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For 30 years, Fran has been focused on helping adults learn and grow as team members and leaders. Beginning as a personal quest to understand and help the teams, classes and organizations she participated in, Fran has diligently persisted to find ways to help people understand one another, build strong bonds and get things done with humor, grace and where possible, fun. For more than 20 years, Fran has been at the forefront of the development and application of emotional intelligence in the workplace. She believes in human potential to grow and change, that leader behavior matters, and in the power of groups and teams to lead the way toward large systems or social change. For Fran, relationships are at the core for supporting the emergence of change.
This has led Fran to learn and practice the skill, and art, of executive coaching. She has earned the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC) from the International Coaching Federation, and the trust of numerous CEOs who appreciate her counsel as it relates to power, systems, values, teams and relationships. She brings a diversity, equity and inclusion lens to her work with leaders and systems, and is a lifelong learner as it relates to race, social identities and spiritual consciousness.
With Fran you get a strong partner in understanding and navigating the subjective aspects of organizational life: Values, emotions, relationships, power, motivation, aspiration, ambition, and wealth of experiences in all kinds of situations from Fortune 500 C-suite, to community food banks and cooperatives, to medical education, to pharmaceutical and bio-tech leadership, to school boards, to government and military leadership.
Fran’s academic training includes a PhD in Psychoeducational Process from the Graduate School of Education and a M.Ed. in Psychosocial Interactions in Sport from Temple University. Before that Fran earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.
Equally important, Fran’s personal and professional development began at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, then the Gestalt International Study Center on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. These esteemed centers with the traditions, concepts and loving faculty within them, supported her growth as a person, facilitator and teacher. Ubuntu.
Hobbies: I am a happy soccer mom who after 10 glorious years of finding fields, watching games and enjoying nature, I am figuring out what to do with my new found time. These days, I love driving in my manual drive convertible, walking in my neighborhood, taking pictures of other peoples’ plants and trees, and cooking dinner.
Most Meaningful Project: A multi-year leadership and country capacity building initiative with the United Nations in Cambodia and South Africa in the early 2000’s. It was inspiring to see how relationships, hope and the drive to repair and envision a better future emerged from disconnection, feelings of lack of agency in the face of the HIV-AIDS pandemic. In the end, we helped teach skills, foster relationships and most powerfully support the emergence of a leadership community from across sectors of society. They went on to lead many inspiring people-centered change initiatives. I could have retired then…except I learned so much that I absolutely wanted to continue on my own personal and professional growth journey.
Biggest Inspiration: The spark within everyone to grow. There truly is a teleos within each of us if we have the conditions and courage to ask the questions, and sufficient support around it. The change may not be “big”. It could be a reframe, an acceptance, an articulated want that ignites something. It is inspiring then to watch people go after it. Take that and have a shared sense of teleos in a team or organization or country, and it is breathtaking what can happen.
