We guide educators, young professionals, healthcare
professionals, and first responders to become intentional,
secure, and confident about their hard-earned dollars by
creating and implementing a financial plan to reach their goals.

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Comprehensive Financial Planning
and Investment Management

We guide educators, young professionals,
healthcare professionals, and first responders
to become intentional, secure, and confident
about their hard-earned dollars by creating and
implementing a financial plan to reach their goals.

SCHEDULE A COMPLIMENTARY
DISCOVERY MEETING

Comprehensive Financial
Planning and Investment
Management

We believe…

As educators, young professionals, healthcare professionals, and first responders you are the lifeblood of our society. You are ambitious and creative. You teach, innovate, heal, and protect us all. We believe you deserve affordable, comprehensive, honest, and unbiased financial planning that helps you create and execute a plan to live the life of your dreams.  

That is our mission. 

Ongoing comprehensive financial planning
Investment management
Project-based financial planning
Student loan analysis

What we do

We analyze your entire financial situation, help you
set ambitious goals, and empower you to take action
to pursue your best possible life.

How we do it

How we do it

We analyze your entire financial
situation, help you set ambitious
goals, and empower you to take
action to pursue your best possible life.

What we do

Ongoing comprehensive financial planning
Investment management
Project-based financial planning
Student loan analysis

Why we’re different

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As a stand-alone company unaffiliated with insurance companies, banks, or retirement providers, we exclusively make decisions in your best interest. We work for you and you only.

We are legally bound to always act in your best financial interest.

We do not take commissions from outside funding sources, freeing us from conflicts of interest and helping us focus on what is best for you.

Like you, we know the struggle of dedicating yourself to others and the frustrations that can come from also negotiating investments, retirement hopes, and other financial burdens. We aim to serve those who have served so many others.

Although our physical presence is in Baltimore, Maryland, we are happy to arrange virtual sessions to support clients anywhere looking to invest in their dreams.

Don’t just take our word for it

All reviews are from current clients. No compensation was provided. No material conflict of interests to disclose.

Proud Partner of:

Proud Partner of:

Anne Claire Tejtel Nornhold
Registered Investment Advisor

Anne Claire joined Teach for America, a program that helps staff under-resourced school districts, in 2000 and taught in Baltimore City for 11 years before moving to a central office role.  She has been passionate about personal finance and teaching it to others ever since she started investing at the age of 22.  In 2021 she began an apprenticeship with Garritt Financial Solutions and loved it so much that she began studying for the Uniform Investment Advisor Law Examination, which she passed in June of 2022.  She joined Garritt Financial Solutions in 2023 as an Investment Advisor Representative.

Anne Claire is passionate about empowering clients to pay off debt, build wealth, and develop the financial confidence and mastery that leads to a fulfilling and financially stress-free life.  She is the recipient of the Kinder Award for Excellence in Teaching, a two-time finalist for Baltimore City Teacher of the Year, and a former Teaching Ambassador Fellow with the U.S. Department of Education. She has two young children and loves to read, play sports, and spend time outdoors.

Justin Garritt
Founder and Registered Investment Advisor

Justin joined Teach for America in 2011 and worked as a middle school math teacher and baseball coach in Baltimore City. He earned a Master of Arts in Education in 2013 while teaching full-time, and subsequently earned an Education Administration Certificate at Johns Hopkins University in 2014.

In 2015 Justin completed the rigorous Baltimore City Model Teacher Pathway portfolio process. In 2018, he took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and complete Financial Planning coursework at Boston University. In 2019, he successfully passed the Uniform Investment Advisor Law Examination, the licensing test required to provide investing and general financial advice to clients, and filed Garritt Financial Solutions LLC with the State of Maryland.

In 2020, Justin was officially registered as an Investment Advisor Representative and began serving clients. In 2021, Justin was awarded the prestigious Harriet Ball Award for Excellence in Teaching because of his impact on his students. Justin left teaching in 2022 to pursue his passion of changing more lives through financial planning.  He currently works with over 100 clients.  Justin loves spending time with family and friends, traveling, being outdoors, and living an adventurous life.

Anne Claire Tejtel Nornhold
Registered Investment Advisor

Anne Claire joined Teach for America, a program that helps staff under-resourced school districts, in 2000 and taught in Baltimore City for 11 years before moving to a central office role.  She has been passionate about personal finance and teaching it to others ever since she started investing at the age of 22.  In 2021 she began an apprenticeship with Garritt Financial Solutions and loved it so much that she began studying for the Uniform Investment Advisor Law Examination, which she passed in June of 2022.  She joined Garritt Financial Solutions in 2023 as an Investment Advisor Representative.

Anne Claire is passionate about empowering clients to pay off debt, build wealth, and develop the financial confidence and mastery that leads to a fulfilling and financially stress-free life.  She is the recipient of the Kinder Award for Excellence in Teaching, a two-time finalist for Baltimore City Teacher of the Year, and a former Teaching Ambassador Fellow with the U.S. Department of Education. She has two young children and loves to read, play sports, and spend time outdoors.

Justin Garritt
Founder and Registered Investment Advisor

Justin joined Teach for America in 2011 and worked as a middle school math teacher and baseball coach in Baltimore City. He earned a Master of Arts in Education in 2013 while teaching full-time, and subsequently earned an Education Administration Certificate at Johns Hopkins University in 2014.

In 2015 Justin completed the rigorous Baltimore City Model Teacher Pathway portfolio process. In 2018, he took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and complete Financial Planning coursework at Boston University. In 2019, he successfully passed the Uniform Investment Advisor Law Examination, the licensing test required to provide investing and general financial advice to clients, and filed Garritt Financial Solutions LLC with the State of Maryland.

In 2020, Justin was officially registered as an Investment Advisor Representative and began serving clients. In 2021, Justin was awarded the prestigious Harriet Ball Award for Excellence in Teaching because of his impact on his students. Justin left teaching in 2022 to pursue his passion of changing more lives through financial planning.  He currently works with over 100 clients.  Justin loves spending time with family and friends, traveling, being outdoors, and living an adventurous life.