Jacquette M. Timmons is known for leading thought-provoking conversations about money, choices, relationships, and life. She is the author of Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate, the creator of the Financial Intimacy Conference and the founder and CEO of Sterling Investment Management, an investment education and financial coaching firm.
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Jacquette M. Timmons, the author of “Financial Intimacy” and creator of the Financial Intimacy Conference, is known for leading thought-provoking conversations about money, choices, relationships, and life. An investment expert and financial coach, she is the founder of Sterling Investment Management, an investment education and financial coaching firm. She has worked in the investment industry for twenty-four years, dedicating more than a decade to teaching intelligent people how to be smarter with their money. Ms. Timmons holds an MBA in finance from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business and a BS in marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Ms. Timmons conducts numerous personal finance and stock market investing workshops throughout the year and is a sought-after speaker on the intersection of money and life. Her recent media appearances include CNN’s “Your $$$$$” with Christine Romans and Ali Velshi and “Your Bottom Line” and “The Help Desk” with Gerri Willis, American Public Media’s “Marketplace Money” with Tess Vigeland, CBS Radio’s “Rules of Engagement” with Amber Kelleher-Andrews on KFWB 980 – Los Angeles, WBAI’s “Women: Body & Soul” with Nathalie Thandiwe, “Your Time with Kim Iverson,” – a syndicated radio show, “The Joey Reynolds Show” on WOR Radio, “Black Enterprise Business Report,” Bloomberg Radio, BET Tonight’s “Nightly News”, WNBC’s “Today in New York” and Fox TV’s “Good Day New York” and “Good Day Street Talk.” She has been quoted in the NY Daily News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette and the Wall Street Journal, and has written for or been quoted in magazines such as REDBOOK, Essence Magazine, Curve Magazine, Forbes.com, the Root.com, Match.com’s Happen, Real Simple, Teen Vogue, Black Enterprise, Heart and Soul, gURL.com, Kuji Magazine (a life-style guide to self-enrichment), Glory (a Christian women’s magazine) and the 1997 book Doing It For Ourselves – Success Stories of African-American Women in Business. She has also hosted The Street: Making Your Money Work for You, a weekly televised investment education program.
Prior to creating Sterling in 1995, Ms. Timmons spent nine years with Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank). The last five years of her tenure were spent in the Private Bank. Among her many accomplishments was the successful launching of Private Investment Planning, an advisory business targeted primarily to emerging affluent individuals and smaller institutions. She served as the sole manager of this business unit for two years and was responsible for business development, client servicing and operations management.
Ms. Timmons is a member of the New York Chapter of the National Black MBA Association and is on the Board of Directors for Non-Profit Connection, an organization that provides management assistance to non-profit organizations, and The Laundromat Project, a Brooklyn-based arts organization committed to making visual art more accessible to communities of color living on low incomes. She is also a former member of the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the National Association of Securities Professionals, an organization she co-founded.
