Pride LGBTQ+ Financial Advisor Community 

Are you looking for meaningful ways to serve an evolving client base? Join a strong, diverse community of LGBTQ+ financial advisors at LPL Financial. Through resources and support, you’ll amplify your ability to deliver personalized advice and engage investors.

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Enriching Experiences for LGBTQ+ Financial Advisors 

LPL’s Pride Advisor Community provides LGBTQ+ financial advisors a tailored space for networking, sharing best practices, and business growth. Here, you’re empowered with the resources, technology. and flexibility needed to help make a positive impact in the lives of your clients while managing your perfect financial practice – your way. 

The Driving Power of Community

At LPL Financial, our goals remain consistent: To build and sustain community and embrace all advisor segments.


Connect

Collaborate with peers and exchange insights to enhance your business.

  • Join inclusive in-person and virtual events to gain insights from LGBTQ+ colleagues and contribute your unique perspective
  • Attend sponsored conferences to network with Pride peers and leaders across the industry

Grow

Achieve sustained growth through industry-leading initiatives and training. 

  • Access sales, marketing, and educational materials to connect with a wide range of investors
  • Enhance your professional growth through continuous development opportunities

Attract

We’re thoughtfully growing our advisor communities. You’ll find us:

  • Addressing evolving demographics by aligning financial advisors with America's broad investor base
  • Collaborating firm-wide to strategically leverage our advisor community, so that it can meet clients’ needs

Champion support and belonging

Discover partnerships that drive positive outcomes for you and other advisors.

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Advisor Inclusion Council

Leverage the advocacy of this group of representatives – including LGBTQ+ advisors – from financial advisor firms and institutions. The Advisor Inclusion Council engages with LPL Home Office leaders on topics of representation, current events, and business support needs.

 

Representing different backgrounds and experiences, as well as business size, career length, location, and LPL business models, they devote their time and passion to making progress toward LPL's vision to champion all financial advisors.

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LPL Community Hub

Maximize peer networks to build relationships, discover opportunities, and achieve goals. The LPL Community Hub brings together advisors, admins, and office support staff to network, share best practices, and learn.

 

Members have shared the powerful connection of these groups and how they contribute to long-term business outcomes for LGBTQ+ advisors.

"As an independent, gay advisor who is very active within our local LGBTQ+ professional and non-profit communities, it’s important to be affiliated with a firm that walks the walk. LPL has consistently received a perfect 100% score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index 2023-2024, an annual national benchmarking survey measuring corporate policies and practices. Showing this commitment helps send a critical message to our existing and future clients."

Jeremy Gussick, MBA, CFP®

Gussick and Barnett Financial Planning

Connection. Development. Growth.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Equality 100 Award

LPL received a score of 100% for the fifth consecutive year in the Foundation’s 2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) 2023-2024, measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.1

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Disclosures

  1. 2023-2024 CEI report is available online at Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index

The views and opinions expressed by LPL Financial Advisor(s) may not be representative of the views of other Financial Advisors and are not indicative of future performance or success. 

Throughout this communication, the terms “financial advisors” and “advisors” include registered representatives and/or investment adviser representatives affiliated with LPL Financial LLC, an SEC registered broker-dealer and investment adviser.

Advisor firms mentioned and LPL Financial are separate entities.

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