Kathleen Adkins, High priestess of financial modeling.
Widely recognized as a dynamic, engaging instructor, Kathleen Adkins has taught modeling and financial analysis to thousands of analysts and finance professionals on Wall Street, in the City of London, and other locations worldwide. Since 1997 she has been the president of Adkins Matchett & Toy Ltd.
Kathleen's training experience includes founding The Adkins Group in 1984 to provide seminars in financial skills, presentation skills and management development. Her clients included large and small corporations, colleges, non-profits and individuals as well as investment banks in New York and Boston. Kathleen is a former director of management training at Savin Corporation, where she developed and ran the company's management training center. Kathleen was also vice president of Computer Curriculum Corporation, where she managed the company's curriculum development and customer training.
Kathleen Adkins holds BA and MS degrees from the University of Kentucky, and she studied for two years in Vienna. She is the author of Build Business Spreadsheets Using Excel 2000, 2nd Ed., the popular workbook on constructing financial models, as well as the new Download & Go Excel Prep for Financial Modeling.