Leanna Haakons

Leanna Haakons has been working in the capital markets her entire professional career, gaining securities licensing and expertise throughout various fields of global finance and investments living and working in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Europe, and now as a business development and marketing expert helping global asset managers, portfolio companies, service providers to target, develop, and serve their network of clients, investors, and partners.

Leanna founded Black Hawk Financial in 2014 to serve her international client-base and has helped facilitate transactions alongside multi-billion-dollar funds, private and public companies, and a top-tier network of family offices and sovereign wealth funds.

Her 2018 bestselling financial literacy book,  “Young, Fun, and Financially Free”, helped establish Leanna as a trusted expert and contributor to hundreds of media outlets, podcasts, and national networks including CNBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, NBC, and ABC, among others. 

Leanna is a Harvard educated journalist and frequent moderator, host and panelist at high-profile global conferences and gatherings on the economy, investing, crypto, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, professional athletes, millennials and money, and personal finance.