Cassandra Laymon is the President of Beacon Wealth Consultants and Director of Institutional Sales for LightPoint Portfolios. Cassandra holds a Master’s Degree in Adult Education and an MBA, both from Rutgers University. She is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® and a Certified Kingdom Advisor®. She is a dynamic public speaker and has presented at national conferences for the C12 Group and Kingdom Advisors. For five years she led the Biblically Responsible Investing special interest group for financial professionals who are members of Kingdom Advisors.
As a former health care executive, she previously managed Education and Organizational Development for a 5,000 employee health care system where her responsibilities included all aspects of employee education, team and leadership development, strategic planning and meeting design and facilitation.
Cassandra partners with business owners and churches as a Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor to better understand their company retirement plans, to make them as efficient and cost effective as possible, and to help financial advisors and business owners to better understand their fiduciary responsibilities for their 401(k) and 403(b) plans.
Cassie and her husband, Rick (our CEO) married and merged their financial advisory businesses together in 2012. They enjoy collaborating on the business, traveling, theatre, sharing books and spending time with their three children – Sam, Bethany and Carson. Cassie also has a passion for sewing and volunteers in the costume shop at Mill Mountain Theater, professional theater located in the Roanoke Valley.
Cassie is the author of two books, "I Found Jesus in the Stock Market" and “The Retirement Game for Nurses.”