Stacey TisdaleOn air journalist Stacey Tisdale has reported on business and financial issues for more than 15 years. Ms. Tisdale authored a book which was released in September 2007, titled The True Cost of Happiness:  The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money (publisher: John Wiley & Sons).  A financial expert, Stacey appears on NBC’s Today Show, and reports for “Need to Know,” a weekly national broadcast on PBS.  Ms. Tisdale is also a contributor to WowOWow.com, a website for women.From 2002 to 2004, Stacey filed business and consumer reports for all of the CNN networks, including, CNN, Headline News and Marketsource which serves more than 600 local stations.  Ms. Tisdale also reported for “Inside Africa,” a weekly news magazine show on CNN International.  During this period, Stacey Tisdale contributed reports to “Money Talks,” the nationally syndicated program created by BusinessWeek.A member of the elite Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Ms. Tisdale has appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” as a financial expert and has been quoted in O magazine.Her experience also includes hosting and anchoring on “Tech Live,” TechTV’s daily news program.  In addition, Ms. Tisdale was a business correspondent for CBS MarketWatch, The Early Show, CBS Evening News, and CBS Radio.Stacey’s journalistic career began at Dow Jones & Co.  For 7 years, she produced, wrote, and eventually reported and hosted programming for Wall Street Journal Television, which eventually became CNBC.  Prior to that, Ms. Tisdale was a writer for Dow Jones newswire service, Telerate.Ms. Tisdale’s broadcasting career came after her work on Wall Street as a cash manager for the commodities firm Balfour Maclaine International.  Her responsibilities included managing as much as $70 million a day.  Ms. Tisdale has also worked on the floor of the Coffee Sugar Coca Exchange.Stacey Tisdale graduated from Marymount College in 1988, where she studied international business and finance, and she attended Polytechnic of Central London in England.Ms. Tisdale has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Cuba.  She is a board member and advisor for John Hope Bryant’s financial literacy organization, Operation Hope:  http://www.operationhope.org/smdev/.  Stacey has authored a personal finance curriculum for college students on behalf of The White House and Operation HOPE.  The program was mandatory for students at Spelman College, beginning school year 2008-2009. It is now being adopted by Historically Black Colleges across the United States.  Ms. Tisdale is also a board member of the YWCA in Greenwich, Connecticut.Stacey Tisdale also creates financial education and life skills programs for professional sports teams and corporations based on her research including WNBA team the Washington Mystics,  the NFL Super Bowl champion New York Giants, and the female employees of Microsoft.Paula Boyer Kennedy, CPA, PFS, CFP®, CIMA®, AIF®Paula Boyer Kennedy is a Vice President at Cammack LaRhette Consulting in lower Manhattan. She is a subject matter expert on investing and financial education. Paula is a Certified Public Accountant (NJ) and Personal Financial Specialist and also holds the Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) designations. She received her AB in English from Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1978 and her MBA from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1980. Prior to CLC, Paula was a senior manager at Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche in their personal financial planning practices.Paula received a 2006 APEX award for her teamwork on a communications campaign for a Fortune Global 100 manufacturing company. She was named by Worth magazine as one of the 250 best financial advisors in America in 1999, 2001 and 2002. She was recognized as one of Minneapolis’ Most Innovative Women by CityBusiness in 2000. She was profiled in the Spring, 1999 issue of Cornell Enterprise and the September, 1998 issue of Dow Jones Investment Advisor. Paula has been featured on CBS, PBS, and NPR, has appeared on CNN, Reuters, radio and online chat forums, and has been quoted in such publications as: The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, The Journal of Retirement Planning, RealSimple, Woman’s Day, Working Mother, Parents and The St. Paul Pioneer Press. She is one of the co-authors of Ernst & Young’s Financial Planning for Women, published in January of 1999. She wrote the chapter on investment risk in Selling Your Business, published in May of 2004. She has just co-authored, with Stacey Tisdale, The True Cost of Happiness, to be published by Wiley in September of 2007.Paula is past Chairman and President of the Central New Jersey Society of the Institute of Certified Financial Planners. She has served on the ICFP’s National Technology Committee. She has also served on boards for the Financial Planning Association, TIAA-CREF Institute, the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey, the Trenton Computer Festival, and the Baldwin School.