Founding General Track
15 Seats. One Founding Cohort. No Second Chances.
Aura Advisory Program is selecting 15 individuals to build the founding leadership team of a private advisory practice in the Lower Mainland. This is not a job posting. This is a closed-door invitation.
Applications close May 1, 2026
What You're Building Toward
Your Own Business Unit
Lead a team of five associates inside a structured advisory practice. You set the pace, enforce the standards, and own the outcomes of your unit.
Uncapped Earning Trajectory
No salary caps. No income ceilings. Your compensation is tied directly to the value you create and the team you build. Top performers write their own numbers.
Founding Cohort Status
Your name is permanently tied to the origin of this firm. As the practice scales, Founding Generals hold a position that can never be replicated or replaced.
A Real Advisory Practice
Serve Canadian families, professionals, and business owners through protection-based financial planning. Build a client base that pays you year after year.
Why I Built This
I spent years inside the financial services industry and watched the same pattern destroy good people. Talented individuals would get recruited into a firm, receive little to no real training, get handed a phone and a script, and told to figure it out. Most didn't last 90 days. The ones who survived learned through pure trial and error — burning through their warm market, their confidence, and eventually their savings.
I watched it happen dozens of times. Good people, wrong system. And every time, the person got blamed for the system's failure. That bothered me more than anything else in this industry.
I decided that if I was going to build something, it would fix the three things every other model gets wrong: the training would be structured and intensive — not a PDF and a prayer. The mentorship would be direct and daily — not a group chat nobody reads. And the standards would be non-negotiable from day one — because lowering the bar to keep people comfortable is how mediocre firms stay mediocre.
This program doesn't produce average advisors. It produces leaders who can build and run their own teams. If you're reading this, it's because I think you might have what it takes. But I don't know yet. That's what the selection process is for.
The Program
90-Day Immersive Training
Weekday licensing preparation and professional development. Weekend in-person leadership bootcamps hosted by firm leadership. This is not a webinar series — it's a full-time commitment with no field production pressure during the training period.
Licensing Pathway
Getting licensed in financial services involves standard regulatory steps — your course enrollment, your provincial exams, your license registration. These costs come up naturally throughout the 90-day program and you cover them as they arise. Every 30 days, costs are reimbursed based on successful completion of licensing benchmarks and training attendance. These are not program fees. They are standard licensing costs — and we return them as you hit your milestones.
Conditional Monthly Performance Support
During the training period, the firm provides conditional monthly support — tied to weekly standards including attendance, module completion, and licensing milestones. Hit the standards, the support continues. This is the firm's investment in your development as a leader, not a salary.
Accelerated Contract Tier
Founding Generals who complete the program start at a higher contract level than standard entry — above what new agents receive through the regular onboarding process. The 90-day investment earns you a structural advantage from day one of production.
Your Own 5-Person Team + Override Income
Upon completing the program, you are assigned a team of five associates to lead, train, and develop. You earn override income on every policy your team closes. The real economics are in building your team — not solo production.
Direct Mentorship From Firm Leadership
Not a group email chain. Not a chatbot. Direct, personal access to the founder and senior leadership throughout the program. Weekly performance reviews. Real-time coaching on live situations.
Fast-Track Advancement
Founding Generals who exceed expectations are first in line for expanded leadership roles as the firm grows. The contract tiers keep going up as you and your team produce. The ceiling is the one you set.
A question you're probably asking:
"What do I earn during the 90-day training period?"
This is not a commission-only program where you grind through training on blind faith. The firm provides conditional monthly performance support during the ramp-up period — tied to weekly standards: attendance, module completion, licensing milestones, and assignment benchmarks. Hit the standards, the support continues. Miss them consistently, you're removed from the program.
The exact amount is discussed at the screening stage — because this conversation is a two-way evaluation, and we want to have it with people who've already decided they're serious.
What you need to know at this stage: financial friction during training is not a reason to self-select out. We've built this program so that the right person doesn't have to choose between building something real and covering their obligations.
Traditional Path vs. Aura
Why This Cohort Is Unlike Anything Coming After It
The Founding Generals cohort is not a marketing term. It is a structural designation.
After this cohort completes the 90-day program, the model shifts permanently. Future personnel join as recruits under Generals — not as Generals themselves. There is no second entry point to the leadership layer. The 15 people selected in this sprint will be the founding infrastructure of everything built after.
The conditional monthly performance support is exclusive to this cohort. Future cohorts will not receive it.
The Founding General contract tier is set above standard entry for the life of the contract.
The override structure assigned to Founding Generals is fixed at the time of offer.
This window opens once. 15 spots. Screening begins April 13, 2026.
A Different Model. By Design.
Most financial firms hire advisors into a salary-plus-commission structure that keeps them dependent and replaceable. We took a different approach.
Our model invests in you during training and rewards performance after. It's backed by a national platform with over 50 years in the industry. During the 90-day program, you receive conditional support while you build. After you're licensed, your income is tied directly to what you and your team produce.
During screening, we walk you through exactly how the structure works, what you'll earn, and why we designed it this way.
This isn't something we hide — it's something we're proud of.
This Is Not For Everyone
Do not apply if any of the following describe you:
- You are looking for a salaried position with predictable hours and no performance accountability.
- You are uncomfortable being measured weekly and having your results displayed in front of your peers.
- You avoid difficult conversations, confrontation, or giving direct feedback to people you lead.
- You have a pattern of starting things and quitting when the difficulty increases.
- You are unwilling to commit your weekdays and weekends from May through August 2026 to an intensive training program.
Requirements
- You must be eligible and willing to obtain your provincial financial services license during the 90-day program. Licensing is required before production begins.
- Full schedule availability from May 10, 2026 through August 2026
- Weekdays for licensing and professional development, weekends for in-person leadership bootcamps
- Located in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia
- Eligible to work full-time in Canada with no restrictions (Canadian citizen or permanent resident)
- Must have a vehicle and be fully mobile
- Demonstrated coachability — you take direction, apply it, and report results without ego
- Leadership temperament — people naturally follow you, and you hold yourself to a higher standard
- Clean professional background
- Willingness to be measured publicly and removed if you do not meet standards
What Happens After You Apply
Application Reviewed
We review every application within 48 hours. We're looking for indicators of leadership, financial industry interest or experience, and coachability.
Confidential Screening Call
If your application advances, you'll receive a screening call with a program director. This is where the full offer is disclosed — including the exact monthly performance support amount, contract tier details, and the specific pod structure you'd be leading. The screening is a two-way conversation. You'll have every detail you need to make a decision.
Group Interview
Observed group exercise with other shortlisted candidates. We're evaluating how you communicate, how you lead under pressure, and how you show up when it counts.
Final 1-on-1 Interview
With firm leadership — the last step before a conditional offer. This conversation is direct, and it covers your commitment, your financial expectations, and your readiness to start.
Conditional Offer or Respectful Decline
After the final interview, we either extend a formal invitation to the Founding Generals cohort or close your file with full transparency about why. No ghosting. No runaround.
Your Future
Twelve months from now, you are not looking for your next opportunity. You are the opportunity someone else found.
Day one of production, you have five agents you trained, placed, and know by name. By month six, some of those five are building their own teams inside your unit. You're running the weekly calls, reviewing production numbers, watching your override income grow as the operation underneath you scales. By month twelve, you're running a distribution unit — thirty, fifty licensed agents and growing — operating on proprietary systems and workflows that most firms won't adopt for another decade.
You don't pitch products. You build distribution.
Ten years from now, when people ask how one of the most modern financial distribution operations in North America was built — this cohort is where that story starts. These fifteen seats are the founding infrastructure.
That's not ambition for its own sake. That's what this track is actually designed to produce.
15 seats. When the cohort is full, this page comes down.
Applications close May 1, 2026. 15 seats only.
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