Team profile


About Us

Our Mission Statement

Everyone deserves to work with a trusted advisory team to help them feel more confident about their financial future.

Our Key Characteristics

  • Relentless
  • Learner
  • Personable

Our Values (CLEAR)

Collaboration - Our entire team works seamlessly together, leveraging each other’s strengths while partnering with other professionals to help our clients achieve their goals.

Love - We foster a culture of compassion and care, treating others as we would like to be treated, with kindness, respect, and empathy.

Excellence - We strive for the highest standards in everything we do while continually pushing ourselves to exceed expectations, grow and improve.

Accountability - We embrace Extreme Ownership, taking full responsibility for our actions and decisions, and holding each other to the highest standards of integrity and transparency.

Resilience - We see challenges and tensions as catalysts for growth and becoming stronger as we adapt, learn, and overcome adversity.

Areas of focus

  • Retirement Planning Strategies
  • Investment Management
  • Wealth Preservation Strategies
  • Executive Compensation and Benefit Strategies
  • Estate Planning Strategies
  • Family Finances
  • Intergenerational Planning
  • Saving for Education
  • Retirement Plan Distribution
  • Charitable Giving
  • Sustainable and Responsible Investing
  • Insurance
  • Cash Flow Management Strategies
  • Christian Financial Strategies
  • Tax Planning Strategies
  • Small Business

Awards & recognition

  • Affirm Wealth Advisors, Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams, 2023-2025
  • Affirm Wealth Advisors, Ameriprise Client Experience Award, 2020-2023
  • Affirm Wealth Advisors, Investment News Best Places to Work for Financial Advisors, 2024
  • Affirm Wealth Advisors, Phoenix Business Journal Best Places to Work, 2023
  • Affirm Wealth Advisors, Phoenix Business Journal Book of Lists - Investment Advisors, 2010-2023
  • Matt MacLean, Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisor, 2024
  • Matt MacLean, Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors, 2021-2024
  • Stephen Patrick Harnden, Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors, 2016-2022
  • Michael Gombrich, Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors, 2024
  • Garrett Pierce Smith, Forbes Best-in-State Next-Generation Wealth Advisors, 2023-2024

Community participation

  • Peoria Chamber of Commerce - Members
  • Clinica Esperanza, Honduras - Stephen Harnden, Board Member
  • Christ's Church of the Valley (CCV) - Matt MacLean, Member (CCV Stars Basketball and Football Coach)

Honored to be recognized in Forbes

All of us at Affirm Wealth Advisors are proud to share that our team has been included on the 2025 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams list. This list recognizes teams who excel at helping clients focus on their long-term financial goals – And we’re proud to say that is our No. 1 priority. Thank you to our clients for your loyalty and for the opportunity to continue to serve you.