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, 2023-2024
  • 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

We’ve got some exciting news to share: Affirm Wealth Advisors has been named to the 2024 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams list. All of us at Affirm Wealth Advisors couldn’t be prouder, as this achievement reflects our shared commitment to making a difference in our clients’ lives through a truly personalized experience. A sincere thank you to our clients for your continued trust and to Forbes for the recognition.