Kathy Wiseman
Washington, DC

Kathy Wiseman assists people to live, work and govern their family business, family foundation and family office. Her expertise is in merging two tracks: business skills and family systems.

She is a faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family . She is adjunct faculty at the George Washington University School of Business where she is heading the Institute for Succession. She served as a Dean of the Family Office Exchange Learning Academy, Chicago, Illinois and the president of the Family Firm Institute Education and Research foundation

As founder of Working Systems, Wiseman has provided consulting to 375 family organizations and individuals for over 25 years. Additional professional partnerships have given her other platforms to educate and coach executives, families, bankers, family office professionals and investment advisors. Wiseman's signature is her ability to develop learning experiences that motivate and connect people at all stages of business sophistication.

Her work has caught the eye of corporate business and government. In those settings she has tackled deep organizational muddles with creative leadership training, use of film for capturing people's passion and anxiety about their work over time, and novel curriculum designs for individuals/ families preparing for the future as well as massive federal bureaucracies.

Wiseman holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from George Washington University. She is a board member of the Woman’s Growth Capital Fund, Canada Alamosa Institute and the Jewish Council for the Aging. She speaks and writes for a national audience. Kathy has also co-authored two books, Understanding Organizations and The Emotional Side of Organizations.

Jan Black
Salem, Oregon

Jan Black clarifies people in a way that satisfies their need to know their core contribution and how to use it to enjoy greater success and meaning. She gets to this information through a conversational process she created, called Your Defining Edge. Once defined, clients are more able to make sense of themselves and sort their choices. Her clients are professionals wanting to reinvent their work or take it to the next level of distinction and families wanting to define their mission and values in ways that honor the legacy, make room for the individual strengths and dreams of the heirs, and inform their enterprise and philanthropic choices. Jan’s services include client branding based on their Defining Edge and preferred audience.

Jan is responsible for the history-making Everywoman’s Money Conferences, a women’s financial education project she co-created that drew an average of 1,500 women per event.

Jan resides in Oregon and serves clients through her company Pinpoint Clarity, www.pinpoint-clarity.com.

Ann Bunting, Ph.D.
Burlington, Vermont

Ann Bunting is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Burlington, Vermont. In 1997, she founded The Vermont Center for Family Studies, a non-profit organization. This was an outgrowth of prior activities begun in l989 when she established a monthly clinical conference series in Bowen theory for mental health professionals and other interested parties in the state of Vermont and surrounding regions.

Bunting's specialty is working with families who wish to think about the future. This includes issues of wealth transfer, philanthropy, family and business succession, and engaging the coming generations in family enterprises, relationships and activities. This work can include preparing for and facilitating family meetings and/or working with a single motivated family member.

Ann received her Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland in 1977 and an Ed.M. in Guidance--Counseling Psychology--from Harvard University in 1970. She completed the three year post-graduate program in Bowen Family Systems Theory and Psychotherapy in 1982 at the Georgetown University Family Center and has been active in the programs there throughout her professional life. It is now called the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family.

Frank Gregorsky
Vienna, Virginia

Former Capitol Hill researcher/editor Frank Gregorsky is a lifelong sound enthusiast. He began family recordings at the age of eight. First subject: His sister Debbie, then not quite two. Yes, the tape survives (and so did the sister).

In 2002, Frank added Family Audio History to his manuscript and text-editing consultancy. "I heard so many woulda-coulda-shoulda tales from people my age. They wanted the family history to be recorded, but could not bring themselves to compose questions, or sit down and listen to the answers. Therefore no recordings were made -- and now it's too late.”

During the mid-‘90s, Frank profiled 29 women business-owners for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He refers to this as "his most innovative and least influential project" -- see www.ExactingEditor.com/WomenBizOpener.html

Today, Frank's family and business chronicles end up on audiodiscs that are "indexed and tracked," just like a "greatest hits" musical collection, except these are 100% voice -- the voices of parents, siblings, distant relatives and close associates. Age 51 as of March 2006, he is a founding member of the Cooperative Legacy group.

Dr. Dan Papero, LCSW
Washington, DC

Invited to join the faculty of the Georgetown Family Center in 1982 by its founder Dr. Murray Bowen, Dr. Papero consults with family businesses, Federal agencies, school systems and corporations. He writes and speaks on family firms, family systems leadership and neuroscience. He serves on the editorial board of Family Systems and of Family Business Client. Dr. Papero addresses the emotional process and functioning leaders, corporations and non-profit organizations.