Erik Mikkelson CFP®
Erik Mikkelson is the founder of RMR Wealth Advisors, LLC. As a family wealth advisor specializing in comprehensive financial planning, wealth management and family office services, Erik's goal is to enhance, utilize, preserve and protect your family's assets to meet your family's financial and lifetime desires, retirement needs and wealth preservation. As a Certified Financial PlannerTM professional, Erik selected this career to pursue his longtime passion and commitment to helping families with their vision for their financial future.
Working together with families, Erik and RMR's team work to determine clients’ financial planning needs, identify any concerns and obstacles, and explore strategies for achieving their desired results. In addition, and related to Erik’s financial background, is his experience in commercial, residential, investment, recreational and legacy real estate properties.
Erik’s reputation and values are based on always trying to “do the right thing”, with integrity, hard work, trust, and a genuine appreciation of people being at the core of his belief system. While serving families, his many years of private and corporate business experience serve him well. He has had careers in both the service and consumer products industries focused on strategic planning and project management. This very diversified background has helped prepare him to work with families and business owners dealing with complex operational, logistics, ownership, and succession planning projects. This may include assisting with the valuation, acquisition or sale of a business, complicated gifting or other wealth transfer strategies, as well as other business consultative services including due diligence coordination with specific industry, legal and taxation professionals.
Erik earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics, with a minor in Accounting from St. Olaf College (where he also played Division III college football). Prior to founding RMR Wealth Advisors, he was co-founder of Rich Mikkelson Rich Financial Advisors and before that a Vice President at Financial Planning Services, Inc.
Erik is also passionate about time with his wife Lisa and children, and their shared interests and hobbies. He and Lisa always look forward to adventures together outdoors, whether that is on a body of water or in the wilderness. Erik finds much value from time for thought, reflection and often new clarities for business and self while being quiet on the water or being in the woods. He also finds his continuously growing respect for and the pursuit of various challenges and opponents in nature one of life’s ultimate games of strategy, often finding overlapping skills required when helping others succeed in business and with their financial futures. In fact it was during one of these times in the woods that it occurred to him to pursue registering “For Your Financial Future®”, which is what drives the purpose, direction and actions of his firm while serving the families RMR is honored to have as clients.