Speakers
Simonne Gnessen
With over 30 years’ experience working in the field of personal finance, Simonne Gnessen is the pioneer of financial coaching in the UK. She’s founder of Wise Monkey Financial Coaching and co author of ‘Sheconomics‘, a book designed to help women unravel the mysteries of the money world and change their money habits.
Originally practising as an Independent Financial Adviser for 10 years, Simonne broke away from the profession because she saw a need that wasn’t being satisfied by traditional financial services. Recognising that there was far more to working with people and their money than focusing on maximising assets, she started her own Financial Coaching practice over 20 years ago to help clients build a better relationship with money and feel calmer, more in control and confident about their finances.
Offering a blend of guidance and coaching, Simonne helps clients fully navigate the financial side of their lives, challenge dysfunctional behaviours and transform their emotional relationship with money. She’s been described as a ‘holistic financial coach who can crunch numbers, while also getting under the hood and doing deep work’. As well as her client work, Simonne also developed a training arm to Wise Monkey to train others to create their own Financial Coaching practice.
Simonne is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a certified coach, ILM Level 7 Coaching and Mentoring trained and a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She’s also a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a Registered Life Planner®.
Her work has been featured on BBC radio and TV, and in a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines.
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Testimonials for Simonne Gnessen’s training
“Simonne was engaging and passionate about her work and shared some great resources. She helped me to gain insights about my own relationship with money and how to work with this with clients.”
“I experienced Simonne as a warm, knowledgeable, empathic expert and speaker. I liked her and would be very interested in booking a consultation with her! I was impressed enough to buy her book on Kindle which has been a great continuation of the seminar.”
“Simonne was very knowledgeable, kind and empathic. Her vast experience with money and finances was clear and her comfort with the topic was reassuring.”
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