Ilyse Glink

Author, Speaker, Financial Wellness Advocate, Founder/CEO of Best Money Moves LLC

Chicago

Ilyce Glink is an award-winning television and radio personality, a communications and media strategist, an innovator in content marketing and the founder of four Chicago-based companies. Her best-known website is ThinkGlink.com.

She is an award-winning, financial journalist, nationally-syndicated columnist, a top blogger for CBSNews.com, a best-selling author, and a radio talk show host for WGN Radio. She is the author of more than a dozen books, including the best-selling 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask. She spent 8 years as on-air talent/producer for WGN-TV and nearly 18 years hosting a top-rated Sunday talk show and filling in for syndicated talk show host Clark Howard for WSB-AM, in Atlanta, has hosted two syndicated radio programs, and has appeared on every major network’s morning news programs, Oprah, CNBC, CNN, and Fox Business.

Her latest company is Best Money Moves, a cloud-based, mobile-first financial wellness solution that companies provide to their employees to help them pay down personal debt and improve their financial lives. The result is lower turnover, absenteeism and financial stress, higher employee engagement and productivity, and better health outcomes.

Glink has won numerous awards throughout her career from the National Association of Real Estate Editors and the Society of Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). She also received the first Money $mart award from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and two Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club. In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy® Award. She was co-founder of the Medicare Newsgroup, and part of the team that won the 2012 Web Marketing Association’s award for outstanding achievement in web development for MedicareNewsGroup.com. In 2017, Best Money Moves was a finalist by HR Tech in the Next Great HR Tech Company Competition.