Former Financial Professional: 12 years (was in the industry from 1994 - 2005).
Sold her practice: June 2005 (was an investment manager for one of Canada's most international banks and a financial advisor before opening her own wealth management firm in 2000).
Regular features: (conducted over 1,500 media interviews in the last five years)
Marilyn Denis Show (financial expert since 2012)
Global National's, The Morning Show
CBC News National
BT Toronto
Tangerine's Forward Thinking blog
The Women's Collection
Golden Girl Finance
Meridian Credit
Chartwell Retirement Residences
RBC Entrepreneurs in the Garage
CIBC (various articles and videos)
Financial Planning for Canadians consumer site
CPA Canada Magazine
CJAD Radio Montreal
Host, Burn My Mortgage on the W Network
Current roles 2021: brand partner, financial industry consultant, best-selling author with Simon and Schuster, Marilyn Denis show expert, media personality, keynote speaker.
W Network Host: Burn My Mortgage, financial host. Aired in the winter of 2010/2011 - 13 episodes.
Books written: 11
Rich Girl, Broke Girl; save better, invest smarter and earn financial freedom - December 14th, 2022 (Simon and Schuster)
Talk Money To Me; save well, spend some, and feel good about your money during COVID and other times of financial distress - February 23rd, 2021 (Simon and Schuster)
Talk Money To Me; save well, spend some, and feel good about your money - December 2019 (Simon and Schuster)
Columns/ articles published: 1,500 + and counting.
Financial literacy advocate: from 2005 - September 2020, Kelley has been on a mission to Make Canadians Feel Good About Money, served on the first National Steering Committee on Financial Literacy and was the consumer advocate for FP Canada (formerly Financial Planning Standards Council) for four and a half years, conducting thousands of media interviews.
Speaker for 20 years: lecturing to thousands of women, consumers and the financial industry.
Favourite cities: Toronto, Washington, New York and Paris (other than home town Edmonton).
Age: 46
Best-selling author: Talk Money to Me hit the Globe and Mail as well as the Toronto Star's best-sellers lists twice each in 2020.
Awarded: the TIAW (The International Alliance for Women) World of Difference 100 Awards in October of 2009.
Awarded: the Excellence in Financial Literacy Education award, granted by The Institute for Financial Literacy in April 2013 for The Canadian's Guide to Money-Smart Living and again in April 2014 for Protecting You and Your Money: A Guide to Avoiding Identity Theft & Fraud.
Boards and committees: CFEE (Canadian Foundation for Economic Education) board member, Ontario Securities Commission Senior Advisory Committee member, Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Consumer Protection Advisory Committee member, IWF (International Women's Forum) member, OECD INFE affiliate member, FP Canada Consumer Advocate (past), Money Mentors board member (past), Financial Consumer Agency of Canada's first National Steering Committee for Financial Literacy member (past).
Media: interviewed by thousands of radio & TV shows and featured in hundreds of newspapers and magazines and quoted in Oprah's O Magazine in 2009.
Past features: CNBC (New York) regular contributor, CBC Radio Active (weekly), Alberta Primetime regular contributor - The Monday Money Panel, CBC Radio - Nationally Syndicated Weekly Financial Columnist, CTV (monthly segment), Sun Media (columnist), Forever Young (columnist) , Canadian Money Saver Magazine (regular contributor), Orb Magazine (COIN columnist), The Globe and Mail’s, Cash Clash columnist and more.
