams, Dimensional's Head of Practice Management, to discuss areas of technology advisors should consider to support firm growth, and how to determine which ones best fit your unique business needs.
Jan 19, 2022 • 46min
Tips for Navigating the Compliance and Regulatory Landscape in 2022
Compliance plays a critical role in financial services, but keeping up with regulations from the SEC, FINRA, and individual states can be overwhelming. How do you ensure that you're interpreting them correctly? Do you have processes in place to protect your clients and team? Are you prepared if you get audited? Leila Shaver, founder of My RIA Lawyer, joins Catherine Williams, Dimensional's Head of Practice Management, to discuss compliance concerns and regulatory changes you can prepare for now.
