Dave Ramsey is the CEO of Lampo Group, Inc. He formed the company in 1988 to counsel folks hurting from the results of financial stress. He has paid the “stupid tax” (mistakes with dollar signs on the end) so hopefully others won’t have to. Dave wrote the book Financial Peace based on all that he and his wife Sharon had learned and began selling it out of his car. With a friend, he started a local radio call-in show called “The Money Game,” now nationally syndicated as “The Dave Ramsey Show.”
The Lampo Group’s company history is full of landmarks leading up to the release of their third best-selling book in 2003 – The Total Money Makeover – and they are not slowing down. The company now has more than 200 team members and a variety of products and services to help people reach their financial goals.
Many companies define success based on the dollars coming in, but at Dave’s company they define success by the number of lives changed: listeners getting out of debt, readers taking their first Baby Step and saving $1,000, FPU graduates investing for their future. They learned early on that if they help enough people, the money will come. Their mission statement isn’t just lip service; it’s their mantra:
The Lampo Group, Inc. is providing biblically based, common sense education and empowerment which gives HOPE to everyone from the financially secure to the financially distressed.
