Event details
Join leaders from RBC Wealth Management for a virtual networking event to learn more about how you can build a career as a financial advisor. Charting your path as a financial advisor has never been easier than with RBC! From entry-level to seasoned-professionals, RBC Wealth Management offers incredible professional development opportunities and clear, distinct paths for you to excel in your career (interested in what career path is right for you? Take this quiz to find out!).
In addition to hearing from women leaders at RBC, participants will also learn:
- How they can build a career with the company
- The inside scoop on company culture, including how #WomenofRBC are supported throughout their careers
- What life as a financial advisor looks like
From incredible flexibility to unparalleled networking opportunities, women rave about working at RBC Wealth Management!
Meet the speakers
Reva Shakkottai, CFA
RBC Financial Advisor
Reva is a seasoned financial advisor and portfolio manager based in Los Angeles, California. Her strategies for growing and protecting wealth have been featured on CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business Network, and in Marie Claire, On Wall Street and Los Angeles Business Journal as well as other business media. Reva brings the distinction of having an extensive background in finance and economics. Since 1997, she has managed equity and fixed income portfolios for high-net-worth investors, corporate executives and owners of middle market companies. Before joining RBC Wealth Management, she worked at some of the largest, most prestigious firms on Wall Street, including Lehman Brothers/ Neuberger Berman, Bank of America and Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. A graduate of the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, in business administration, Reva earned her MBA in finance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst® and a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society Los Angeles. The CFA charter is the most globally recognized credential measuring the competence and integrity of financial analysts and portfolio managers. Reva lives in Manhattan Beach, California and is on the UCLA Anderson Alumni Board of Directors, where she represents her graduating class as alumni class president. She is on the board of directors of Wayfinder Family Services and a member of the Finance Committee, which oversees the endowment. She is also a member of the Beverly Hills Estate Planning Council, which collaborates on progressive estate planning techniques.
Kirstin Turner
Complex Director, South Atlantic Complex
As the Complex Director for RBC Wealth Management’s South Atlantic Complex, Kirstin brings over 20 years of industry experience as both a successful financial advisor and branch manager to her role. The Southeast is a growing market and Kirstin believes that RBC Wealth Management is a unique firm in the industry - a boutique firm feel with the products and services of a large investment firm and the financial strength of The Royal Bank of Canada, one of the world's strongest banks. Kirstin’s Complex is one of RBC Wealth Management’s largest markets with approximately 140 Financial Advisors managing close to $20 billion of client assets. Kirstin mentors and supports the financial advisors and branch directors within her complex to help remove roadblocks so they can focus on running their own businesses and on their clients. She has a commitment to diversity in the workplace with an emphasis on introducing and bringing more female advisors into the South Atlantic Complex. She is very engaged in her community through her involvement in local non-profit’s including Adopt A Family of the Palm Beaches, Loggerhead Marine Life Center and runs a financial literacy program in partnership with her husband at their local high school. Kirstin is also dedicated to her family and her health. She was raised in Florida and is a graduate of Florida State University. She lives in Jupiter, Florida with her husband, Telby, and their three children.
Gabrielle Clemens
JD, LLM, AEP, CDFA
Gabrielle joined the financial services industry after working several years as both a divorce and trust and estate attorney with an emphasis on tax. A graduate of Boston University’s School of Law, she has also earned a graduate law degree in taxation (LLM). Although she has a broad-based clientele, Gabrielle primarily works with high-net worth divorced and divorcing individuals and couples. Highly recognized for her contributions to the financial services industry, Gabrielle hosts divorce financial planning educational events, webinars, podcasts, seminars and workshops throughout the country. Gabrielle is a frequent guest on local and national media outlets, and is a sought after public speaker. Significant life changes, whether expected or not, present short-term and long-term financial challenges, and the emotional and financial concerns require thoughtful, practical solutions designed specifically for the client. Gabrielle works with her client’s team of advisors, including attorneys, accountants, trustees, mediators and collaborative professionals to provide clarity and transparency on critical financial issues. She helps her clients take control of their financial life by guiding them through a unique process of identifying and understanding their values and goals through learning about their life, values, and wealth perspective. Gabrielle creates custom financial solutions and strategies by isolating and analyzing her client’s needs, wants and desires through a written wealth plan. Once the plan is implemented, she monitors the economy, stock market and investment portfolio, and recommends adjustments and rebalancing. Gabrielle’s goal is to educate and empower her clients to make sound, critical financial decisions today with the future in focus.