About us
We're financial professionals that believe in a better way!
We're financial professionals that believe in a better way!
We work with founders that from the outside may seem to have "made it" or are "successful" but behind the scenes, may be struggling to build the stability and growth they desire. You barely pay yourself and your business has never been profitable. You have a big heart and have always wanted to help others. While you're successful in that endeavor, the only person that isn't being taken care of is you. It doesn't have to be that way because you deserve financial freedom and for your business to be financially healthy.
Traditional accounting and finance consulting misses the mark on what leaders actually need. We're profit consultants that are here to guide you, not impress you. With us, you won't find fancy words that make you feel more lost or confused. What you will find is a team that's hungry to help you achieve financial freedom and cares deeply about your well-being.
I started Root Financial in August 2018 with the hope of creating something different than what you find in the accounting and finance world. I earned my stripes at the Big 4 accounting practices, the large public corporations and even running finance departments for start-ups. Everywhere I went, the work always felt very cold and robotic for me.
I think the finance world is long overdue in bringing emotion, compassion and empathy into it and that is my goal with Root. We're all human so let's stop pretending that we're otherwise. I no longer want employees in this industry to feel undervalued or working in fear, and I never want a client partner to feel like they're just lost in the mix and that the people who run their finances, one of the most intimate things in this world, don't care about them.
Our Values
Supporting your mission, team and financial well-being are core to our mission and business practices.
We know what you're going through because we've been there ourselves. You don't have it do it alone.
Our work is intimate and we're all about being open and getting messy together.
No one has it all figured out, so we're constantly seeking to learn, improve, be better and try new things.
Everyone deserves to be respected, valued, heard and have their needs met.
Michael is an accomplished entrepreneur, practitioner, lecturer, and author. For over 12 years, he served as the founder and CEO of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with some of the world’s most influential organizations: from the ACLU, Google, Microsoft, and Nike to well-respected institutions such as The United Nations and the Obama Administration.
Alongside this work, Michael has spent more than a decade working in private practice with individuals seeking support through an indigenous medicine practice grounded in the traditions of the Nahua people.
Leigh is a noted social entrepreneur, futurist and business developer bringing a wide range of experiences in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Leigh completed the MIT Sloan School Seminar for Social Entrepreneurship and has mentored and coached its graduates growing their social enterprises.
He serves as a business development and social innovation coach with the Acumen Academy, "the world's school for change." Leigh is also the founder of Breakthrough Enterprises, the Advocate Care Network and the VisionsPathing CoLab for social innovation.
Marissa is a seasoned social impact and inclusion strategist with over 10 years of experience in spearheading and researching innovative and inclusive social impact initiatives with a focus on low-resourced communities. She is a recognized leader in capacity building, social entrepreneurship and program execution with results-orientated track record of developing strategic impactful programs for a diverse range of mission-driven stakeholders.
Dr. Chris is the clinic director of Barefoot Rehab, New Jersey's Premier Non-Surgical Chronic Pain Clinic, founded in 2010. With a well-rounded, holistic approach involving, meditation, anti-inflammatory diet, stress management, fitness, education on psychedelics, and ancestral healing, Dr. Chris & Barefoot Rehab seek to heal people left on the side of the road of conventional healthcare's system.