Hello and welcome to the Foundation for Fiduciary Education. I’m excited to have you here! As an IRS approved, 501(c)(3) NonProfit Organization, our mission is to educate and empower families through comprehensive fiduciary financial education. We are pleased to provide you with financial education and resources you can trust . Taught exclusively by Certified Financial Fiduciaries®. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to helping you in any way I can.

Mr. Leonard E. Parson is the Founder & President of CLP Financial Group Inc.  With over three decades of experience in retirement planning, he has assisted thousands of clients in securing their financial future.  This Norfolk native is a 1967 graduate of Booker T. Washington High School.  He furthered his academic studies and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1972 from Norfolk State University.  Mr. Parson is known to the community as a business man with a heart for the people.  During the early 1980s, as the President of Quality Food Stores, he was noted as one of the largest employers of African Americans in the Peninsula.  During his time in the Newport News area, he sponsored one of the largest feeding programs for the elderly.  He also was instrumental in securing the first swimming pool for the Boys & Girls Club in the Peninsula. In the 1990s, he was the Regional Marketing Director for National College Funding Services.  Under his leadership, the Hampton Roads area was the #1 region in the company to provide funding for students to attend college. For the last several years, as the President of CLP Financial Group Inc., he has used his holiday celebrations for his clients to raise tens of thousands of dollars for charity, notably, the Southeastern VA Food Bank, the US Marines Toys for Tots and the Southside Boys and Girls Club in Norfolk, VA.  To date, he is noted as the largest ongoing independent business donor for the Southside Boys and Girls Club.  Mr. Parson was the first in his family to graduate from college.  Therefore, in the spirit of fostering a pathway to success through education, for the last several years, CLP has given over $30,000 in scholarships to high school seniors in the Hampton Roads area to assist with furthering their college education.  Mr. Parson has received national and international recognition for his work in the area of retirement planning.  However, his most cherished awards were being honored as an Impacting Lives Honoree for the New Journal and Guide and as a Distinguished Alumni for the Norfolk Education Foundation.  Mr. Parson is a health and fitness enthusiast.  He has worked out with the same group of friends at the YMCA Mount Trashmore for over 30 years.  He has been married for over 38 years to his wonderful wife Sandra and is the proud father of two children, Kyleah and Kyle.