Barry LaValley

Barry LaValley is a Canadian educator, writer and motivational speaker.

He founded the Retirement Lifestyle Center in 2000 and is an authority in North America on the life transition approach to financial planning, also known as "wealth management". He is a well known speaker on the subject in both Canada and the United States. In addition, Barry is a subject expert on retirement lifestyle issues and has consulted with several large Canadian financial institutions on the subject. He currently serves as a special consultant on retirement lifestlyle issues for the Scotiabank Group in Canada.In 2001, Barry collaborated with Mitch Anthony and Carol Anderson on the book "Your Clients for Life", considered the definative guide to the life planning approach to financial planning when it was first published. Since that time, Barry has written his second book, "Put the Life into Your Practice", a guide for Canadian Financial Advisors on the wealth management approach. He was named to the advisory counsel on Wealth Management for the Canadian Securities Institute in 2005 and was a contributing author and instructor on several of that institution's wealth management designation courses. In 2007, Barry was chosen to travel to Guangzhou China to teach wealth management implementation to a major Chinese financial institution.In addition to his work in the retirement and wealth management areas, Barry also teaches with the Canadian Academy of Senior Advisors and is an editor and author of its Canadian textbook. Barry LaValley lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia with his wife Melissa and son Peter.

External links

* [http://www.retirementlifestyle.com Retirement Lifestyle Center website]