Carol Wittmeyer

Dr. Carol Wittmeyer brings a wealth of experience in family business and serves as an advocate for entrepreneurial families. She is Professor Emerita at St. Bonaventure University, where she founded the Family Business Class and Club, and her family funds the yearly regional high school Hellbender Business Plan Competition.

As Founding Director of the Family Business Program at St. John Fisher University, she shaped the next generation of business leaders through innovative programming and education. She also served as Interim Dean of the School of Business, leading new program development and guiding the school through the COVID period. Carol was a faculty member at Loyola University Chicago’s Family Business Center for over a decade.

A respected voice in the field, Carol has published on family business management and served as an educational consultant to multigenerational family firms and as past president of the George and Robin Raymond Family Business Institute, during which time she was also a family business fellow at Babson College.

Carol holds accounting degrees from St. Bonaventure University and a doctorate in administration from the University of Rochester. She has executive education certificates from Harvard University, the Wharton School, and the Beijing Institute of Technology.

Beyond her academic work, Carol is developing an innovative app to help combat loneliness among the elderly. She serves on the boards of the Western NY Center for Family Systems and Children’s Institute, and supports the International Esperanza Project in Guatemala.