About Me
A life shaped by clarity, purpose, and courage.
I align the human system behind generational wealth so legacy endures.
Susan Weingartner
Founder, Weingartner Legacy Co.
I am a mother, a daughter, a leader, a seeker, and someone who has rebuilt her life more than once. My work has always lived at the intersection of people, purpose, and the long arc of impact. For more than twenty years, I have moved across sectors and roles that all required clarity, presence, and the ability to hold complexity with both compassion and strength.
I founded Weingartner Legacy Co. because families families navigating generational wealth transfer need grounded, human-centered alignment before responsibility shifts across generations. Women and next generation leaders in particular deserve support as they step into responsibility and develop agency. Family, values, connection, and intention matter deeply. In defining moments, alignment determines whether legacy endures.
My Story
My path into this work began long before I entered the private sector. I earned my degree in psychology and began my career working with homeless adults, at-risk youth, and rural communities overseas in the Peace Corps. Those early years taught me how to listen beneath the surface, how to understand human behavior, and how to support people when identity, belonging, and safety feel uncertain. That foundation shaped everything that came after it.
What I Learned From My Father
My father spent 33 years as a wealth advisor. Growing up, I didn’t fully grasp the depth of trust families placed in him. It was only after his passing, in the stories people shared, that I understood how much steadiness and clarity matter during life’s most important transitions. His work showed me what it means to be a steady presence when responsibility shifts and decisions carry generational weight.
What I Came to See
As my career grew, I moved into philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and eventually into sustainable real estate and impact investing. My work deepened my understanding of how values-aligned capital can influence systems and shape long-term outcomes. I partnered with high net worth individuals, foundations, and later institutional investors to develop strategies that connected financial decisions with meaningful impact.
Through co-founding and leading two sustainable real estate firms, we built more than 350 homes across the Pacific Northwest and managed five real estate funds. I developed impact frameworks, shaped theories of change, wrote impact reports, raised mission-aligned capital, and worked to catalyze transformation in the built environment.
Through my career, I’ve come to see that how we invest is the world we are creating. Behind capital are people, values, and choices.
As wealth shifts to women and the next generation, I believe we have a rare opportunity to shape investment decisions in ways that strengthen families, communities, and the planet.
Alignment determines what comes next.
What Motivates Me
I am motivated by the belief that clarity is possible, even in the most uncertain chapters of life. I know what it feels like to stand inside transition without a clear path. I also know how transformational it can be when someone walks beside you with steadiness, honesty, and care.
My own life has been shaped by transition, including divorce, loss, and rebuilding. The quiet work of choosing, again and again, who I want to become has deepened my capacity to support others with presence and understanding.
I am the mother of two teenagers and a steady presence to two young adults in their twenties. They challenge me, ground me, and remind me why purpose, connection, and intention matter. They are a constant reminder that legacy is lived through the relationships we cultivate and the choices we make in the moments that matter most.
My purpose is to help women, families, and next generations align their decisions with what truly matters, both personally and systemically.
Legacy is not defined by inheritance.
Legacy is defined by intention.
It is carried forward through relationships, responsibility, and the choices we make when responsibility shifts.
Why Families Trust This Work
I have spent more than two decades working inside complex capital decisions, from philanthropy and impact strategy to real estate funds and institutional investors.
I have sat at tables where responsibility carries weight across generations. I understand both the mechanics of capital and the human dynamics that determine whether it strengthens or fractures what comes next.
My background spans psychology, systems change, and capital markets. That combination allows me to bridge conversations between family members, advisors, and institutions with steadiness and clarity.
Families trust me not because I replace their legal or financial advisors, but because I create the alignment that allows those strategies to endure.
When I Feel Most Alive
I feel most alive when I am moving through nature, trail running, skiing steep powder runs, or traveling deeply into cultures that expand my perspective.
Being far from the familiar resets me. It sharpens my instincts, opens me to awe and wonder, and reconnects me to my intuition. It reminds me how adaptable we become when the terrain shifts beneath us.
I come alive in deep conversation, shared laughter, and the quiet moments that bring life into focus.
This is how I work.
With presence.
With courage.
With steadiness in unfamiliar terrain.
Because legacy, like mountains, is not navigated from a distance.
It is lived step by step, with intention.
My Belief About Legacy
Legacy is not defined by inheritance.
Legacy is defined by intention.
It lives in the conversations families are willing to have and the commitments they choose to honor. A legacy becomes real when values shape decisions, when relationships deepen, and when each generation feels connected to a sense of purpose.
My work supports families in creating legacies that are preserved, lived, and carried forward with meaning.
If you are standing at a defining moment in your family’s legacy,
I would be honored to support you in aligning what comes next.