This course is about you and your future....with a special focus on managing money, both as a individual adult human and as a business or educational leader.

We will talk about how businesses manage money, how entrepreneurs manage money and how individuals (can) manage money. Finance is very personal....that is, the best ways to manage money depend entirely on unique personal and professional situations. Your situation is different from mine, a high school is different from Google. These differences require different plans.

I have taught separate "Wealth Management" for MBA students and "Personal Financial Planning" for EDLD students for several years. This will be the first time that we combine the classes / groups / students. We will see how it goes. Hopefully we can manage it without either group sacrificing too much. I ask for your patience and your feedback throughout the semester - please tell me what is working for you in the course and what else we could be doing for you.

That's the hopefully-not-too-long version of what the course is about. Let's have a super semester.