Meet The Team
The Team Behind The Advisor Authority
Focused on helping advisors grow AUM, attract stronger clients, and build firms designed to scale.
Erin Botsford, CFP®
Blake Hammerton, CMSP
Mike Sbonik
Niki Clark
Mandi Moore
Makinley Cornley
Jonathan Verrano
We understand the pressures of building an advisory firm. Our team equips you with a proven framework that:
This is Why Advisors Stay
Advisors come to us because something feels stuck. Growth has slowed.
The calendar runs the week. The business leans too heavily on the founder.
They stay because the structure we teach works.
Real progress comes from stronger standards, clear roles, and disciplined execution.
- Clear standards for prospecting and closing
- Team leverage that creates capacity
- Repeatable systems that sustain growth
The Advisor Authority is the premier business-growth training company for elite financial advisors.
Founded on decades of real-world success, we’ve distilled the exact strategies used to build and sell a nine-figure advisory firm into a proven, step-by-step system that helps advisors scale with structure, speed, and results.
We’re not generalist coaching. We deliver prescriptive training built for high-performing advisors who are ready to attract bigger clients, close more business, build a scalable team, and create a business worth millions.
Everything we teach is rooted in real-world results, not theory. If you’re ready to grow beyond production and stop guessing your way to scale, you’re in the right place.