Brandon Odell is a highly experienced leader working with team-based financial advisors, and an expert in the development of advisory firms. With 20 years of experience researching and guiding advisory firms, his insights connect data with practical solutions.

As a Partner and Director of Business Consulting, Brandon leads engagements with broker-dealers and individual advisory firms on strategic planning, human capital, compensation, and equity management. He has specialized expertise in building teams within insurance broker-dealers and developing institutional programs to support teaming advisors.

In addition, Brandon contributes content and coaching to The Ensemble Practice’s G2 Leadership Institute, the company’s intensive program of business management classes for independent advisory firms. He also contributes his research expertise to the firm’s ongoing efforts to study the factors that drive growth, compensation benchmark, and utilization of equity in the advisory industry.

Prior to joining the Ensemble Practice in 2013, Brandon was a senior consultant and vice president at Envestnet | Tamarac, where he delivered practice management consulting and led the team for reporting and outsourced services. Before that, as a senior analyst at Moss Adams Business Consulting, he worked with many firms on practice management issues and concentrated on industry research and analysis.

Brandon is a CFA Charterholder and has an MBA from Thunderbird School of International Management.