Kathleen Wiseman

Kathy Wiseman is a family wealth/family business advisor whose work is based on Bowen family systems theory. Her 30-year professional experience is focused on being a strategic thought partner, educator to individuals, couples, family enterprises, family foundations, family offices, and families of wealth. She works with lawyers, wealth and philanthropic advisors, trust officers and financial professionals as they meet the challenges of a family’s participation in decision-making.

She has gained an appreciation for the challenges and solutions individuals and families encounter in their working relationships with family and a respect for people’s ability to adapt creatively. Her perspective is one of a “business anthropologist.”

Ms. Wiseman received an undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The George Washington University. She was appointed to the faculty of the Bowen Center in 1994.

She is founder and president of Working Systems Inc, a consulting firm located in Washington, DC and Santa Fe, New Mexico, co-founder of Navigating Systems, a rigorous educational forum dedicated to bringing family systems thinking to professionals who serve families. She is a past president of the Family Firm Institute and leads their Research and Education Foundation.