Tim is the Credit Counselling Society’s Financial Educator for Manitoba and the GTA, he is based out of Winnipeg. Tim has over 30 years experience in Financial Services and is a retired Certified Financial Planner (CFP). Tim has also completed the Canadian Securities Course (Hons.) has achieved his Certificate In Management (C.I.M.) Hons. and is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance (Hons). Tim believes strongly in the power of education, planning and acting on your plan.
Tim has been with Credit Counselling Society for over 8 years, prior to that he worked extensively with Investors Group, Assante Asset Management and for 2 year contracts at Custom House (a currency exchange business) and Mogo Financial. Tim maintains his relationship with the Financial Services industry where he works with advisors, clients and staff to help them better understand the nature of debt. Tim also works with individual businesses and professional associations, has written articles for various magazines and publications both inside and outside of the EFAP industry and appeared on CTV and Global.
Credit Counselling Society is a non-profit focusing on helping Canadians navigate our financial system. We Help. We Educate. We Give Hope. We help individuals and families achieve financial well-being through education, objective confidential credit counselling, budget review and preparation, the correct use of credit and with debt repayment alternatives. We have been around for over 26 years and in that time have helped over 1 million Canadians, educated nearly 150,000 and assisted our clients in repaying nearly $3/4 Billion of debt. We do not loan money, we focus on education and assistance.