Susan Bradley, CFP®, CeFT®, is the Founder of the Sudden Money® Institute (SMI), a think tank that created the Certified Financial Transitionist® designation (and the Financial Transitionist® Institute, which now delivers the advanced CeFT® training). For 23 years, Susan has been training ...more

Susan Bradley, CFP®, CeFT®, is the Founder of the Sudden Money® Institute (SMI), a think tank that created the Certified Financial Transitionist® designation (and the Financial Transitionist® Institute, which now delivers the advanced CeFT® training). For 23 years, Susan has been training financial advisors in the unique processes and tools SMI created for managing the human dynamics of financial change. She has served on the FPA’s National Board of Directors, she currently sits on the National Football League’s Players Association’s Financial Education Advisory Board, and she serves as the Dean of Transitions for the Council of Deans of the Purposeful Planning Institute. She is seen and heard frequently in the national media, including NBC’s Nightly News, CNN, NPR, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is the author of Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall (Wiley 2000), and her TEDx Wilmington Women talk is called, “Change launches you into the next great chapter of your life, whether you like it or not.”less