Kristen is Managing Director of Red Star Wealth, a firm of financial planners she has led for more than 15 years. With over 25 years’ experience in financial planning, she has built a reputation for combining technical expertise with a genuinely people-focused approach, helping individuals, families, business owners and professional athletes make confident decisions about their financial futures.

Alongside her work at Red Star Wealth, Kristen is the founder of Red Star Education, delivering financial literacy and wellbeing programmes within many elite athlete development environments. She is also a certified Trauma of Money Coach, specialising in the emotional and psychological relationship people have with money, helping clients understand the experiences, beliefs and behaviours that shape their financial decisions and overall wellbeing.

Kristen is the resident financial expert on BBC Radio Lancashire’s mid morning show, the host of the Do I Have To Adult Now? podcast and regularly speaks on topics around Women & Financial Planning, Financial Wellbeing in Elite Sport and the physiological and emotional responses to money and wealth.