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Mike DeVilling The DeVilling Group, LLC (248) 875-4207 mjdevilling@yahoo.com Michael Kastler Kastler Consulting Group, LLC (248) 705-0292 mkastler@kastlerconsultinggroup.com
Leading Financial Wellness Coaches Team Up to Help Consumers Optimize Personal Finances
(Troy, MI, Sept. 6, 2011) – Levanto Financial and Kastler Consulting Group today announced a strategic alliance to help more consumers achieve financial wellness. Levanto’s and Kastler’s combination of personal coaching services, cash-flow planning software, thought leadership and do-it-yourself tools, provide a long-term, sustainable support system which will help clients improve their financial performance, regardless of their current situation.
Levanto Financial provides personal financial coaching including cash-flow planning, bill-pay concierge and shopping for lower cost goods and services to help clients better run their households. Kastler Consulting Group, founded by financial wellness author Michael Kastler, provides its clients with both personal coaching and software supported budgeting and expense tracking tools.
“The addition of Michael Kastler, his coaching expertise and software tools complement our personal coaching model and provide clients with an extraordinary long-term solution to help optimize and maintain effective household finances,” said Paul Cloutier, president and CEO of Levanto Financial. “Some of our clients, financial service firm partners, and employer partners have told us they love our coaching services, but they also value self-help tools and workbooks that provide alternatives to the personal coaching approach. This alliance gives our clients, and Kastler’s clients, the best of both worlds.”
In today’s extremely volatile economy, it is more important than ever that people proactively manage their income and expenses to ensure a path to financial wellness. Levanto Financial’s clients are clearly on the right path. Levanto Financial clients average an annual savings of $13,000, 10 percent improvement in credit scores, a 34 percent reduction in credit card debt, and virtually eliminated late fees or penalties.
Kastler is the author of the budgeting book “Get a GRASP on your Budget and Your Cash.” GRASP stands for Gather all your financial data, Record, Analyze, Set up budgets and accounts and Pay off debt. The book and its supporting software will now be made available to all Levanto Financial clients. In addition, Kastler will work as a personal budgeting coach for Levanto clients and as a consultant to Levanto’s financial coaches.
“The GRASP system offers clients an opportunity to be further engaged in the goal-oriented financial wellness process,” Kastler said. “We’ve made the workbook and software easy-to-use with great visuals for the client to track their monthly march toward their financial goals. When combined with Levanto’s powerful coaching and sustainability techniques, this is a combination that will be beneficial to anyone looking to get on or stay on the path to financial wellness. I see Levanto filling an important void in the marketplace and I’m excited to offer this service to my new and existing clients.”
With many individuals scrambling to find employment, learning to live at a new lower level of income, or adjusting to a life-changing event, Levanto Financial and Kastler Consulting Group have a proven, methodical approach to financial wellness.
About Levanto Financial
Levanto Financial was founded to fill a long-standing void in the personal finance industry and deliver a financial wellness solution that helps busy consumers manage their day-to-day financial activities. The company’s unique positioning creates significant value for individuals, families, employers and financial services firms. The Levanto Financial Wellness Platform integrates proprietary software technology, 3rd party web services, and proprietary workflow with coaches to deliver budgeting, benchmarking, best practices, context-specific content, account monitoring, bill-pay and other services in a highly secure and scalable manner.
About Kastler Consulting Group
Kastler Consulting Group was founded with a mission to help “Build Stronger Individuals, Communities and Businesses.” Since its inception in 2009 and the publishing of its first financial wellness workbook, and its highly rated Budgeting Money Tips website and blog, KCG has helped thousands of individuals across the nation. Based on solid financial principles and easy-to-use software worksheets, KCG brings goal-based budgeting, virtual envelopes, and financial wellness metrics to life right on your computer screen.
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