Carol Lee Roberts, CFP®, CDFA®, is the President of the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts™, and has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®, Certified Financial Transitionist, and Certified Cybersecurity Business Professional designations.

Carol Lee received her undergraduate degree from Augustana College and her Master’s Degree in Financial Planning from DePaul University. As the Director of the Office of Professional and Continuing Education at DePaul University, her Financial Planning Education Center had the third-largest Financial Planning Certificate program in the country and also offered classroom courses for the CDFA® designation. Carol Lee also has experience in the field of certification having served as the Managing Director of Education and Examination at the CFP Board of Standards in Washington, D.C., and has also obtained the Institute for Credentialing Excellence Certified Credentialing Professional designation. 

As President of IDFA, she has seen the number of certificants in both Canada and the U.S. grow substantially and hosts an annual conference that continues to grow significantly year over year.  Carol Lee authored the publications Tools & Techniques and Divorce Planning. and is the editor of the Divorce Survival Guide. 

Donna M. Cheswick has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry as a Financial Advisor. She is also the owner of Cheswick Divorce Solutions LLC, located in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Education is the backbone of her business, and over the years she has taught workshops and CLE's on a wide variety of topics relating to finance and divorce, authored numerous articles for local/national print and online publications and has been a guest speaker on a variety of podcasts. She is a CDFA, Certified QDRO Specialist (CQSTM), a trained divorce mediator and a collaborative financial neutral.