Emilie Bellet
Financial stress is one of the largest unmeasured drags on workforce performance, and it lands disproportionately on women. Employers invest heavily in wellbeing, pay equity and inclusion, yet the money conversation itself remains taboo inside most organisations. The gap shows up in retention, confidence, promotion readiness and who puts their hand up for the next stretch role.
Emilie Bellet is the founder of Vestpod and the author of “You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich”, and she helps employers turn financial confidence, especially for women, into a practical part of their wellbeing and inclusion agenda.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Emilie Bellet
- She has built one of the UK’s largest women-focused financial education communities from scratch, which gives her a live read on what employees actually ask, avoid and misunderstand about money.
- She pairs a Lehman Brothers and Trilantic private equity background with a mass-market book and weekly podcast, so she can move between a CFO audience and a shop-floor audience without shifting register.
- Her work gives employers a concrete way to connect financial wellbeing, pay equity and retention of senior women, three agendas that are usually owned by different teams and rarely joined up.
- She is a named voice in the UK financial media (Financial Times, The i Paper, Vogue, BBC), which makes her credible to finance services clients where brand risk around money content is high.
Biography highlights
- Founder and CEO of Vestpod, a financial education platform and community for women.
- Author of “You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich” (Octopus / Little, Brown) and contributor to “The WealthTech Book” (Wiley).
- Host of “The Wallet”, a weekly personal finance podcast.
- Columnist for the Financial Times and The i Paper; featured in Vogue, Forbes, BBC, The Guardian, Stylist and Courier.
- Former private equity professional at Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking and Trilantic Capital Partners, London.
- Named in the Women in FinTech Powerlist (Rising Stars) and shortlisted for Disruptor of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards.
Biography
Most financial education inside large employers stops at pensions and payroll. It rarely answers the questions people actually carry into Monday morning: how to invest a first bonus, whether to buy, how to talk about money with a partner, what to do with a redundancy package. Vestpod was built to close that gap, and it has become one of the UK’s most engaged communities on women and money.
The founder’s route in is unusual. Emilie spent seven years in private equity at Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking and Trilantic Capital Partners in London before leaving the buy-side to build a platform she felt the market was not serving. That background matters for corporate audiences because she is not a lifestyle commentator, she is a former investor who now translates institutional finance into language a general workforce can use.
The work has two sides that employers buy together. “You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich”, published by Octopus, codified the personal finance curriculum; the weekly newsletter, The Wallet podcast and Money Matters festival keep it current. Inside companies, that content becomes workshops on investing basics, the gender wealth gap and financial confidence, delivered for names including Amazon, BCG, Coutts, NatWest and Palo Alto Networks.
Her media footprint is the credibility backstop. Regular columns in the Financial Times and The i Paper, plus coverage in Vogue, Forbes, BBC and The Guardian, put her in front of the audience senior HR and DEI teams are trying to reach, and give risk-sensitive financial services clients a known name they can put on a programme.
Key speaking topics
- Women and wealth
- Financial wellbeing in the workplace
- The gender wealth and investment gap
- Personal finance and investing fundamentals
- Financial confidence and money mindset
- WealthTech and financial inclusion
- Entrepreneurship and building a consumer brand
Ideal for
- CHROs and heads of reward designing financial wellbeing into benefits strategy
- DEI and women’s network leads who need content beyond mentoring and panels
- Financial services and WealthTech firms running client-facing events for women investors
- Internal International Women’s Day, Financial Wellness Month and employee festival programmes
Audience outcomes
- A clear picture of where the gender wealth gap comes from and which levers an employer can actually pull
- Specific language and frameworks employees can use to take the next step on saving, investing or debt
- Renewed confidence to engage with pension, share scheme and investment decisions that many defer by default
- A sharper internal case for treating financial wellbeing as part of retention and inclusion strategy, not a standalone perk
Talks
A practical session on personal finance fundamentals, goal-setting and building day-to-day financial confidence across a workforce.
Key takeaways:
- A simple structure for budgeting, saving and debt that employees can apply immediately
- Language for talking about money at home and at work without shame or jargon
- A view of how financial stress shows up in engagement and retention data
A keynote for International Women’s Day and women’s networks on why women end up with less wealth and what employers and individuals can do about it.
Key takeaways:
- The specific drivers of the gender wealth and investment gap in the UK
- Where employer policy and culture quietly widen the gap
- Concrete actions for senior women and for the teams designing their benefits
An accessible session that demystifies investing for employees and client audiences who have never put money into markets.
Key takeaways:
- How markets, risk and compounding actually work in plain English
- The main vehicles available in the UK and how to choose between them
- How to start investing small and build a habit that compounds over a career
Videos
Testimonials
Books
Fees
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