Precision Guidance. Steady Direction.
Inspired by the tourbillon’s precision, we build disciplined strategies to help keep your goals on track through market cycles.
Our Story
Our name is our commitment to our clients.
The tourbillion was created in the 18th century by a French watchmaker to combat the impact of gravity on timekeeping. By rotating continuously, the mechanism maintains precision and stability, regardless of position.
At Tourbillion Financial Advisors, we embrace the same philosophy. We build thoughtful strategies to help keep your financial plan steady and aligned with your goals – through changing markets, evolving life stages, and unexpected challenges.
Meet Michael
Michael Cohn, MBA, CEPA®, CIMA®, CRPS®
Michael Cohn, MBA, Certified Exit Planning Advisor®, CIMA®, CRPS®, is a financial advisor and business owner with decades of experience across multiple industries, including general aviation, commercial real estate, and corporate finance. This diverse background brings a comprehensive perspective to wealth management and business exit planning, allowing him to connect with clients from a wide range of professional and personal backgrounds.
Michael’s appreciation for precision, craftsmanship, and value began early, working in his father’s jewelry store and developing a lasting interest in fine watches. He was trading gold and silver before he was old enough to drive — gaining firsthand insight into markets, risk, and opportunity.
He majored in Finance and International Studies and began his career at the World Bank in Washington, DC. He later worked in commercial real estate and corporate finance before transitioning to wealth management at UBS Financial Services. In 2020, he founded Tourbillion Financial Advisors to deliver integrated, forward-thinking advice to successful individuals and business owners with complex financial lives. CRPS® conferred by College for Financial Planning.
Our Capabilities
Exit Planning
Thoughtful guidance for business owners that aligns growth, risk management and transition goals.
Ideal Exit Planning Client
You are a successful business owner who thinks beyond the moment. As you consider a sale or transition of your business, you want more than a transaction, you want a strategy. YYou value forward-thinking advice that integrates preserving your legacy with positioning you and your family for your next chapter.
Wealth Management
Wealth planning for individuals managing both short-term and long-term financial needs.
Ideal Wealth Management Client
Your financial life is complex and that complexity reflects success. Whether you own a business or are enjoying retirement and whether your assets include planes, boats, horses, art or other unique holdings, you need a trusted advisor who understands both the numbers and the lifestyle behind them. You value thoughtful planning, coordinated strategy, and long-term perspective — so every decision aligns with your goals, your legacy, and your next chapter.
Our Thinking
As a Certified Exit Planning Advisor, Michael leverages over 45 years of experience with insights from Exit Planning Institute to guide business owners through successful transitions, whether selling, passing on, or stepping back.
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Our RIA
Tourbillion Financial Advisors has partnered with Independent Advisor Alliance (IAA), a Registered Investment Adviser providing operational and support services to 240+ independent advisors nationwide and overseeing $23B in brokerage and advisory assets. This partnership allows Tourbillion Financial Advisors to focus on its clients and deliver exceptional client results. Independent Advisor Alliance is a separate entity from LPL Financial.
Our Broker/Dealer
LPL serves the financial advisor-mediated marketplace as the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer*, a leading investment advisory firm, and a top custodian. It supports nearly 32,000 financial advisors, and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,200 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.4 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run successful businesses * Based on total revenue, Financial Planning magazine Jun 1996-2025
Our Portfolio Managers
Tourbillion Financial Advisors utilizes the resources of experienced portfolio managers, including J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Clark Capital Wealth Management Group, Carlyle Group, and Goldman Sachs, to manage the day-to-day investing within client portfolios. Their teams monitor the markets, build diversified strategies, and make ongoing adjustments as conditions change, while we focus on your overall financial plan and long-term goals.
Get in Touch
Phone
(202) 559-8383Office Locations
Leesburg, VA & Williston, FL
Disclosures
Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. Tourbillion Financial Advisors is another business name of Independent Advisor Alliance, LLC. All investment advice is offered through Independent Advisor Alliance, LLC. Independent Advisor Alliance, LLC is a separate entity from LPL Financial.
The LPL Financial registered representative associated with this website may discuss and/or transact business only with residents of the states in which they are properly registered or licensed. No offers may be made or accepted from any resident of any other state.
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