Your Financial Flight Plan: Lessons from the Sky

Shannon Okinaka, Executive Vice President and former Chief Financial Officer of Hawaiian Airlines, will describe how the many challenges faced by airlines can help guide your personal financial planning. It will be a lively and informative conversation with Hawaii Business Editor and Executive Publisher Steve Petranik. Topics include creating the best flight plan for you and your family; making the right investments at the right time; creating alignment among your family and your advisors; adjusting to unexpected turbulence and much more.

Shannon Okinaka has more than two decades of financial and accounting leadership experience. From 2015 to September 2024, she served as Hawaiian Airlines’ Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. She previously served as Vice President and Controller of Hawaiian Airlines from 2011 to 2015. Prior to joining Hawaiian Airlines, Okinaka worked for Hawaiian Electric Co. and Coopers & Lybrand/PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

Colin Ryan

Speaker, Author, Educator

Colin Ryan is a nationally in-demand financial speaker, author, and award-winning storyteller. Colin helps people define and achieve their vision of financial success, through a positive message centered around one core idea: your ability to manage your money directly impacts your ability to have the life you want.

Financial success involves both knowing financial concepts—earning, borrowing, investing and saving—and knowing yourself—what you care about, how you grow, and what legacy you want to offer to others. This talk has plenty of inspiring stories, uplifting humor, and practical advice that will leave you feeling more confident in your financial skills and focused on your future.

Colin has been featured on CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, and his work was included in Reader’s Digest’s “The Best Stories in America.” Colin has given more than 1,000 speeches to nearly 1 million people, and his mission is to spark "lightbulb moments" around our finances by focusing on the human side of money.