Kathleen Burns Kingsbury is an internationally published author, coach and consultant. Her firm, KBK Wealth Connection, delivers confidence-building negotiation programs specifically designed for women. Kathleen knows what it means to struggle with negotiating and has learned what it takes to shift fear into focus so that women advisors, coaches and consultants can charge for their value, make more sales, and feel great about it. She is currently working on her sixth book, Unleash Your True ValueTM: How to Shift Your Negotiation Mindset, Boost Your Confidence. and Close More Sales.

Kathleen has a unique blend of business negotiating experience and expertise in financial psychology that makes her programs extremely effective in changing mindsets and behaviors to achieve better results.

• Created the first Strategic Business Negotiation course for Champlain College and serves as adjunct faculty in the School of Business Management.
• Holds a certificate in negotiations from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
• Served as an adjunct professor at various colleges, including Bentley University’s Graduate School of Law and Taxation, where she taught the Psychology of Financial Planning in the CFP® Program for ten years.
• Holds a master’s degree in psychology from Lesley University and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Providence College.

Known as a trailblazer in the field of women and wealth, Kathleen has dedicated her career to empowering advisors and related professionals to be more emotionally and gender intelligent in their client engagements. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, PBS News Hour, Money Magazine, TODAY Money, Forbes, and CNBC. She was named one of nine amazing conference speakers by InvestmentNews and for the last 15 years has been a sought-after keynote speaker and consultant in the financial services industry.

When she is not working with her clients on negotiating to make more money and feel great about it, Kathleen is an avid alpine skier who lives for the next powder day. In the off-season, she enjoys mountain biking, kayaking, and laughing with her friends. She lives with her husband in the beautiful Mad River Valley of Vermont.