Loading...Rick Kahler, MS, CFP®
Rick Kahler, Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), MS, ChFC, CCIM and President, Kahler Financial Group, launched his professional career at age 18, selling and appraising real estate. In 1981 he founded Kahler Financial Group, and in 1983 became the first fee-only financial planner in South Dakota. In 1998 he was appointed to a five-year term to the SD Investment Council, overseeing a $6 billion portfolio. He was commended for making exemplary strides in a time of unprecedented volatility in the world’s stock and credit sensitive markets.
He is active in the Financial Planning Association and has served in a variety of leadership roles including the Journal of Financial Planning Advisory Board and Chair of the 2004 National Retreat. A pioneer in the “integral finance” evolution of the financial planning profession, Rick is co-founder and co-facilitator of the five-day intensive Healing Money Issues Workshop offered by Onsite Workshops of Nashville, Tennessee, and the Financial Integration Residency Workshop for financial planning and counseling professionals. He is one of only a handful of planners nationwide who employs a certified counselor in his own private practice, offering financial coaching and counseling to his clients.
Kahler is a nationally renowned speaker and educator. His workshops and seminars draw some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential people. He is co-author of two revolutionary new books titled Conscious Finance: Uncover Your Hidden Money Beliefs and Transform the Role of Money in Your Life (FoxCraft, Inc., 2005) and The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge: Transforming Your Relationship With Money – 5 Principles to Financial Freedom & Prosperity, (HCI, Inc., 2005).
His work has been published or cited in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Journal of Financial Planning, Registered Representative, Money Magazine, Counselor Magazine and through his work as the co-founder of Onsite’s Healing Money Issues workshop featured in in Wynonna Judd’s new book Coming Home To Myself, (New American Library, Sep 2005). For additional information or to learn more about Rick visit www.kahlerfinancialgroup.com or www.consciousfinance.com.