About
Troy and Katie Williams.
My name is Troy. My wife Katie and I homeschool our four children. Katie is the current co-op teacher at Cornerstone Academy, and I still teach part-time.
In 2020 we started homeschooling, and Katie began teaching at the co-op. I was asked to write and teach a Biblical Finance course, drawing on two decades of finance expertise. The Christian options we found taped a Bible study onto someone else’s budgeting class. That course became Riches Redeemed. AJES Academy is the shelf of electives around it.
Scripture belongs in the chapter itself — not a secular course with Bible verses added on.
“I would love it if my kids could go to Yale — but hear me out: Yale from 200 years ago. Biblically grounded, Christian environment, and the pursuit of excellence and ideas with rigor.”
That’s the brand. Excellence, Biblical foundation, rigor, and electives that no one else offers — for serious Christian homeschool families who want more than what the modern private, public, or even typical homeschool path provides.
Founder
Troy Williams
Written by Troy Williams · Kellogg MBA · McKinsey · Ameriprise Financial
Troy holds a BBA in finance from the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His career has been in strategy and leadership, at McKinsey and as VP of Strategy and Business Development at Ameriprise Financial. Riches Redeemed was built from two decades of finance expertise and a conviction that Scripture and financial stewardship belong together in every chapter — not in a separate appendix. He and Katie taught the first co-op classes together. He wrote the course. He still teaches part-time.
- TCU finance
- Kellogg MBA
- McKinsey
- Ameriprise Financial
Career
Ameriprise Financial
Strategy and business development at a Fortune 500 financial services firm, across wealth management and asset management.
McKinsey
Strategy consulting across financial services, enterprise transformation, and data-driven decisions.
Best Buy
Merchandising and buying at a Fortune 100 retailer — category results, vendor negotiations, and pricing.
Co-op teacher
Katie Williams
Katie holds a BBA in marketing and entrepreneurial management from Texas Christian University. She teaches health and fitness and homeschools their four children (ages 12 to 17). They taught the first co-op classes together. Katie is the current co-op teacher at Cornerstone Academy. She gave the course extra attention so a teacher can pick it up and teach it: the week’s plan, the prompts, and whether a chapter is ready for class.
- Health and fitness
- Homeschool teacher
- Curriculum advisor
- TCU BBA
Education
Neeley, then Kellogg.
- BBA, Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University
- MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Service
Haiti Empowered.
Troy served from 2022–2025 as a general board member and as treasurer. Founded in 2005, Haiti Empowered is a 501(c)(3) with a mission of “Equipping Children. Giving Hope for Generations.” The organization provides education, nutrition, and medical care across 14 villages in the Léogâne area of Haiti.
The Elective Machine
We’re not trying to replace English or math. Those paths are well-served. What’s missing for serious high-school homeschoolers are the electives — Finance, Architecture, Biblical Anthropology, Economics, History of Business, History of Ideas — taught with academic rigor and from a Biblical foundation.
That first course became Riches Redeemed. All work is graded automatically against a robust rubric. You can override any suggested grade. It has video lectures and an official transcript. Teaching it every week surfaced what else was missing from the serious Christian homeschool market, and AJES Academy is the catalog we are building to fill those gaps.
Multi-Modal Depth
Our courses are not lecture libraries. A student working through an AJES Academy course reads the textbook, watches short video lessons, listens to audio companions, completes graded homework and exams, and builds a portfolio. Parents get readable reports and the option of an official transcript.
This is what “a complete learning experience” means to us: read, watch, listen, do, get graded, and come away with something that stands up as high-school coursework.
What We Are Not
We are not a celebrity-academy competitor. Other platforms pay seven figures to recruit famous faculty and produce Hollywood-level video — a model that requires their $499-per-year pricing (not ours) to cover production and optimizes for the faculty’s fame rather than the student’s formation.
Our difference starts with pedagogy, not price. We focus on timeless truths, primary sources, and the kind of depth a serious high-school student can build a worldview on. Every live course is a one-time purchase — no subscriptions, no auto-renewal. The full list lives on the Pricing page: Riches Redeemed is $49 Student or $79 Family. Advanced Finance is $39 per student. Art History, History of Business, and Architecture History are $25 per student.
Five courses are available now: Riches Redeemed, Art History, Advanced Finance, History of Business, and Architecture History. Additional electives are being co-authored with trusted colleagues in their respective fields and will launch through 2026–2028.
Want to know when new courses open?
Notify me