Companies
Your Equity Package, Explained
Devin comes on-site to walk employees and executives through what they actually hold — options, RSUs, vesting, 83(b) and the decisions to optimize wealth.
Complex wealth planning, explained in plain English.
Devin W. Blackburn is a wealth advisor and former corporate tax attorney who guides founders, executives, and families through investment management and wealth planning — and a sought-after speaker who makes all of it make sense.
Wealth Advisor + Former Corporate Tax Attorney
Devin advises founders, executives and families on complex planning — and brings the technical grounding of a tax lawyer who structured transactions and handled IRS controversy.
The Executive Compensation Expert
At J.P. Morgan she reimagined the firm's Executive Compensation Advisory practice, and at Northern Trust she developed the Executive Wealth Advisory persona. Equity-linked compensation, plan design, IPO-wealth advisory, 10b5-1 plans.
Plain English, Always
Audiences don't leave with jargon. They leave with language for what they're facing and a decision they can make this week.
Built for Any Room
Corporate employee sessions, advisor and trust-professional audiences, national conferences, and community groups — the same clarity, tuned to the room.
Planning
How I help clients
Equity-linked compensation
Stock options, RSUs, vesting, 83(b), 10b5-1 plans and the tax timing around them.
Wealth at every milestone
Marriage, education, retirement, caregiving, emergency planning — planning for life as it happens.
Concentrated wealth strategy
Pre-IPO, IPO, single-stock positions and the diversification, trust and tax tools that come with them.
Free guide
The Executive Equity Playbook
A plain-English guide to the equity decisions executives and employees face — options, RSUs, vesting, timing and taxes. Tell me where to send it and the download starts right away.
Featured & quoted in
Signature Speaking Topics
Keynotes, panels and workshops that turn technical planning into decisions — for boardrooms, conferences and community rooms.
Wealth
Money at Every Milestone
Building generational wealth through the moments money and life collide — marriage, education planning, retirement, caregiving, emergency planning.
Art
Creative Legacies
Tax and estate planning for artists and significant collections — valuation, charitable strategy, and keeping a body of work intact.
Companies
Explaining equity-linked compensation to the employees and executives who hold it.
Advisors & Trust Professionals
How to credibly serve executives and insiders — and where advisors get it wrong.
Community Groups
Wealth planning and finance in plain language, for conferences, networks and organizations.
Ready to bring clarity to your audience?
Devin is available for keynotes, panels, workshops and guest interviews on executive compensation, wealth transfer and tax strategy. Tell me about your event.