Associates
about Martha Freymann Miser, Ph.D.
Martha has a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. Martha Miser is a consultant, educator and coach with over 30 years of experience in leading organizational change in the US and Europe. In addition to holding leadership positions in both public and private sector organizations, Martha has extensive experience as a practitioner in organization and leadership development, team coaching, and education design and delivery.
In her work, Martha’s focus is on supporting leaders and teams to realize meaningful, sustainable change in the midst of increasing complexity and turbulence within and outside of their organizations. As an educator and coach, Martha sees deep change as a continual learning process that requires a shift in values, beliefs or behavior. As a leadership and change practitioner, she understands that change must be approached systemically and ensure involvement at all levels of the organization. Martha uses a variety of methods to enable organizations to envision a desired future, identify the gaps with the current reality, and mobilize people to take action and address problems successfully to realize their purposes. Her writing and scholarly studies bring a continual stream of new learning and resources into her practice.
Martha began her career in the field of City Management, after completing her MA in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She worked for the City of Hartford from 1977 to 1989 in a variety of capacities, including Director of Operations Improvement, Chief of Management Services for the Public Works Department, and Assistant City Manager for Administrative Services.
Following this, Martha joined Aetna Financial Services (AFS), in Hartford, Connecticut, which was later acquired by ING Group, a Dutch-based multinational financial services business. During her tenure with Aetna/ING, Martha held a variety of leadership education and internal consulting positions, including Head of Organization Effectiveness and Leadership Development for the US businesses. In this capacity, she played a key role in the merger of AFS with ING by providing coaching and guidance to ING’s senior leaders on creating an integrated culture to support the newly combined organization.
During her last four years with ING, Martha had the opportunity to work and live in the Netherlands as an expatriate with ING Group. During this assignment, she created and led a global Leadership and Change initiative, with the objective of building a high performance culture across ING. During this period, Martha was also responsible for the delivery of a number of cross-business and cross-cultural executive education programs.
Aduro Consulting is named for the Latin word meaning to “light” or “kindle.” This is a metaphor for effective leadership, which illuminates the most difficult challenges, resulting in insight, learning, and durable change.
Martha’s recent dissertation is entitled “The Myth of Endless Accumulation: A Feminist Inquiry Into Globalization, Growth, and Social Change.”
about Liliana Busconi, Ph.D.
Liliana Busconi, Ph.D. is a native of Argentina. She earned her degree in Biochemistry from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina. She moved to Boston in 1990 with her family to do her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School.
After six years in Boston, she returned to her home country. She experienced firsthand how difficult is to move from one country to other and discovered that it was just as hard to adjust to life in the United States as it was to go back to her home country after being away for several years.
Liliana and her family returned to Brookline in 2001 and, as a consequence of her own experience, she became very interested in the challenges of adapting to a new society and returning to one’s native country. This interest led her to take a cross-cultural training workshop to train her in the processes of intercultural transitions and adaptation.
In 2008 she decided to create a program for international families with children in the Brookline Public School system. She saw this as an opportunity to help new families who were now in the position she was once in, as well as a way to give back to the community that had helped her adjust to Brookline many years ago— including teachers, ELL teachers, and counselors.
After meeting in 2009, Liliana Busconi and Andrew Miser decided that their different backgrounds yet similar interests and experiences could complement each other in reaching out to the international community. Together they have developed a cross-cultural program for international newcomers moving to the United States, called Adjusting to Life in a New Country. They piloted this program in Brookline, Massachusetts. Please visit the website, Adjusting to Life in Brookline, which describes the work Andy and Liliana did with international newcomers in Brookline, Massachusetts. This program was recognized as one of five successful community support programs for international families at Families and Global Transition Conference in May 2011.
After working for many years in research at Boston University School of Medicine, Liliana now enjoys teaching at Emmanuel College.
about Susan Rosano, M.A.
Susan E, Rosano holds a Masters Degree from Wesleyan University in Liberal Studies, is a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator, Master Teaching Artist with the CT Commission on Culture and a Clinical Pastoral Counselor. Ms. Rosano is a winner of the Guilford Arts Center “Year of the Child” Award for her work initiating arts programs and consultancy services for organizations such as The Kennedy Center, Masonicare Hospice, Yale Children’s Hospital and many other venues.
She has presented workshops at conferences throughout New England to parents, special education professionals, teachers and health care workers on using the arts for children with special needs. Working with Andy Miser, Ms. Rosano has facilitated many “Transforming Common Family Dilemma” workshops in the northeast. She is the author of “Living the Gift: A Family Support Program,” a book about life with Chris, her son with special needs, his family and how they transformed their common dilemmas.
Visit Susan’s website at New England Expressive Arts.
about Oshikan Sjodin-Bunse
Oshikan knows personally the roles that accompany a global lifestyle. She is a Lovepat as she left California, married a German National and moved to his country. She has been an Expat Diplomatic Accompanying Spouse in Japan and has raised three Adult Third Culture Kids. She is currently a Repat as she and her husband temporarily live in New York. She will once again become an Expat/Repat when they return to Berlin to be closer to their children and newborn grandchild in the near future while keeping strong connections to people and nature in California.
As a former Shiatsu Therapist and Teacher, her care for her fellow human beings has developed into schooling and licensing as a Heilpraktikerin fuer Psychotherapie (Germany)/ Healing Practitioner for Psychotherapy. This gives her insight into the pathologies that may inflict us. She is also a dedicated student at the other end of the spectrum, in the Applied Science of Positive Psychology which emphasizes what is good and strong about us. She is a graduate of Martin Seligman’s Authentic Happiness program. Through the Australian based International Coach Academy she is certified as a professional coach. Her studies with Andrew Miser in Relationship Coaching help couples create growth-oriented connection. She attends meetings of the International Coach Federation in Berlin and New York and is a lifelong learner for her niche in expat coaching.
Oshikan is an Entrepreneur as a Professional Relationship and Transition Coach and Facilitator. She has not always found this constant international transitioning to be an easy process and has made it one of her life goals to gather best practices that can help individuals, couples and families flourish, wherever they may be living. She has written papers and created programs for clients, individually and with colleagues that help Global Citizens live their best life possible, no matter which kind of expatriate they may be.
