Madison Financial Group has appointed Jaime Johns to the position of National Practice Development Manager following a 20% growth in its adviser numbers during the past 12 months.

Ms Johns joins Madison from Capstone Financial Planning where she was the National Business Manager working with the CEO on strategic and operational decisions to develop the company’s financial planning practices and increase its product lines.

During her time there Ms Johns was responsible for ensuring strategies were in place to ensure client satisfaction, employee performance and adviser retention.

Prior to Capstone Ms Johns held senior roles with Bendigo Adelaide Bank and One Path.

She has extensive experience in training, proven practice management skills and an outstanding ability to identify gaps in product and adviser capabilities and fix them.

Madison Financial Group General Manager, Giulio Russo, said Madison was delighted to have someone of Jaime John’s caliber on board to provide her expertise as the business continues to grow.

“The demographics of our adviser network has changed significantly during the past couple of years with a number of entrepreneurial and start-up ventures joining us. This has meant the demands on our services has also changed,” Mr Russo said

“This was reflected in our recent Benchmarking Survey where advisers indicated they wanted more support on business coaching and practice management than previously. Jaime has extensive experience in these areas and will be a valuable addition to our team.”

Mr Russo also indicated Madison would continue to make a number of other significant changes to its business to continue to attract new advisers whilst supporting the needs of existing practices.

“The focus in 2016 will be to source ‘best of breed’ solutions around software support, approved products and Managed Accounts. We will still be offering advisers choice but in a more efficient manner.”

Madison Financial Group is a national non-aligned dealer group with 88 advisers, across 50 practices, managing more than $3.5bn in Funds Under Advice and $70m in-force Risk Premium.

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