Lisa Gresham, CDFA

LISA GRESHAM, CDFA®

Lisa Gresham is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and founder of Equitable Divorce Solutions, LLC. Lisa has over 35 years of financial and investment experience. Since 2003, she has focused her practice solely on complex financial issues specific to divorce. Blending professional knowledge with personal experience, she works with her clients to develop options and design a settlement that will help them to disentangle and move toward financial independence and stability, after divorce. As a financial professional, Lisa’s services include lifestyle and needs analysis, asset valuation, pension analysis and valuation, cash flow analysis and projected net worth and settlement negotiation and evaluation.  She focuses on budgeting, evaluating tax and cash flow implications with possible settlement scenarios and short- and long-term projections in order to help her clients meet their financial needs.

In her mediation practice and when acting as a financial neutral in a Collaborative Divorce, Lisa draws on her extensive interpersonal communication training and skills to help her clients identify their interests, moving away from positions, to find workable options for the family as a whole.

Lisa is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts, Collaborative Professionals of Fairfield County, Divorce Solutions of Connecticut, Connecticut Collaborative Divorce Group, Family Law Section of the American Bar Association and Connecticut Council for Non-Adversarial Divorce, where she served as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for many years.

In addition to her practice, Lisa is one of the founding partners of the CT Family Mediation Training Group, an organization providing divorce mediation training for attorneys, financial and mental health professionals.  She is also a trainer for the CCND sponsored Basic Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce training and teaches public educational seminars on the financial aspects of divorce.

In 2016 and 2018, Lisa was presented with CCND’s Distinguished Service Award, in recognition of her dedication and commitment to the organization and the promotion of non-adversarial divorce.

Lisa also teaches public educational seminars on the financial aspects of divorce.