Issue: Spring 2017 | Posted: June 1, 2017
Robyn Hari
Distinguished Achievement in Business
Robyn Hari’s calling to work in finance is about more than helping clients decide what to do with their money. It’s about compassion for their situations.
Managing principal of the Nashville office of Diversified Trust since 2012, Hari assists individuals, families and institutions in the management of their wealth.
“I wanted to find a way to combine my accounting and finance skills with my desire to make a difference in people’s lives,” Hari says. “I have walked through some very difficult situations with people... who are left to make important financial decisions at a time when they are emotionally drained and heartbroken. I have oftentimes wished I had a double major in accounting and counseling.”
Before working at Diversified Trust, Hari began her own advisory firm in Brentwood, Tennessee, in 1995.
“I don’t really think in terms of achievement, but rather in opportunities the Lord has provided,” Hari says. “However, in hindsight, I realize that establishing my own registered investment advisory firm at the age of 30 in a very male-dominated field was not an easy task.”
Advising clients is not the only way Hari shows compassion for her community. She also serves actively at ClearView Baptist Church in Franklin, Tennessee, working with student ministry and serving on multiple committees. Hari is currently on the Board of Trustees for Union University, as well.
“To be honest, I never considered going anywhere other than Union,” Hari says. “My parents and older sister were Union graduates. I knew Union was a close-knit, Christ-centered community of people who were devoted to both a strong academic experience and spiritual growth.”
Hari met her husband, Rod, at Union and set the “strong academic foundation” that readied her for the evolving field of finance during her time there.
“Looking back,” Hari says, “the Lord used all of those experiences to prepare me for what he had planned for my life.”
