Diversify leadership and open possibilities
ASAFE Alliances aims to build integrity and leadership in the financial leaders of tomorrow.
Alliance of Securities and Financial Educators
ASAFE is a non-profit alliance of financial-industry experts who are regulators and practitioners that create and provide educational programs to increase and diversify access to the industry and its leadership careers.
We are so proud of our alumni.
“Over the past 18 years, ASAFE has designed and produced customized sessions of a wide-ranging scale. Fueled by participants with a contagious curiosity to develop as leaders in the securities and finance landscape, ASAFE continues to discover next generation perspectives. Contributors continue to innovate how we connect and influence the mission of growing diverse leaders and growing leaders with diverse perspectives, populating the industries that serve the investing entrepreneurial public.
This is a unique community. We have a revealing story that unfolds with each participant’s experience: student, mentor, faculty, board member, board advisor, and volunteer. We invite you to engage with our alumni, faculty, mentors, board advisors and volunteers to learn more about the ASAFE ethos and impact upon leadership of all backgrounds.”
— ASAFE Board of Directors
Unique Learning Models
The ASAFE learning model maximizes applied knowledge transfer from among high level leaders from C Suites and federal state and local regulators as faculty to diverse graduate level students. Importantly, it positions mentors from many experience levels to serve as technical experts and role models in addition to the lecturers. This unique ASAFE curriculum design crafts and curates highly interactive lectures by faculty complimented by interactive learning pods and “learning huddles” following each lecture including mentors and faculty in close-up conversations. Learners, faculty and mentors all receive training about ASAFE learning methods and how best to take advantage of each of these learning modalities.
In its earliest iterations beginning in 2003, ASAFE volunteers attended in-house law school sessions, working with instructors, administrators, and students to ensure seamless offerings hosted first at law schools in Washington, DC , and Miami, Florida. Soon thereafter, host-venues included the New York City Bar Association and leading securities law firms and investment firms in Washington, DC and Manhattan.
Our Programs
Our programs are curated, complementing course offerings of administrators and faculty of educational institutions, from elementary grades through law and other graduate schools. Financial course objectives are framed to build knowledge and familiarity, develop critical- and creative-thinking skills, emphasize leadership notes and ethical standards, generate enthusiasm, and support adjunct and in-house faculty. The overall objective is to open possibilities—fostering diverse and talented generations of leaders in domestic and international banking, finance, investment management, accounting, law, and related financial industries and professions.
Alumni Programs
Networking with top leaders in their fields of business and law is a key outcome for students who have demonstrated commitment to finance careers. We encourage and support ASAFE alumni to connect through seminars and networking events. These events benefit in the form of connections among and between students from various careers, creating the kinds of network currency that can last a professional lifetime and can be critical in the earliest years of career development.
JD and JD/MBA Candidate Seminars
ASAFE strategies introduce innovative outreach to graduate students at multiple schools simultaneously rather than at a few schools at a time. ASAFE is framing intermediate and advanced knowledge development offerings in new ways. Robust legal and business seminars hosted at bar associations and corporate or firm settings of ASAFE leaders are the new venues providing students exposure to new settings and practical application knowledge development. Teaching and student talent are being recruited and developed using ASAFE's successful teaching and learning methods, bringing together leaders in private practice at financial services firms, law firms, in-house general counsels' offices and from among state and federal regulators. Learning design is being framed around students who have demonstrated their intention to pursue careers in the securities and financial industries.
Guggenheim Teams Up to Advance Diversity and Inclusion and Launches a Unique Seminar Series
In early 2013, Guggenheim Partners and Morgan Stanley partnered with the New York City Bar Association and the Alliance of Securities and Financial Educators (ASAFE) to develop and launch a series of seminars for diverse law students. The series is designed to enhance the competitive strength of talented and diverse individuals seeking careers in the securities and finance industry as well as to increase the industry's diversity and inclusion of traditionally underrepresented groups.
