Helen H Jardine
Managing Director|CLU®, ChFC®, CFP®, RICP®, CLF®
Catalyst empowering people to achieve their dreams
As a Managing Director for Northwestern Mutual-St. Louis in both Creve Coeur, MO and Edwardsville, IL, I help people learn how a career as a Northwestern Mutual financial advisor or intern can provide the rewards and opportunities of self-employment—flexibility, having a positive impact on people’s lives, and virtually unlimited earning potential.
As a financial advisor, you have all the advantages of being in business for yourself, but you're not alone. We help you develop your business and marketing plans, provide extensive training and coaching from certified trainers, and offer access to our office’s knowledgeable group of financial professionals to help you launch your career.
I am seeking highly-motivated, self-disciplined, driven, entrepreneurial women and men to join our growing diverse team at Northwestern Mutual-St. Louis and help make our communities THE most financially secure in the world. If you would like to learn more, reach out to me at helen.jardine@nm.com or 314-539-0896.
Specialties
Leadership + Career Development | Building Relationships + Strong Teams | Career Coaching | Systems Development | Strategic Planning | Recruiting | Development | Professional Mentoring | Financial Recruiting | Job Search Strategy Planning | Career Programming | Diversity and Inclusion | Women | Military Transition Hiring | New Hire Onboarding | Training | Permanent Placement | Internships + Top 10 Internships | College Recruiting + Corporate Recruiting | Employee Development | Career Assessment Facilitation | Financial and Personal Development Seminars
A little bit about me
As a Managing Director, I help people find satisfying careers in financial planning and coach and develop them to achieve their potential.
In 2018, I was named the first female District Director with Northwestern Mutual-St. Louis. I am passionate about bringing more diversity to the Northwestern Mutual-St. Louis team and providing a better reflection of our community.
In 2016, I founded the Kickass Chicks Mastermind Group which is a monthly meeting of like-minded entrepreneurial women who connect to grow and support each other.
I joined Northwestern Mutual in 2008 and coached advisors to think like business owners and manage their practice. I became Chief Development Officer with Northwestern Mutual – St. Louis in 2015. I have also attended Northwestern Mutual Certified Coach and Certified Trainer workshops and participated in the Northwestern Mutual Women’s Leadership Program, LD1 and LD2.
Here are my areas of expertise
Financial Planning
Insurance Protection Strategies
Life Insurance Strategies
Retirement Planning & Income Strategies
Education Planning & Funding
Disability Planning
Multigenerational Planning
Estate Planning
Personal
Prior to joining Northwestern Mutual, I started my first small business in 1994. I was a co-owner of Cor Productions, Inc., a video production and marketing coaching company located in St. Louis, MO. In 1996, I won the SBA Award for Young Entrepreneur for Eastern Missouri, and in 2004 I won the SBA Region VII Award for Women in Business Advocate. I have served on the board of the St. Louis Chapter of the American Marketing Association, as well as, the Emerson Center for Business Ethics. I was a founding board member of the St. Louis Sales Professional Association and a co-founder of the St. Louis Women Entrepreneur’s Lunch Group. I've been a guest on the radio program Entrepreneurs Live! and guest speaker for SCORE (Service Corp of Retired Executives). I was also interviewed for the book Big Vision, Small Business by Jamie Walters and a contributor to the book Execute to Win by René Vidal and Steve Finkelstein.
Cor Productions, Inc. received awards for business excellence from SCORE and the St. Louis Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Cor was featured in Fortune Small Business, the Wall Street Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Small Business Monthly, the St. Louis Business Journal, and on the SCORE web site.
I taught fifth grade in East Los Angeles through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps after graduating from Loyola University in New Orleans with a degree in Broadcast Production.
Outside the office, I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. My husband, Bill, and I have been married since 1997. We have 2 children, Danielle and Tyler. I served as a Girl Scout Troop Leader for my daughter for six years.
Lending a hand in my community.
As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)
ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.
Beads of Courage
Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.
How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.
When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.
Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.
It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.
