Developing the most competent families and the professionals that serve them is the overarching goal of Ms. Wiseman’s professional life.
Her leadership at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, The Family Firm Institute, Collaboration for Families Flourishing, and George Washington University allowed her to develop new strategies for assisting families with the challenges they face working together to make decisions for their shared assets – family offices, family businesses, family foundations, trusts, and wealth. She assists family members and their professional(s) to make the next right decision for the assets and the relationships. The foundation of her work is Bowen family systems theory and Zengar Neurofeedback.
Based on the latest studies of the human brain and family relationship systems, Wiseman’s skill-full guidance promotes effective decision making when the stakes are high and emotions cloud possible options.
Wiseman is a faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, formerly the Georgetown University Family Center. She is the founder and president of Working Systems, Inc., and a founding member and past president of the Family Firm Institute. Wiseman is a cofounder of Navigating Systems, a course for lawyers, accountants, trust officers, and family office executives who want to learn more about family and how families predictably function. Wiseman was in partnership with Charles Collier of Harvard University teaching a course titled “Working with Families of Wealth.”
Wiseman is the co-editor of several books, including
Understanding Organizations
and
The Emotional side of Organizations
, both of which are available at the Bowen Center in Washington, DC.
Wiseman received her undergraduate degree in sociology/anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from George Washington University. In the summer of 2015, she attended Burning Man for the first time with two of her children, their spouses and a nephew. She is now considered a Burner.