Modern Financial Philosophy
Look... for twenty years I sat inside the financial system — as a Director at all four Big 4 firms and later at a global technology company. I watched smart, successful people make the same financial mistakes over and over. Not because they lacked intelligence. Because nobody had ever explained how money actually works... or why our minds are wired to work against us.
That is what I talk about. Finance and the psychology behind every decision we make with money. No jargon. No gatekeeping. The education that school never gave us.
Keynotes, podcast conversations, panels, guest writing, workshops and consulting focused on personal finance, behavioural finance and financial psychology.
Look... schools teach us history, mathematics and literature. They do not teach us how money actually works. This talk breaks down the gap between what most people believe about money and what the financial system actually rewards — with real numbers, real stories and a framework anyone can apply immediately.
Nobel Prize-winning research shows that humans are not rational about money. Loss aversion, mental accounting, herd mentality, the sunk cost fallacy — these are not personal failures. They are universal human tendencies. This talk explains the science behind them and the systems that protect you from your own psychology.
Most people define financial freedom as a specific number in a bank account. That definition keeps them on a treadmill that never ends. This talk explores what financial freedom actually looks like — the point at which money stops being the reason you make decisions — and the practical path to reaching it regardless of income level.
Two decades as a Director inside the world's largest consulting and technology firms — watching the gap between what ordinary people understand about money and what the financial system actually rewards grow wider every year. This is the talk Mike wishes he had heard at 25. Raw, personal, and built on real experience rather than theory.
45–60 minute keynote presentations for conferences, corporate events, financial institutions and universities. Available in-person and virtually.
Long-form podcast conversations on personal finance, behavioural economics, wealth psychology and the Modern Financial Philosophy framework.
Panel discussions, media appearances, interviews and commentary on personal finance, investing psychology and financial education.
Original articles and essays on personal finance, behavioural finance and financial psychology for publications, platforms and company blogs.
Interactive half-day or full-day workshops on financial literacy and money psychology for corporate teams, HR departments and employee wellbeing programmes.
Strategic advisory for organisations building financial education content, employee financial wellness programmes or audience-first finance brands.
All speaking enquiries can be sent directly to Mike.
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