Founder, Firehorse Strategic Partners

For more than 30 years, Lisa Hutter has helped individuals, families, business owners, and executives navigate important financial decisions with confidence.

As Founder of Firehorse Strategic Partners, powered by Legacy Wealth Management, Lisa serves as a trusted advisor to clients seeking thoughtful guidance on wealth, tax, estate, investment, business, and legacy planning. While investment management is an important component of her work, Lisa's role often extends far beyond portfolios. She helps clients evaluate opportunities, solve problems, and make informed decisions that align with their goals, values, and vision for the future.

Lisa's career has spanned law, trust administration, financial planning, executive leadership, and wealth management. She began her professional journey as an estate planning attorney before becoming a trust officer and later a financial planner. Over time, she moved into management and executive leadership roles, leading advisors and large teams within one of the world's largest financial institutions.

Throughout every stage of her career, however, she continued working directly with clients. Even while leading advisors and executives, Lisa remained a player coach, personally advising many of the institution's largest and most complex client relationships. For some families, she was their primary trusted advisor regardless of who was formally assigned to the account.

Those experiences reinforced something she had known all along: the work she loved most was working directly with clients. Helping them solve problems. Helping them make decisions. Helping them navigate uncertainty and opportunity.

Over time, Lisa made the intentional decision to devote her career entirely to serving clients as an advisor. She built a practice focused on long-term relationships and comprehensive planning, becoming the person clients call before making important financial, business, family, or legacy decisions.

Today, Firehorse Strategic Partners represents the culmination of that journey. It brings together more than three decades of experience across law, planning, leadership, and wealth management into a practice designed around one simple idea: helping clients make better decisions and live more intentional lives.

Clients often turn to Lisa not only for investment guidance, but also for perspective during major life transitions, business decisions, estate planning matters, charitable endeavors, and family conversations that shape the future. She is known for her ability to simplify complexity, identify opportunities, and bring together the right resources to help clients move forward with clarity and confidence.

Lisa has developed particular expertise in alternative investments and private markets. She believes that many portfolios rely too heavily on traditional stocks and bonds and that carefully selected private investments can provide meaningful diversification, income opportunities, and access to return streams that may not be available in public markets. She works closely with clients to evaluate where alternative investments may fit within an overall strategy and places significant emphasis on due diligence, manager selection, ongoing monitoring, and risk assessment. Through Firehorse Strategic Partners and Legacy Wealth Management, clients have access to a robust alternative investment platform supported by institutional-level due diligence and ongoing oversight.

In addition to her advisory work, Lisa is an active writer and speaker on leadership, family, wealth, and planning. Through her Lessons From the Boardroom and Lessons Between the Boardrooms series, speaking engagements, media contributions, and educational content, she shares insights drawn from more than three decades of helping clients, organizations, and leaders navigate important decisions.

Originally from New York, Lisa now lives in the Austin, Texas area with her husband and two daughters. Family is the center of her life and the foundation for many of the values that guide both her personal and professional decisions. When she is not working with clients, she enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, traveling, supporting her daughters' pursuits, and serving in leadership roles within her synagogue and community.

Lisa believes the best outcomes rarely happen by accident.

They happen when preparation meets opportunity."