Mike Rini – Financial Services Professional, Financial Education Developer & Financial Literacy Advocate

Personal Notes

Hello I’m Mike. To make people awesome in personal finance is what I do best. I create personal financial curiculum with a gamebase learning. Gamebase learning is an extraordinary, powerful strategy with an infinite number of application. For many years me and my team recognize the effectiveness and power of gamebase learning for teaching financial literacy. We begin by incorporating interactive learning activities and games into training programs. Our first board game, SMART Money Game, proved so successful it provided better retention and more enjoyment than any other teaching tools used. We initially developed our financial literacy board game to incorporate into the training program we design and delivered. We now offer custom financial literacy board games to our clients to use themselves for their own financial education needs and applications. Our financial planners and educators, graphic designers and game design experts will put their talents and proven record of achievement to work designing a solution just for you.

Bio

Mike Rini is a reputable and trusted Independent Financial Planner from Indonesia. She holds the designations of both NFEC Certified Financial Education Instructor and Certified Financial Planner.

Mike has a long track record in the financial industry with experience working in several national private and foreign banks. Her dedication to objective and holistic customer service took her on a career path which gave her the opportunity to manage retail customer, primary and corporate accounts. Mike understands deep financial problems and mastering how to make financial planning, risk management, investing, and financing understandable to customers.

Her work as a financial planner stems from concern about the financial problems that plagued her community. Most people tend to have a consumer lifestyle, a great deal of debt, are unable to save, and are not ready to face an economic crisis. The reasons are a low level of financial literacy and an incorrect financial mindset. In the course of her career as a financial planner, Mike found a relationship between good and bad financial conditions with high and low performance of an employee that will ultimately affect the performance of the company. Therefore she saw the importance of financial education in the workplace.

Mike decided to start her career as an Independent Financial Planner in 2003. She has been teaching financial planning throughout Indonesia ever since, had her own radio talkshow, wrote many financial planning articles, becoming a financial planning columnist and received nationwide recognition for her work. She founded Mitra Rencana Edukasi (MRE) in 2009, which is a personal financial consulting and training firm. Since then, the personal financial planning advisory services of MRE are widely used by individuals and employees in the company. Personal financial planning advisory services are 100% fee only, objective, and unbiased. While personal financial planning and training is widely used by companies to teach financial literacy to its employees.

Her first international recognition was received when she was trusted by UNIFEM (UN Women) in 2006 to provide financial literacy education for Woman Migrant Workers.  Further international recognition came when she was invited to be the keynote speaker at the 2nd Bank Indonesia International Seminar on Islamic Finance, and brought the topic of Financial Inclusion for Low Income Societies.

Under Mike’s leadership, MRE has developed an excellent program including Financial Literacy board games and workshops. Mike began creating her first board game in 2008 under the name of SMART Money Game. The goal of board game is to teach financial literacy in a more fun and engaging way. In this way, it proved to be effective and the game board itself has been repeatedly played in a variety of corporate training, scholastic, and corporate social responsibility environments.

Here are some of the financial literacy workshops that use the Smart Money Board Game:
1. Financial Literacy Workshop for College Students at the University of Indonesia
2. Training for Trainers of Financial Planning and Entrepreneurship for Migrant Workers and Their Families, with The World Bank
3. Financial Literacy Workshop for the Ministries of the Republic of Indonesia with Bank Mandiri
4. Financial Literacy Workshop for College Students at Universitas of Bina Nusantara
5. Financial Literacy Workshop for Woman Blogger Community with Cigna Life Insurance
6. Financial Literacy Writing Contest and Workshop with Sinar Mas MSIG Life

Going forward, Mike will continue to create innovations in teaching financial literacy with the Gamebase Learning. Mike also wants to improve the quality of educational services by establishing a Financial Education Platform for Corporate Learning, Educational and Corporate Social Responsibilities. Mike believes that altogether with the provision of knowledge and support of the National Financial Educators Council to run financial education that meets professional aesthetic standards will significantly improve the financial literacy and capabilities of Indonesian society.

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