Financial coaching has gained recognition as a strategy that can improve financial capability and security. Yet within this advancing field of practice, many questions remain.  What is the current size of the field?  How is financial coaching being implemented?  How do organizations, coaches, and funders measure success? And what is needed to support more effective […]

J. Michael Collins provides an overview of Financial Coaching as a useful technique to help families increase their financial capability and security. This essay, published for the WPR series Literacy in Wisconsin, characterizes the differences between coaching, counseling and education, and discusses recent research and efforts that have increased financial coaching’s traction in the field […]