Corinna Dieters to Lead FPSB toward Long-Term Vision: Financial Planning as a Distinct Profession

DENVER – 22 February 2010 – With an eye toward the future of the financial planning profession, Australian strategic consultant Corinna Dieters assumes her role on 1 April as 2010 board chairperson for Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB), the preeminent international standards-setting body for financial planning and the owner of the CFP, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER and CFP Logo marks outside the United States. A two-year veteran of FPSB’s governing body, Dieters plans to help FPSB set its strategic vision for achieving global recognition for financial planning as a distinct profession.

As director of strategic consulting firm Seaview Consulting, Dieters, 47, specializes in the areas of strategic decision-making, governance and business best practice.  With more than 20 years of experience advising organizations in the financial planning profession, Dieters was a director of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) of Australia from 2002, and chairperson from November 2005 to 2007.  She also worked as a director for HLB Mann Judd Financial Services, a boutique financial planning firm in Australia. Dieters holds a bachelor’s degree in education and a post-graduate qualification in business management.

“Our vision, which we’re calling ‘FPSB 2025,’ is for financial planning to be recognized as a distinct profession, like accounting, law and medicine, by the year 2025. Although financial planning is gaining prominence as a professional practice globally, many people who call themselves financial planners have little training or oversight. Our goal is to benefit the public by developing rigorous competency, ethics and professional practice standards for the financial planning profession inline with consumer and community expectations. This is evidenced by the efforts of the FPA in Australia in its Code of Ethics and Professional Standards for members of the Association,” Dieters said. “I’m honored to lead the board at such a critical time, and look forward to working with FPSB’s 23 member organizations to achieve our vision.”

FPSB’s 2010 board is comprised of 10 voting directors and one non-voting director from eight territories.  The FPSB Council, an advisory group representing 23 organizations that administer CFP certification programs in their respective territories around the world, supports FPSB’s Board of Directors.

As chairperson of the FPSB Council in 2009, Corinna led the Council in ratifying global standards for financial planner experience and continuing professional development. “Corinna’s organizational leadership and operational know-how will serve FPSB well as we take bold steps to develop a global financial planning profession whose members commit to placing clients’ interests first,” said FPSB CEO Noel Maye.

About FPSB
FPSB manages, develops and operates certification, education and related programs for financial planning organizations to benefit the global community by establishing, upholding and promoting worldwide professional standards in financial planning. FPSB demonstrates its commitment to excellence with the marks of professional distinction – CFP, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER and CFP Logo Mark. Territories where FPSB has a nonprofit member organization include: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chinese Taipei, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. For more, visit fpsb.org or follow the organization at twitter.com/fpsb or facebook/fpsb1.

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