Megan Blackmer is the Relationship Manager for Strategic Retirement Partners. She has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years.
Megan’s career has taken her through companies big and small and given her exposure to many sides of the financial services industry. Megan came to SRP from Principal Financial Group where she worked closely with plan sponsors and plan participants to design and implement plan communications and education strategies. Before joining Principal, Megan worked in internal sales for a mutual fund company and held home office positions in a regional brokerage firm.
In all of her positions, key responsibilities have been communication, relationship development and relationship management. Every day she looks forward to using these skills to help SRP’s clients and their employees strive to achieve their retirement goals.
When she isn’t working, Megan can be found running, cooking, entertaining her friends and family, and cheering on her three kids in their sports and activities. Megan, her husband and three children reside in Libertyville, Illinois.
What is your favorite sport?
Running. It’s my zen time: I use it to organize my day, to meal plan, to day dream and to let off steam.
Favorite vacation?
We have a family place in Ontario that we love going to in the summer. It’s rustic ~ think family camp: no internet, no television, no phones. We spend the days on the water and in the woods, we spend the nights playing board games and lying on the dock trying to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights. We come home bug bitten, a little grimy, and totally recharged for the year ahead.
Special talent?
I make a mean chocolate chip banana bread. It’s been known to soothe the woes of a bad day at school, a tough loss in a soccer game, a rough swim practice, a Cross Country race that didn’t go as well as it could have, and the general blues involved with being a kid growing up.