Thomas Henske

Tom was a 2x All-American soccer player who played for the 3x National Champion University of Virginia Cavaliers. He graduated from Virginia with the University’s Distinguished Student Honor.

After leaving the world of soccer, Tom started his current career of financial planning with Cowan Financial Group. While there, he started his own company, Henske Advisors, which was acquired by National Financial Partners. He is now one of seven partners nationwide for Lenox Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of NFP.

Tom holds professional designations of:

• Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC)
• Certified Life Underwriter (CLU)
• Certified in Long Term Care (CLTC)
• Certified Fund Specialist (CFS)
• Certified Tax Specialist (CTS)
• CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER (CFP^®)

With his clients and their conce s in mind, Tom developed a revolutionary effort, the Lenox Money-Smart Kids^™ Program. This age-based program provides resources, tools and information to foster independence, good judgment and responsible financial habits in children. The program focuses on values, helping to instill in children a sense that having money is not a right, but a privilege.

The program has struck a nerve both locally and nationally and as such Tom is frequently invited to speak with the media and at events. In fact, Dow Jones is so enthused about Money-Smart Kids, it allows Lenox to provide The Wall Street journal Classroom Edition to clients. It is the first and only exception to Dow Jones’s classroom-only distribution policy to date.

Besides working with individual clients on their financial planning needs, Tom has a vast and varied series of responsibilities, including:

• Overseeing Lenox’s marketing vision.
• Being a featured speaker at The Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) and named to their International Financial Literacy Committee.
• Acting as a faculty member of the estate planning division of Lawline.com where a number of his videos can be found.
• Sitting on the board for InvestmentNews Magazine.
• Contributing to Bottom Line Personal on their Panel of Experts for Financial Planning.

Tom recently completed a book, entitled “From Me to We,” in which he details the practice management success of Lenox.

He is active in the Westport Community writing a bi-weekly column for The Westport News called “Money Smart Kids” and is the assistant soccer coach for the Staples High School Boys Varsity Soccer Program.

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