NLIC 2027 Spirit of Life Campaign
Honoring Joel H. Solomon, ChFC
Managing Partner, Chairman Emeritus and Chartered Financial Consultant at Higginbotham Financial
Joel H. Solomon, Chartered Financial Consultant, has over 50 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is Chairman Emeritus of Higginbotham Financial, a subsidiary of Higginbotham, one of the largest Property & Casualty and Employee Benefits brokers in the United States. Higginbotham acquired Mr. Solomon’s companies, Paradigm Strategic Insurance Services and Paradigm Strategic Consulting in 2020.
Mr. Solomon also created the intellectual property known nationwide as the ParadigmPlan™, PRSPlan™, TheRoadmap™ and RetirementTaxAnalyzer (RTA) licensed by some of the largest financial institutions in the country and hundreds of financial professionals. Throughout his career has served over 4,000 individuals, privately held companies, and publicly traded firms. Mr. Solomon is a main platform speaker at nationwide events catering to both industry attendees and professional tax advisors.
Two of Mr. Solomon’s career highlights were when, in August 2011, he spoke in Fiji to Tony Robbins ’Platinum Partners’ on The Markets and How to Obtain Financial Security and when one of the largest financial institutions in the United States, Pacific Life, asked him to speak to its Board of Directors on how to best position this 150-year-old financial services firm for growth in the future.
Mr. Solomon has authored articles on a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from retirement asset sequencing, professional practice management issues, and investment allocation strategies to business exit strategies and discriminatory executive benefit plans. Since 2006, he also has trained over 3,800 other financial services professionals in his SolomonSchool, which is an intensive 3-day training program where Mr. Solomon shares his intellectual property and ideology on how to serve the financial needs of corporate and individual clients.
He has served as a Board of Director for the South Florida PGA Golf Foundation that runs the Doral Charities as well as the Make A Wish Foundation of South Florida and Orange County. Mr. Solomon has devoted a considerable amount of time over the years raising funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, devoted to curing all children’s cancers.
Mr. Solomon attended Villanova & Duquesne Universities where he received his degrees in Business Management & Accounting. In 1980, he received his professional Chartered Life Underwriter ‘CLU’ designation, and then in 1984 he received his professional Chartered Financial Consultant ‘ChFC’ designation both from the American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Solomon is married to Nancy and has two daughters, Sloane & Paige, and two grandchildren, Rex and Jack. He and Nancy split their time between their homes in Newport Beach and Palm Desert, California with their two rescue pit bulls, Archie and Buttercup.
Helping Build a Healthier Future, Together
The 2026 Spirit of Life® campaign brings together leaders across the National Life Insurance Council around a shared belief: when an industry comes together, it can move progress faster and make a lasting difference for patients and families.
In 2026, this collective effort will support City of Hope’s work to transform cancer and diabetes care—accelerating discoveries from the lab to the clinic, expanding access to whole-person care, and strengthening care delivery in communities across the country.