Lydia P. Sheckels

Lydia Sheckels

Partner, CIO Emeritus and Senior Financial Advisor

Lydia Sheckels is Partner, CIO Emeritus and Senior Financial Advisor of Wescott.  With a professional background in financial planning and investment management, she practices in the areas of insurance analysis and planning, tax and cash flow management, and estate planning.  She is a Certified Financial Planner™, Chartered Life Underwriter® and Chartered Financial Consultant®.

Lydia serves on the firm’s Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB) Committee and Portfolio Strategy Group, which oversees the firm’s dynamic investment strategies, ongoing due diligence of Wescott’s investment managers and asset allocation design.  She is also a member of the Investment and Management Committees.

A recipient of the Five Star Wealth Manager of Philadelphia distinction from Philadelphia Magazine, Lydia has been a featured speaker at many professional and civic organizations on a number of topics.  Her advice has been regularly featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, Financial Planning Magazine, Financial Advisor, Mutual Fund Magazine, Investment News, CNNfn, thewhiz.com, Fidelity.com, Society of Financial Service Professionals’ Focus Magazine, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many other national and local publications.

A member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), Lydia joined NAPFA’s National Board in September 2017.  She proudly served as the Immediate Past Chair of NAPFA’s National Board of Directors for their 2021-2022 term and is a member of the NAPFA Public Policy Committee.  In addition, she is the past chair of the organization’s Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Region Board, was a member of NAPFA’s Leadership Development Committee, has served on the NAPFA University School of Practice Management, and was a member of the organization’s Speakers Bureau Content Review Committee.

Lydia served as a member of the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) National Ethics Committee, charged with investigating complaints and enforcing the FPA Code of Ethics.  She also served on the Practitioner Advisory Council and the Public Awareness Advisers of the International Association for Financial Planning.  She is past president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the International Association for Financial Planning and past president of the Estate and Financial Planning Council of Southern New Jersey.  Former president of the South Jersey Chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals, she has served as an instructor for the Chartered Financial Consultant® (ChFC®) designation courses sponsored by the Society.

Lydia earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Providence College.  She resides in Moorestown, New Jersey with her husband Tom Sheckels.  They have two adult children.

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S. which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.

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