Mission - Vision - Objectives

“At Summit Financial Group your Goals are our Goals!”

Vision: To become the premiere financial services organization providing superior product and service solutions to the individual, emerging business and corporate markets and advisor partners who support these markets.

Mission: Enhance our clients by providing unbiased and professional guidance in developing their financial future. We will do this by engaging the best talent and supporting that talent with an environment that promotes trust, integrity and a commitment to the development of our people.

Guiding Principles:

• Authenticity: share your true feelings
• Mutuality: encourage your fellow associates
• Empathy: support each other (personally and professionally)
• Mercy: forgive each other
• Honesty: speak the truth, even when it hurts
• Humility: admit weaknesses and mistakes
• Courtesy: respect differences in opinion and beliefs
• Confidentiality: praise in public, criticize in private
• Decisions: make business decision and implement humanely
• Communication: do it early and often
• People: focus on behavior not personality

Summit Pledge:

We pledge our ability and willingness to apply proven Summit Financial Group techniques and tools to substantially increase satisfaction from three very important and different perspectives. They are:

1. Executive Management Team
2. Benefits Management Team and
3. Employees, Dependents and Retirees

We pledge to thoroughly review the Past by collecting and analyzing all the Data you can provide concerning your past (5 years Minimum time period). This helps summarize plan costs and determine your primary cost drivers. We call this Phase I: What you have and What has been driving Costs.

This first step helps us guide you in the creation of a personalized benefits philosophy (this is reviewed and revised as necessary—annually, while performing quarterly stewardship review). We call this Phase II: Benchmarking and Stewardship.

We then help you establish the best case reasonable steps for the development of an appropriate Plan for your Benefits Future. We call this Phase III: Help Management and Employees Know where they are going.

The next phase is essential to the development and implementation of cost management opportunities as you identify and prioritize various solution mechanisms that fit your corporate culture and your benefits philosophy. We call this Phase IV: How are we going to get there?

With Phases I thru IV underway you can turn your attention to the development of a mechanism for continuous improvement. This is where we help you continuously monitor results, evaluate marketplace alternatives and Communicate Communicate Communicate! We call this Phase V: The Success Loop.

• Phase I: What you have and What is driving Costs
• Phase II: Benchmarking and Stewardship
• Phase III: Help Management and Employees know where they are going.
• Phase IV: How are we going to get there
• Phase V: Build and use the Success Loop

Once we have the pleasure of a face-to-face meeting we fully expect to find other important areas where our organization’s expertise and teamwork can save you time, save money and increase overall employee satisfaction.