Helen Baker

Helen Baker is a qualified, practising and licensed Financial Adviser and founder of On Your Own Two Feet, an Australia-wide service dedicated to empowering women gain and retain their financial freedom. Helen has earned two Masters degrees, being a Master of Financial Planning and also a Master of Management (Innovation and Change), as well as a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree.

Helen’s passion for educating and helping out clients was recognised at the 2022 Godfrey Pembroke Group National Conference, with Helen jointly taking out the award for Financial Adviser of the Year. Helen has been a finalist for Australia’s Financial Adviser/Planner of the Year and a two-time finalist for Women’s Community Program of the Year. She is also the recipient of the Alison Stewart Award for Community Contribution, ‘for her outstanding work across community and charity, and her endeavours to improve financial literacy for those who need it most’.

Her book On Your Own Two Feet: Steady Steps to Women’s Financial Independence was first published in 2014. Her second book, On Your Own Two Feet, Divorce: Your Survive and Thrive Financial Guide, published in 2018, was named by the highly respected Money magazine’s their Book of the Month in December 2018.