Financial Advisor & Trainer
Gary Sinderbrand Biography
For over 35 years, Gary Sinderbrand of Sinderbrand Training had maintained a multi-million-dollar book of business at Merrill Lynch, UBS and WFA. During his time at Merrill, Gary co-created a Training Program that focused almost exclusively on process, not product. Known at ML as the Payne Sinderbrand Program, it ran for close to 12 years and was presented to over 12,000 Merrill Financial Advisors. The program was presented over a 2-month period beginning with 2 full days of face to face delivery to groups of 50-75 FAs who would travel to Merrill’s Princeton Campus. Concepts learned in the Program were re-enforced with a 30-day smaller group follow up, leading to a one on one coaching call 30 days later. Many Merrill FA’s came through the program multiple times.
In 1999, Gary, along with 2 partners co-founded PSB Training which allowed him to expand his message to FA’s at other major firms. PSB struck deals with 4 major Investment Companies to sponsor their Programs at major Broker Dealers allowing the training to be delivered to thousands more Advisors.
In 2001, Gary returned to the role of full-time producer, rejoining his former partner and rebuilt his Advisory business, exceeding his previous production levels within 24 months.
In 2013, Gary stepped away from his FA role to found a start-up based on a concept he developed as the Chairman of a healthcare non-profit. In the Spring of 2019, he sold this venture and began exploring his next chapter.
After spending considerable time reflecting on his 35-year career as an Advisor as well as one of the top speakers and trainers in the industry, he realized the following: a) There are many outstanding Financial Advisors in both the BD and RIA space. b) There are many outstanding “professional” speakers that present to FAs, who have little or no experience as actual producers. c) There are few, if any outstanding speakers that also have been multi-million-dollar producers-and most importantly, can explain in plain language, how they built and managed their book of business in such a way that allowed for them to maintain excellence in both.
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Gary Sinderbrand Speaking Topics
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Dial-for-Dollars to AI-Powered Connections: How Anyone Can Use AI to Solve Real Problems
After training 12,000+ financial advisors at Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Morgan Stanley, Gary Sinderbrand watched a brutal pattern repeat: 80% of new advisors fail because cold outreach to strangers is a broken system. Instead of accepting this, Sinderbrand asked a different question: What if AI could identify who they SHOULD be talking to—people psychologically wired to connect with them?
That question led Sinderbrand to build The Rainmaker App, combining Jungian psychological archetypes with AI to transform prospecting from a numbers game into a matching system. Response rates jumped from 2–3% to 25–40%.
But here’s what audiences really take away: You don’t need to be a programmer to build AI solutions. You need a real problem, the courage to ask better questions, and the willingness to learn in public.
Attendee Results:
- Learn the 5-step framework for identifying problems AI can actually solve (not everything needs AI—most things don’t)
- Understand how to translate domain expertise into AI-powered innovation without writing code
- Discover how psychological intelligence and pattern recognition can transform relationship-based businesses
- Walk away with practical tools to evaluate AI opportunities in their own industry
- Hear the unfiltered story of what actually works (and what failed spectacularly) when a non-technical founder builds AI products
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The Reinvention Imperative: Why Your Fifth Act Might Be Your Best
At 25, Gary Sinderbrand was a financial advisor. At 57, Sinderbrand pivoted to biotech, developing machine learning systems to optimize chronic disease treatments (US Patent #9,202,066). At 63, Sinderbrand returned to financial services as a consultant and coach. Now Sinderbrand is launching an AI startup that could revolutionize professional prospecting.
Most people think reinvention is for the young. They’re wrong.
Sinderbrand’s decades of pattern recognition, battle scars, network, and understanding of how humans actually make decisions—these aren’t relics of the past. They’re unfair advantages waiting to be deployed.
Through hosting the podcast, “If The Public Only Knew” and interviewing entrepreneurs who’ve navigated their own reinventions—from CEOs who rebuilt after overdoses to founders who sold companies to Coca-Cola then bought them back—Sinderbrand discovered the common thread: his breaking point was his breakthrough waiting to happen.
Attendee Results:
- Understand why experience compounds rather than expires—and how to leverage accumulated wisdom
- Learn the psychological barriers that keep accomplished professionals stuck (and how to break through)
- Discover the 3 questions that reveal whether it’s time for evolution or revolution in their career
- Hear real stories of entrepreneurs who transformed their deepest struggles into their greatest innovations
- Walk away with a framework for evaluating whether their “crazy idea” is actually their calling
Gary Sinderbrand Videos
The Rainmaker App: Psychological Matching Meets Professional Prospecting
13 questions. 3 minutes. That's all it takes to map how a financial advisor actually thinks, communicates, makes decisions, and builds...
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Gary Sinderbrand is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Dial-for-Dollars to AI-Powered Connections: How Anyone Can Use AI to Solve Real Problems, The Reinvention Imperative: Why Your Fifth Act Might Be Your Best, Psychological Intelligence: The Missing Layer in AI and Sales, Behind Every Success: What 50+ Entrepreneur Interviews Taught Me About Failure, The Experience Gap: Navigating the Great Wealth Management Knowledge Transfer and Is Your Financial Future Ready for the Next Generation of Advisors?. The estimated speaking fee range to book Gary Sinderbrand for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Gary Sinderbrand generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Don Peppers, Mike Walsh, Terry Jones, R "Ray" Wang and Geoffrey Moore. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Gary Sinderbrand for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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