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Darren is a qualified Financial Adviser and Life and Business Coach with over 18 years experience. He holds a Diploma of Financial Planning from The Deakin University in Victoria Australia and a Certificate 4 in Life Coaching from the Life Coaching Institute of Australia (LCIA). Darren is currently employed as a Financial Planner with Ord Minnett in Sydney, Australia.

Darren has always had a passion for adventure from a young age. At just 5 years old, he was seen jumping off the 10 metre diving board. What developed at a young age was a leap of faith attitude that saw him seek out an adventurous career path by enlisting into the Australian Army at age 17. After his initial basic soldier training, his first posting was to the 3rd Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), which is Australia’s elite airborne infantry battalion. After serving 4 years as a Paratrooper, injury forced him to transfer to Army logistics. After serving nearly 7 years, he discharged from the Army after completing his Diploma in Financial Planning.

Darren was a retail financial planner for over 9 years before launching and developing as Managing Director and major shareholder, the Financial Planning Group, Financial Planning Services Australia. FPSA went on to grow to more than 30 offices, managed over a billion dollars of client investments and ranked in the top 50 largest Financial Planning companies in Australia. He sold his interest in FPSA in March 2008.

Darren’s other passion outside business is health and fitness. Darren over the years has encountered trial and error as well as experimented with different weight loss and fitness training methods. His determination allowed him to overcome his own weight problem. After losing balance in his own life, Darren weighed over 105kg, which was nearly 30kg over his recommended weigh range. Over a couple of years, he lost over 30kg, and these days he has a training and fitness routine combined with healthy lifestyle and nutritional habits which allows him to retain his 70-75kg target weight range.

The design of Darren’s current training and fitness program is to improve his overall cardio fitness, as well as to increase his VO2 max. This firsthand personal experience and knowledge has allowed him to refine methods of fitness training to ensure his results are maintained, not just in the short-term, but in the long-term.

Darren believes the ultimate success of whether we achieve what we want in life or business is determined by our passion, determination and mindset. Darren has overcome many of his own fears and challenges in life to move forward in his business career and adventure pursuits. Darren has an unwavering determination to pursue personal growth and higher performance in his life. This same determination is transferred to his business career.

“The biggest single mistake in life is not becoming the person or the business that we are capable of becoming”. Darren Wise.

“Our life is painted by our thoughts…..so become Michelangelo”. Corporatemonk