Kathryn Bennett is a Senior Legal and Estate Planning Consultant with Desjardins Insurance. Kit uses her expertise as a tax and estate planning lawyer when working with advisors to provide high net worth individuals and business owners with sophisticated insurance-based solutions in the areas of wealth protection, business continuation and succession, and advanced insurance planning. She has a special interest in the strategic use of insurance products for farm estate planning, charitable giving, planning for persons with a disability and cross-border planning.

Kit is an accomplished presenter and frequent author on topics such as personal and corporate estate planning and charitable gift planning using life insurance, segregated funds, and annuities, beneficiary designation planning, using insurance and annuities in Wills and trusts, and retirement planning.

Her professional memberships include the Law Society of Ontario, the Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners (STEP), Advocis, the Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting (CALU), the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, and the Canadian Association of Gift Planners (CAGP).

Kit dislikes heights, lobster, waiting in lines, and any sentence that contains the word “impact” used as a verb.