Professional Development

You have career goals, and a vision of where you want your career to go. To accomplish those goals, you’ll need determination, support and guidance.

We believe the key to our success is the strength of our network of financial professionals, so we created unique and award-winning development programs1 to help our financial professionals build a successful practice. As your career goals change with your personal growth and development, you can explore a myriad of possible career paths within The Guardian Network®.

Traits of a successful financial professional

Launching a successful financial professional career is a direct result of your ability to help people make decisions that will better their lives. This takes relationship and problem-solving skills, resiliency, and above all, the drive to build your own practice.

Do you know what being a financial professional entails?

Learn more about how rewarding a financial professional career can be, and how it may be the right one for you.

Financial Professional: Confidence Builder, problem solver, coach, friend

The Guardian Network® is a network of preferred providers authorized to offer products of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY and its subsidiaries.

Any use of the term “advisor” within this site is for marketing/recruiting purposes only and does not imply that all Guardian representatives are credentialed investment advisor representatives of Park Avenue Securities authorized to sell securities products or provide investment advisory services nor does it imply any level of expertise or knowledge. Not all Guardian advisors are credentialed to sell securities products or provide investment advisory services. Please ask your advisor regarding their individual credentials and registrations/licenses to sell securities products. Similarly, any reference within this site to “financial advisor(s)” is for marketing/recruiting purposes only and does not represent that any potential advisor recruit of Guardian shall be credentialed to sell securities products or provide investment advisory services through Park Avenue Securities.

Securities products and investment advisory services are offered and sold only by appropriately licensed entities and advisors.

1 From 2016-2023, Guardian has been named a winner of the Training APEX Awards, which ranks companies’ excellence in employer-sponsored training and development programs.