John E. Grable

Professor and Program Director, Graduate Certificate Program

Faculty Advisor, Graduate Certificate, Undergraduate and Master’s Programs

Professor, Doctoral Program

Dr. John Grable, CFP®, RFC holds the Vera Mowery McAninch Professor of Human Development and Family Studies professorship at Kansas State University. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and business from the University of Nevada, an MBA from Clarkson University, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He is the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. and International Association of Registered Financial Consultants registered undergraduate and graduate program director at Kansas State University. Teams of undergraduate financial planning students mentored by Dr. Grable have won the National Collegiate Financial Planning Championship in 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2006. Dr. Grable also serves as the director of The Institute of Personal Financial Planning at K-State.

Prior to entering the academic profession he worked as a pension/benefits administrator and later as a Registered Investment Advisor in an asset management firm. Dr. Grable served as the founding editor for the Journal of Personal Finance, a rigorous peer-reviewed research journal. His research interests include financial risk-tolerance assessment, financial planning help-seeking behavior, and financial wellness assessment.

He has been the recipient of several research and publication awards and grants, and is active in promoting the link between research and financial planning practice where he has published more than 60 refereed papers. Dr. Grable served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Registered Financial Consultants (IARFC), as Treasurer for the American Council on Consumer Interest (ACCI), and on the Research Advisory Council of the Take Charge America Institute (TCAI) for Consumer Education and Research at the University of Arizona. In 2004 he won the prestigious Cato Award for Distinguished Journalism in the Field of Financial Services, and in 2006 he was honored with the IARFC Founders Award. In 2007 Dr. Grable was awarded the Dawley-Scholer Award for Faculty Excellence in Student Development.

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Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, and CFP (with flame logo)®, which it awards to individuals who successfully complete initial and ongoing certification requirements. K-State does not certify individuals to use the CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP (with flame logo)® certification marks. CFP® Certification is granted only by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. to those persons who, in addition to completing an educational requirement such as this CFP Board-Registered Program, have met its ethics, experience and examination requirements.