The Light Brigade offers services in three areas:

Financial and Investment Literacy Education

The Light Brigade provides seminars, workshops and other tailored solutions for individuals and organizations seeking to improve investment knowledge and confidence. Our objective is to help clients make better investment decisions and attain prosperity. We often help small investors and those who want to have better conversations with their financial advisors improve their knowledge of the investment process.  We also work with corporate executives and their human resource managers to upgrade employees’ decision-making and investment literacy skills. Research has shown that employees who feel empowered are happier and more productive. In contrast, those suffering from anxiety, including the anxiety that results from concerns about finances, are less productive.
A more complete list of potential clients includes:

• Corporate human resources departments
• Financial advisors (Registered Investment Advisors and Brokers)
• Small investors (investing alone or through financial advisors)
• Investment clubs
• Certified accountants
• Educators teaching investment literacy
• Policy makers and regulators concerned with adding financial literacy to educational curricula
• Service clubs and other organizations (for example, retirement homes, AARP, Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, and libraries) interested in investment literacy as a way to add value for their members.

Our financial literacy content is available through the Light Brigade's Anyone Can Learn site, and in a new book by our founder Yuval Bar-Or, Play to Prosper: The Small Investor's Survival Guide.

Corporate Credit Risk Assessment Solutions

The Light Brigade works with a variety of organizations seeking assistance in the identification, quantification, and mitigation of corporate credit risk exposures. Typically, clients require help in deciding which vendor products are best for them, or whether they should attempt to build their own tools instead of licensing them from third party vendors.
Decision makers we often work with include:

• Chief Risk Officers
• Chief Credit Officers
• Chief Financial Officers
• Treasurers
• Business leaders
• Policy makers and regulators charged with formulating new or revised laws applicable to financial intermediaries

Our corporate credit risk content is available through the Light Brigade's Credit Solutions Demystified site.

Management Consulting

As a management consulting company, we consult in the areas of business and risk management, strategy, decision making, leadership development, corporate credit risk, corporate turnarounds and corporate expansions. We often work with entrepreneurs, owner/managers and corporate executives.

Confidence, good judgment and decisiveness are crucial for all leaders. We help senior managers hone these skills.

In our experience, many small businesses need professional advisory services but find that traditional offerings are unaffordable. We strive to make professional and affordable services available to under-served small businesses.

We also assist corporate boards in improving their risk oversight capabilities. Our founder currently serves as Director of a private firm, where he focuses on risk identification and management issues.

Please take a look at our podcasts on the subject of corporate turnarounds, as well as the first book by our founder, Yuval Bar-Or, Leveraging People for a Corporate Turnaround.

We provide extensive material on risk, risk taking, risk management, leadership development, and decision making through our Respect Risk site.

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