Dorothy Kistler is the Founder and CEO of T&D Kistler Enterprises, Inc., the parent company of Profe$$or Dollar Academy and Minors to Millionaires® (M2M). As CEO, she is the primary instructor for the courses and creates the curriculum used in all the classes. Dorothy leads and manages the other instructors across the country and around the world.
Dorothy is passionate about helping young people learn to become responsible productive members of society. This largely depends on their ability to earn an income, be savvy consumers and contribute to their future short and long-term goals. Their success depends on how soon they start learning the basic principles of personal financial management. Dorothy is eager to help young entrepreneurs start businesses and begin to build wealth. She wants to make sure everyone reaches adulthood as smart money managers who avoid consumer debt and have received the information they need to reach their goals early in life.
Dorothy began her passion for financial literacy after being a financial counselor while in the U.S. Air Force Comptroller division. At one point in her career, she was the Personal Financial Management Program leader for the largest American community outside of the United States. For 3 years, Dorothy led a team of counselors in a military community of more than 70,000 U.S. service members and their families. After seeing the problems adults had managing their personal finances, Dorothy conceived the idea that the best way to solve these issues was to teach proper personal financial principles to children.
After retiring from the Air Force and furthering her education, Dorothy founded Head$tart Financial $ervices, a ground breaking business teaching children about money. Similar to Profe$$or Dollar Academy, Head$tart Financial $ervices educated young people in personal financial skills and provided credit counseling to adults.
While managing and being the principle teacher for Head$tart Financial $ervices, Dorothy was also the chairperson of the Chamber of Commerce Business Education committee, Women of Excellence Award and Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Award. She was a member of Soroptimist International and chaired other scholarship award programs. Dorothy was a founding board member of the Vacaville Public Education Foundation, helped form the Vacaville Boys & Girls Club and served as Treasurer of the Vacaville Concert Society.
After moving to Florida, Dorothy continued to work with many local and faith-based organizations teaching financial principles to both children and adults. She provided counseling, education, Bible studies and other services to their organizations and helped improve the quality of life for the homeless and many others on various levels of the economic scale.
Dorothy has a Master’s degree in Management with a focus on Organizational Management and certificates in Entrepreneurship and Small Business from Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dorothy is a life member of the American Society of Military Comptrollers and the National Association of Female Executives.
