Lawrence Ford is an author, speaker and international thought leader on conscious business, investing, and the human spirit. As founder and CEO of Conscious Capital Wealth Management he is redefining the financial advisory industry. Dubbed the “Shaman of Wall Street” by the Washington Post, The Economist Magazine referred to him as a “Man of Two Worlds”, NPR named him “The Finance Guru” and the Retirement Income Journal named him “The Spiritual Advisor”. Leveraging the power of money to help make the world a better place he started an advisory firm in 1998, that sold to a major financial company in 2000. He was appointed to the Citigroup Advisors Committee during the historic merger, he led one of the first “Robo Advisor” firms in 2001, and subsequently working with Dr. Harry Markowitz (Nobel Prize: Modern Portfolio Theory) to help democratize financial advice for retirement plan participants.
About Decade Of Women
Launched on International Women’s Day on March 8, 2018, the Decade Of Women is a worldwide solutions campaign created to celebrate, unite and exponentiate sustained action to foster bold financial commitments to fully advance the gender equity revolution and fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #5. The campaign is distinct in focusing on levering the vital power of frontier technologies across blockchain and digital assets to at last achieve economic engagement and financial independence of all women. This will require the unlocking of capital to allow frontier technologies to scale. The laser-sharp focus is on actionable, large-scale initiatives to harness the power of exponential new technology to advance the Decade Of Women. Sign their #WeUniteWe Pledge at decadeofwomen.org
About 5th Element Group
5th Element Group, PBC was born from the urgent recognition that our global economy is fundamentally out of sync with humanity’s great challenges, and is unable in its current form to deliver a different and flourishing future that serves all. Designed as a Supercluster of Quantum Innovation, 5th Element serves as a global collaboration destination with the mission to quantum leap a new worldwide web of values or “Web 3.0” to re-purpose and deploy blockchain based smart contracts and new forms of digital value exchange to exponentiate impact, decentralize collective wisdom and action, and democratize new means of innovative capital creation and delivery that will meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030; and to thereby enable a fully flourishing future for people, planet and prosperity – with no one left behind.