Lauren's Bio

Lauren Sigman has over 25 years of experience in personal financial planning, mortgage finance and real estate. She created Sigman Financial Fitness^® to work with people looking for individualized, creative ways to manage their financial fitness, no matter what shape they're in.

An avid skier and rock climber, Lauren's passion for the outdoors drew her to Colorado in the early '90s. Before moving to Colorado, Lauren spent 12 years in the financial industry. She was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley & Co., a financial analyst with J.W. O'Connor & Co., and Vice President of Finance for Silverstein Properties, a Forbes 400 commercial real estate developer in New York City, where she was responsible for arranging over $1 billion in financing.

Lauren is also a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, a member of the Colorado Chapter of the Financial Planning Association and an associate member of the Colorado Bar Association in the Family Law division. She earned her undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

In addition to her professional activities, Lauren is active in the community. She teaches rock climbing and is an active fundraiser for the Women's Wilderness Institute (WWI) a non–profit organization offering educational, inspirational courses in backpacking, rock climbing, mountain biking, canoeing, fly fishing and yoga. WWI's mission is to strengthen the courage, confidence and leadership skills of girls and women through the challenge and support of wilderness and community based experiences.

Lauren also serves on the board of the Professional Climbing Instructors Association ("PCIA") (www.pcia.us) The PCIA's mission is to provide technical and educational information to all levels of the instructional climbing community in an effort to nurture a flow of best practices aimed at improving the safety, quality and delivery of technical climbing instruction.