Colin Lawson founded what is now Equilibrium Financial Planning in 1995, at the age of 25, with no formal qualifications and a straightforward belief: if you genuinely make people’s lives better, the business takes care of itself.

Starting in a bedroom with no clients and no backing, he built from scratch what is now a firm valued at around £50 million, with over 1,400 clients, more than £1.4 billion under management, and multiple top 10 finishes in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For. Equilibrium Financial Planning has also just taken on private equity investment to fuel its next chapter of growth across the country.