How to Find a Financial Advisor

How Kaya Ladejobi helps executive women push past fear and shame to freedom and flexibility

I didn’t know I needed a financial advisor, but my mentor - a Black executive from Kraft and board chair for many for-profit organizations --  did.

So, she sent me a financial planning book from Schwab.

When I received the 1,000-page missive. I did then what any self-respecting and well-educated woman of a certain age and means would do: I put it in a b…