Kathleen K. Wiseman, MBA

Kathleen Wiseman is a business advisor whose work is based on Bowen family systems theory. Her 30-year professional experience is focused on being a strategic thought partner to family enterprises, family foundations, family offices, and families of wealth.  Her prior experience includes consulting to government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and multi-site manufacturing facilities. She works with lawyers, wealth advisors, trust officers and financial professionals as they plan for the next generation’s role in decision-making with regard to their family assets.

Along the way, she has gained an appreciation for the challenges 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 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.

Contact information: kwiseman@thebowencenter.org