Alumna Lauren Locker ’79 Spearheads Women in Financial Planning Event

Lauren Locker ’79, CFP, helped spearhead a campus workshop last fall on opportunities for women in financial planning that drew more than 200 alumni, students, and career changers from the community. Keynote speaker and moderator Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst, and a panel of women financial planning experts, discussed the fast-growing industry, which is expected to see high growth in the next decade. Locker, who has developed her own successful financial planning business, Locker Financial Associates, has sat on both the regional and national boards of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, serving as National Chair of that organization in 2012-13. The event was funded in part by the Alumni Association’s Visiting Distinguished Professorship.

Photo caption: Siamack Shojai (second from left), dean of the University’s Cotsakos College of Business, with panelists (from left) Lazetta Rainey Braxton, CFP, Financial Fountains; Kate Healy, TD Ameritrade Institutional; Eleanor Blayney, CFP, consumer advocate, CFP Board of Standards; and Jill Schlesinger, CFP, business analyst, CBS News