Christina Lynn CDFA®, CFP®, Ph.D.


Mariner Wealth Advisors

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Sioux Falls SD 57105

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Christina is a wealth management consultant, researcher, and lecturer.  Her financial planning style can be described as holistic and evidence-based, with a focus on life-planning and innovation.  She works full-time at Mariner Wealth Advisors as a Practice Management Consultant, and part-time as a wealth management lecturer at Columbia University.  Christina also serves as a research consultant for a digital asset firm, writing educational articles for financial advisors regarding the digital asset space.  Since 2015, she has owned and operated her own divorce financial services firm and has also worked as a financial planning practitioner. 

Christina is currently a doctoral candidate in personal financial planning at Kansas-State University.  Her research interests include behavioral finances, divorce finances, and digital assets. She strives to incorporate her research skills and knowledge into her work in wealth management. Likewise, she utilizes her experience as a financial planning practitioner to inform her academic research. She has been published in the Journal of Financial Planning and Counseling, as well as the Journal of Financial Planning

Christina holds a bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison and a master’s degree in family financial planning from South Dakota State University.  She holds several professional designations, including CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM (CFP®), Accredited Financial Counselor® (AFC®), Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® (CDFA®), and Certified Digital Asset AdvisorTM (CDAATM). She is also a member of PlannerDAO, a DAO for financial advisors, where she leads the research working group and is a member of the education working group.