Center For Applied Research

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Lynn Oppenheim, President and Principal, is one of CFAR’s five founders. She has more than 25 years of experience in consulting across a range of issues and clients. She is known for the breadth of her experience, her pragmatism, and her respect for deeply held client values.

Jessica believes that organizational differences—when carefully and skillfully managed—can be a productive starting point for the vital conversations that high performing organizations must have on a regular basis. She is particularly interested in the dynamics of top teams facing challenging strategic and operational decisions, and in the close interaction across the boundaries of ownership, leadership, management, friendship or family that make running an owner and/or family-led business particularly complex.

Nancy is a founder of the Family Firm Institute, a global resource created to provide interdisciplinary intelligence, education, and professional development to educators and professionals serving the family business and family wealth fields. She is also an FFI Fellow and served on the organization’s original Board. She is currently President of FFI’s Mid-Atlantic chapter.

Jessica Geiben Lynn, Principal, is a member of CFAR’s Owner-led and Family Business group as well as a member of the firm's Academic Medicine group. She has extensive experience working with owner and family led businesses, hospitals and academic health centers, foundations and family foundations, and with boards of directors of both non-profit and owner/founder led organizations.

Originally trained as an architect, Tom brings a different perspective to the process of analyzing organizational problems and drafting solutions. He is an expert at seeing the links between the whole and the elements of an organization—ranging from the business fundamentals evidenced in the hard data—to the psychodynamics among individuals on the executive team faced with tough, far-reaching decisions.

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