Carl Richards is a Certified Financial Planner™ and creator of the Sketch Guy column, which appeared weekly for a decade in The New York Times.
Carl has also been featured on Marketplace Money, Oprah.com, and Forbes.com. In addition, Carl has become a frequent keynote speaker at financial planning conferences and visual learning events around the world.
Through his simple sketches, Carl makes complex financial concepts easy to understand. His sketches also serve as the foundation for his two books, The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money and The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money (Portfolio/Penguin).
His sketches have appeared in a solo show at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, as well as other showings at Parsons School of Design in New York City, The Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, and an exhibit at the Mansion House in London.
His commissioned work is on display in businesses and educational institutions across the globe.
Carl also founded The Society of Advice. Every month, Members of The Society of Advice join Carl in a 90-minute private conversation with a knock-your-socks-off guest.
If you like Carl’s work, you may love 50 Fires: A Podcast About Money and Meaning, featuring frank, funny, and often difficult conversations about money that actually matter with guests from all walks of life.
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