2018 NAPFA Fall Conference Speaker

Marie Swift is President and CEO of Impact Communications (www.ImpactCommunications.org), a full-service marketing communications firm serving a select group of independent financial advisors and allied institutions. Marie has worked with financial advisory firms and allied institutions for over twenty years. Impact Communications works solely within the financial services industry. The firm has two service lines – one for highly-successful independent advisors and one for the institutions that support them. A thought leader for thought leaders, she is known for bringing some of the industry's best and brightest voices together for dialog and debate. Her Thought Leader Round Table series, which can be found at www.AdvisorsThinkTank.com, is just one example of how Marie generates interesting conversations with movers and shakers in the financial services industry. Her Best Practices in the Financial Services Industry blog, which can be found at www.MarieSwift.com, provides additional insights and advice, including podcasts, articles, videos and other helpful content for independent financial advisors and the institutions that serve them. Prior to establishing her own marketing communications firm in 1993, she served as Director of Corporate Communications for Worldwide Investment Network in Irvine, California, where she helped FNIC’s then #1 Top Producer attain and maintain that title for five consecutive years. She managed a staff of twenty that supported two-dozen successful registered representatives, estate planners and wealth managers.