Katharine Gratwick Baker

Katharine Gratwick Baker, MA, PhD, LICSW, is an experienced consultant who has worked with family enterprises and closely held firms, providing executive and leadership coaching, strategic planning and organizational learning services, and time management seminars. Katharine currently has a solo consultation practice based in western Massachusetts. She was senior consultant for the Metropolitan Group/Relative Solutions in New York from 1998 to 2006.

Katharine has contributed chapters to a number of books and has authored and coauthored articles on a wide variety of topics, including "Family Business in the New Russia" for Families in Business Magazine, "Leadership, Legacy and Emotional Process in Family Business" in Family Business Review, and "Giving Harmoniously as a Family" in More Than Money Journal. She is featured as the subject of a Harvard Business School case study entitled "Carol Brewer's Investments."

Katharine has received many years of postdoctoral training at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the Family Firm Institute for ten years and currently serves on a number of boards.