Tanya Staples has plenty to celebrate this holiday season.

The professor of financial planning & research at Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s School of Business earned her Ph.D. in personal financial planning at Kansas State University after successfully defending her dissertation in October.

I first got to know Staples 25 years ago, while she was vice-president, business development and client relations at Corporate Benefit Analysts, a group benefits and retirement advisory firm in Kitchener, Ont., that was acquired by NFP in 2018. I was editor of Benefits Canada in those days, covering the employer-sponsored benefits, pensions and institutional investment industry.

In a business full of smart people, Staples stood out as a promising young leader. Even early in her career, she showed both confidence and curiosity. She knew enough to know she could spend the rest of her career learning.

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