The Personal Finance Speakers Association
The NFEC’s Personal Finance Speakers Association (PFSA) is the first national financial speakers bureau to feature financial education advocates, presenters, and speakers. Members range from celebrities and internationally-recognized finance speakers to volunteers and recent graduates of the Certified Financial Education Instructor coursework.
The Association’s goal is to promote its members and offer organizations access to speakers that meet their needs. The NFEC works with people of all abilities – from novice to expert – who have a passion for personal finance advocacy and teaching financial literacy. The Personal Finance Speakers Association gives its members benefits to help them increase exposure and build professional résumés.
Our speakers form the backbone of our community initiatives. Speakers’ association members are directly responsible for helping people improve their financial capabilities, efforts that have positive impact on many areas of people’s lives.
Members of the Personal Finance Speakers Association enjoy these benefits:
All the training and promotional services are provided to our speakers complimentary. The NFEC receives its compensation from third-party clients that seek our financial literacy services. Live presentations lie at the center of our larger initiatives, so it’s in our mutual interests to elevate your qualifications as a financial educator.
Join the NFEC Financial Speakers Bureau: Get Started
Follow the Three Steps below to become a member of the Personal Finance Speakers Association. No investment is required from you – the NFEC provides all the materials complimentary.
Step 1: Choose the level that best describes you (click + for qualification details)
The qualifications listed are below are general guidelines for the NFEC’s financial speakers bureau. We evaluate each candidate on his or her individual merits. The guidelines below are provided just to help you evaluate your current level. It’s our goal and in our best interests to help you build your speaking resume. We provide complimentary promotions, training events, and speaking opportunities to all levels of applicants.
Volunteer Presenters
Volunteer presenters have a passion for sharing lessons that can help people improve their financial capabilities. We provide all the resources you need to conduct events, complimentary.
Click here to become a Volunteer Presenter.
We encourage Volunteer Presenters to complete the Certified Financial Education Instructor coursework; however, certification is not a requirement.
Certified Financial Education Instructors
Those who complete the NFEC’s Certified Financial Education Instructor coursework and remain in good standing receive the full benefits offered by the Personal Finance Speakers Association financial speakers bureau.
Industry Experts & Professional Speakers
Each Featured Speaker in the Personal Finance Speakers Association has taught more than 2,500 individuals, has at least 5 mentions in media outlets, and has a well-written bio, professional picture, high-level testimonials, and polished presentations.
The personal finance experts accepted to the financial speakers bureau that offer books, products, or financial education programs also may submit those offerings to our Product Catalog.
*Prior to conducting an event for the NFEC, Featured Speakers must complete the CFEI training (sponsored and provided complimentary by the NFEC). You may apply and be approved for the Speakers Association without having completed the CFEI training.
Influencers & Keynote Presenters
Keynote Speakers are those who have taught more than 5,000 individuals, have at least 15 mentions in high-quality media outlets, and have a well-written bio, professional picture, quality video demo reel, high-level testimonials, and a polished presentation; and are recognized experts in the personal finance space.
*Influencer & Keynote Speakers are not required to pass the Certified Financial Education Instructor coursework; however, priority will be given to those who do have the CFEI designation. For those who are not currently Certified Financial Education Instructors, the NFEC will sponsor you by providing the coursework complimentary.
Celebrities, Athletes & Dignitaries
The NFEC works with dignitaries, athletes, and celebrity figures to promote financial wellness in communities across the country. The objective is to bring mainstream attention to the financial literacy movement while we help promote your advocacy efforts and personal projects.
Click here to learn more about collaborative and promotional opportunities available to you.
*The NFEC will provide all the material needed to its recognized dignitaries, athletes, and celebrity speakers. You do not have to pass the Certified Financial Education Instructor coursework; however, if you are interested in certification, the NFEC will sponsor you by providing the course complimentary.
Step 2: Application Preparation
Review the qualifications required at the speaker level for which you seek to apply in Step 1 of this process. Also review the application (Step 3) and gather the information you need to make a case to become approved at your desired speaking level.
Please submit all information together in one submission. We review submissions the third week of each month, and we will notify you about the status of your application by the end of the month in which it’s reviewed. After you submit the form, the only confirmation you will receive is the webpage. The next notification you will receive from us will be at the end of the month after we review your application.
Register for the PFSA Financial Speakers Bureau
The NFEC has developed the Personal Finance Speakers Association financial speakers bureau to gives those passionate about financial literacy a platform to share their message.The NFEC works with people of all abilities that have a commitment for promoting personal finance and teaching financial literacy. From concerned citizens that want to share money management lessons with their community to celebrities and leading advocates that want to raise global awareness.For those just entering into the personal finance space, the NFEC helps to build the finance speakers reputation to achieve the level of success they desire.
The NFEC provides comprehensive training to help improve their abilities as instructors – the Certified Financial Education Instructor coursework. They also provide marketing, business development and media services that help new educators build their name within their community. For experts in teaching money management that already have been recognized for their accomplishments in the financial education industry, the NFEC helps increase their visibility while providing revenue opportunities and promotional resources.
The NFEC hosts high-profile campaigns that also benefit the expert financial literacy speaker and advocate. Increasing awareness and speaking opportunities not only benefit the presenter, but the financial literacy movement as a whole.
The NFEC supports you in your efforts to raise funds and awareness that lead you to the successful accomplishment of your goals. You recognize and agree that we have made no implications, warranties, promises, suggestions, projections, representations or guarantees whatsoever to you about future prospects or earnings, or that you will earn any money, with respect to your purchase of this product / service, and that we have not authorized any such projection, promise, or representation by others.