About Rosann Wisman

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Rosann Wisman is the founder of WismanGroup, dedicated to executive coaching and consulting for leadership and growth. After many years of working in executive positions and serving in volunteer leadership roles on boards of non-profit organizations, she is committed to helping similar groups and their leaders as a coach, consultant, facilitator, advisor, and strategist.

Rosann’s commitment to coaching and consulting emerged from her first-hand understanding, as a CEO and executive director, of the pressures inherent in leading a mission-driven, non-profit organization. She appreciates the unique role a coach can provide as a sounding board and source of support to a leader working to balance the many demands of the position, including fundraising, financial and personnel management, program strategy, design and implementation, and board governance and engagement.

Her consulting work focuses on organizational development and structure, strategic planning, team building, and board governance. Her clients include local, national, and international organizations with a broad range of missions including health, social and fiscal policy, the environment, and the arts. 

Rosann's experience includes successfully leading nonprofit organizations with major national and international programs as well as start-ups. She directed Planned Parenthood affiliates around the country, including 15 years as President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC .

She was also the executive director of a non-profit dedicated to enhancing the quality of preclinical biomedical research and while at the Aspen Institute, she directed the Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health to build health systems and advance country ownership in developing countries. She served as the first executive director of the Accordia Global Health Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting infectious diseases by building the clinical and research capacity of academic medical institutions in Africa. She lived in Japan for two years where she was a Senior Advocacy Advisor for Population Action International.

Rosann is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership and is an PCC (Professional Certified Coach) with the International Coach Federation and is Leadership Circle Profile certifed. She is a licensed consultant with the Standards for Excellence Institute, a program dedicated to increasing excellence in non-profit leadership and management. Rosann holds an MS in Public Health.

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