Why mentoring is key for advisers: 2018 WIFA Award winner Sonia Wheeler

Adviser of the Year - South East

Sophie King
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WIFA Award winner Sonia Wheeler is a shining example of the significant part mentoring can play for women in financial services. Here she tells Sophie King how important mentoring has been in her career.

The talents of an impressive number of women were celebrated last October at Professional Adviser's inaugural Women in Financial Advice (WIFA) Awards - a great evening that saw Wheeler emerge with the Financial Adviser of the Year - South East gong and only narrowly pipped to the overall Financial Adviser of the Year prize, coming a close second to Tilney's Eliana Sydes.  Wheeler is the managing director of Essential Wealth Management, a Chartered financial planning firm with offices in Berkshire and Central London, and the story of how Wheeler came to run the firm is more gripping than ...

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