Laura Hillary Mattia CFP®, Ph.D.


Women's Money Empowerment Network

3264 Walter Travis Drive
Sarasota FL 34240

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2014005685


 


 Dr. Mattia is the Managing Director for Bay Point Wealth Management, a fee-only firm in Sarasota where she enjoys helping individuals and families achieve their goals and improve their lives, including when they are going through a transition such as a divorce. She is also the Program Director of a newly created Personal Financial Planning Program at Muma College of Business, the University of South Florida where she has designed the degree to train a new breed of competent and ethical financial advisors. 
Dr. Mattia is a professor, researcher, author and adviser. She is the author of the forthcoming book "Gender On Wall Street: Uncovering Opportunities for Women in Financial Services" coming out spring 2018 from Palgrave Macmillan. She is also the founder of Women's Money Empowerment Network(TM), a community of women engaged in mastering money to improve their lives. The network provides education to women and mentorship to female financial advisers. She hosts an internet radio show, Women's Money Empowerment Network(TM) with Laura Mattia and she is the author of a financial news column and financial workbooks used to educate women. Dr. Mattia's workshops focus on teaching women how to make effective financial decisions and support female financial advisors to plan for success. Her research explores the gender gap in financial literacy and in financial leadership. 
Mattia's expertise is a unique combination of advanced financial degrees and certifications and over 30 years of financial leadership experience as a CFO/Controller for fortune 500 companies and Wall Street firms; as a Wealth Manager/Owner for fee-only firms preparing for retirement, and as a Finance Professor at universities. She received her Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning from Texas Tech University, a Masters in Business Administration in Accounting/Finance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Montclair State University.