George Kinder

Harvard-educated George Kinder revolutionized financial advice for over 30 years by training over 3,500 professionals in 30 countries in the field of financial Life Planning. He founded the Kinder Institute of Life Planning in 2003 after 30 years as a practicing financial planner and tax advisor.

His books and trainings are all about Freedom. In his most recent book, A Golden Civilization and The Map of Mindfulness (currently available on Amazon), Kinder draws on 50 years as a mindfulness practitioner, over 30 years as a mindfulness teacher, and his experience training financial advisors globally to challenge the basic concepts of economics, our understanding of democracy, of space-time, and our own hearts. His objective is to bring greater levels of Freedom everywhere.

His three books on money, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, Lighting the Torch, and Life Planning for You, are considered by many to be the seminal works in the burgeoning field of financial Life Planning. Almost twenty years after its publication, his classic The Seven Stages of Money Maturity was again featured by the Wall Street Journal. He has written one book on mindfulness, Transforming Suffering into Wisdom, as well as a book of photography and poetry, A Song for Hana.

Kinder currently resides in Massachusetts and spends several months per year in London and Hana, Hawaii. Now living out his own Life Plan, Kinder spends much of his free time delivering speeches on Life Planning, teaching meditation classes, and working on creative projects. During his "Covid Summer," Kinder wrote and recorded an album of Protest Songs with his daughter (available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music), and has been working on his next book: a collection of poetry and photography about the present moment and inspired by time spent at his home on Spectacle Pond.