Professional Expertise

Frank is an executive coach and consultant who brings years of practical leadership, business, and academic experience to his approach with clients. As an executive coach, Frank specializes in supporting leaders to develop their leadership and management skills. He works with individuals, teams, and organizations to create and utilize systems that support learning and development. He believes that personal and professional development is optimally achieved through understanding mindsets and behaviors in actual personal and professional contexts.

Frank provides insight and support to his clients in their quest for development. His supportive and creative style, combined with his willingness to be direct with his clients, encourages them to engage their development opportunities with optimism in a supportive context.

In addition to his coaching and leadership development experiences, Frank has varied and successful industry experiences and he has started three companies. Frank has two degrees in adult learning and has conducted research on how adults can positively change their mindsets and behaviors. He has authored several articles, contributed chapters to books, been an invited researcher and presenter for national invitational conferences on adult learning, and has spoken widely on the subjects of leadership and executive coaching.

Recent Coaching Assignments

• Managing Director of a European bank to utilize his strengths and those of his key people to lead the organization through a series of takeovers and buy-outs
• CEO, Executive Team, and Board of a professional services firm to redefine and reframe its strategy and identify key new products and services to maintain its position as the premier player in its market
• Director of Moving Media for a large global sports company to reorganize his department and develop his personal brand to enable the unit to significantly increase its contribution to the organization’s market competitiveness
• SVP of an international conglomerate to increase his interpersonal effectiveness and build his team to reach and exceed their business goals
• Director of a Dutch investment bank as she developed a team to enter new markets and sectors
• CEO of a venture-funded software company to increase the collaborative efforts of the senior executives as he led the company from debt restructuring to taking a new product to market
• EVP of a major Midwestern hospital to develop and deliver a coaching and leadership development initiative for her entire executive team
• Strategy consultants for a top-five management consultancy as they move through their career paths to partnership
• Chief Medical Officer of a major teaching hospital as he negotiated contracts with physician groups and developed collaborative interactions with key physician group stakeholders
• Ten high potential healthcare leaders participating in a statewide year-long leadership college positioning them to be the next generation of leaders in healthcare for their state

Education and Professional Affiliations

• Ed.D., Adult Learning & Higher Education Management, Arizona State University
• M.A., Adult Education, Arizona State University
• M.A., Religious Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary
• B.A., Social Science & Religious Studies, Bethany College