Event Calendar
Help for this page My CE Transcript
Hosted by FPA of Tampa Bay

Conversation with... Martin Seay

2020 FPA President Martin Seay, PhD, CFP, joins us on May 14th for our continuing series Conversation With. Dr. Seay concentrates his efforts on building the connection between practitioners, academics and the next generation of financial planning professionals.

In addition to gaining a better understanding of how university degree programs are impacting and possibly transforming the financial planning profession, we'll talk about role The Financial Planning Association is playing and will play as the professional membership association for financial planning professionals.

Registration Required

Thursday, May 14, 2020
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Location

Virtual Event Via ZOOM
   
 




Speaker Profiles

 


Martn Seay, PhD, CFP®
Kansas State University

Martin Seay, Ph.D., CFP®, is Program Chair and Associate Professor of Personal Financial Planning at Kansas State University, where he oversees and teaches in the CFP Board registered undergraduate, graduate certificate, master’s and Ph.D. programs. He is the 2020 President for the Financial Planning Association® (FPA®), and the youngest and second academic to serve as President. He is a past director and Vice President of Communications for the Academy of Financial Services, a premier academic association supporting financial planning education and research.

With over 40 peer-reviewed publications, his research focuses on how psychological characteristics shape financial behavior, borrowing decisions, and methodology in financial planning research. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Planning, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, Financial Services Review, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of Financial Services Professionals, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and Journal of Financial Therapy, among others.

His research has been recognized with the 2014, 2017, and 2019 FPA Annual Conference Best Research Paper Award, the 2016 CFP Board's ACCI Financial Planning Award, and the 2016 Montgomery-Warschauer Award, which is awarded by the Journal of Financial Planning for the paper that provided the most outstanding contribution to the betterment of the profession in the previous year. Additionally, he was awarded the Kenneth Tremblay Early Career Housing Award from the Housing Education and Research Association in 2016 and the Richard L. D. Morse Early Career Award from the American Council on Consumer Interests in 2018.