Day 3b Concurrent Sessions > Financial Literacy That Works
Presenter: Kevin Cochran, Co-Founder/President, Enriched Academy
Description: Students are looking at a future with much promise but also great uncertainty in our post-Covid world. Preparing students to meet the financial challenges and responsibilities they will face is critical for lifelong success after school.
Enriched Academy, Canada’s leader in personal finance education, is on a mission to make financial freedom accessible to everyone through an inspiring, entertaining, and engaging platform of online resources and virtual training sessions. The reliable, straightforward advice provided by Enriched is completely unbiased and has already helped over 200,000 individual Canadians create a better financial future. Enriched Academy also supports many prominent Canadian organizations and corporations with their programs including Alberta Education, the National Police Federation, and the Canadian Football League Players? Association.
This session will give participants an overview of what thousands of students across the country are learning and how this unique, entertaining and engaging approach to financial education inspires students to action and sets them up for lifelong success.
Join us for a fun and inspiring information session that will cover key financial topics that students need to know, including:
- Popular money myths and how they hold us back
- Pros and cons of credit cards and how to properly use them
- Top student spending mistakes and how to avoid them
- Good debt vs bad debt
- Consequences of student loan default and top strategies to pay off your loan effectively
- The basics of investing and how to get started