Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Dr. Christina Lynn. Christina Lynn, Ph.D., CFP®, AFC®, CDFA®, is a wealth management consultant specializing in the psychology of financial planning, divorce finances, estate planning, and digital assets. Her approach to financial planning is holistic and evidence-based, with a strong emphasis on life planning and innovation. One of her passion projects involves leveraging Motivational Interviewing to enhance the work of wealth advisors. Christina earned her doctorate in personal financial planning from Kansas State University. Her work has been published in the Journal of Financial Planning and Counseling and the Journal of Financial Planning. In addition to her consulting work, Christina is an aspiring author, focusing on raising financially savvy kids.

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Adam Tolliver. Adam Tolliver is a Partner Financial Advisor at Artisan Financial Strategies. He approaches each engagement with a strong commitment to helping clients achieve financial security for themselves and their families. When meeting Adam for the first time, clients quickly sense his deeply held belief that the keys to generations of wealth and financial security can realistically lie in just a handful of critical conversations that people have not yet had with their loved ones. With previous professional experience in personal banking, Adam holds a Bachelor of Science from Florida State University. (Interesting fact: his second cousin was the first African-American undergraduate student at the same university.) Adam is a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and has already earned an impressive collection of professional awards: 2016 Career Life Success Award; 2016 Career Life Producer Award; 2017 Agency Builder of The Year, Greater Atlanta; and Executive Council Member in 2017-2020 and MDRT Member 2021. Adam brings the same passion and energy to community leadership roles as he displays in his professional pursuits, serving as Chair of Atlanta Smart Academy School Board and Vice President of The Vision Foundation. He also holds memberships in the Atlanta Business League and Urban League of Young Professionals. Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, Adam makes his home in Southwest Atlanta. Like any true Southerner, he relishes a good peach cobbler whenever he can. Adam is a talented writer and artist in addition to his professional skill set and enjoys movies, drawing, poetry, and spirited debates. Don’t get him started on college sports though – for Adam, it’s Noles all the way!

This week on Standard Deviations, Dr. Daniel Crosby shares an unreleased essay from his new book, The Soul of Wealth. Educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities, Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations understand the intersection of mind and markets. Dr. Crosby's first book, Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, The Laws of Wealth, was named the best investment book of 2017 by the Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and German. His latest work, The Behavioral Investor, is an in-depth look at how sociology, psychology and neurology all impact investment decision-making. Daniel was named one of the “12 Thinkers to Watch” by Monster.com, a “Financial Blogger You Should Be Reading” by AARP and a member of InvestmentNews prestigious "40 Under 40". When he is not consulting around market psychology, Daniel enjoys independent films, fanatically following St. Louis Cardinals baseball, and spending time with his wife and three children.

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Michael Finke. Michael Finke, PhD, CFP® is a professor of wealth management and Frank M. Engle Distinguished Chair in Economic Security at The American College of Financial Services. He received a doctorate in consumer economics from the Ohio State University in 1998 and in finance from the University of Missouri in 2011. He leads the O. Alfred Granum Center for Financial Security at the American College and is a research fellow at the Retirement Income Institute, and a member of the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association Academic Advisory Council. He also serves on the board of the Puerto Rico Pension Reserve Trust. He is a nationally known researcher in the areas of retirement income planning, retirement spending, life satisfaction and cognitive aging. He is a frequent speaker at financial planning conferences and was named one of the 25 most influential people in the field of investment advising in 2020 and 2021 by Investment Advisor Magazine.

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Greg Davies, Head of Behavioral Finance at Oxford Risk. Greg is a specialist in applied behavioral finance, decision science, impact investing and financial well being. He founded the banking world’s first behavioral finance team at Barclays in 2006, which he led for a decade. In 2017 he joined Oxford Risk to lead the development of behavioral decision support software to help people make the best possible financial decisions. Greg holds a PhD in Behavioral Decision Theory from Cambridge; has held academic affiliations at UCL, Imperial College and Oxford; and is author of Behavioral Investment Management.