Douglas Lynam, From Monk to Money Manager

In 2017, he hung up the robe. He came to realize that voluntary poverty was keeping him from serving the world in the ways he felt called too, so he stepped into a new chapter and joined Long View Asset Management, a sustainability-focused B Corp, eventually becoming a partner where he helps to oversee more than $250 million in assets. From vows of poverty to portfolio management—he knows life has a sense of humor. Doug Lynam, Keynote Speaker, Celebrity Coach and Best-Selling Author has lived a life wilder than a roller coaster designed by Salvador Dalí on a sugar high. He started out as a Marine then took a radical turn becoming a Benedictine monk. For twenty years, he wore the habit while simultaneously leading the mathematics department at a prestigious private school. His education at St. John’s College—the delightfully eccentric Great Books school in Santa Fe, New Mexico gave him both philosophical depth and analytical sharpness, a combination that’s guided him through every twist and transformation.