Meet Chad Ogden
Chad was born and raised in Wichita, KS. After high school, he pursued a collegiate career in baseball that led him to Creighton University, located in Omaha, NE. After finishing his playing career at Creighton, Chad signed to play baseball for the Texas Rangers.
After two years in the minor league system, Chad decided to give up baseball and go back to Creighton to finish his degree. Which turned out to be the best decision he had ever made. During that time frame he met his wife Bridget who was at Creighton finishing up pharmacy school.
After two years of collegiate coaching and time apart from Bridget, Chad moved up to Minnesota to be with his bride. Knowing that there was a calling greater out there and wanting to continue to teach and be an educator, Chad latched on to Northwestern Mutual in the fall of 2011 and has never looked back.
To date, Chad and Bridget have been married for 10 years and have three children, Blakeley (8), Sutton (6), and Cru (1).
Chad enjoys, playing baseball, coaching Blakeley in soccer, watching his kids at gymnastics, movie nights with the family, going to church, raising money and participating with charities such as Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, ALS Super Hero Dash and Feed My Starving Children.
Lending a hand in my community.
As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)
ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.
Beads of Courage
Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.
Here are my areas of expertise
Financial Planning
Insurance Protection Strategies
Life Insurance Strategies
Retirement Planning & Income Strategies
Education Planning & Funding
Disability Planning
Multigenerational Planning
Estate Planning
How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.
When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.
Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.
It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.
