Fran Carr is a visionary leader who brings about change in organizations through building relationships, asking questions, and driving toward evidence-based results and decision making. She clarifies business and technology problems and brings innovative solutions to the fore using her background as a journalist, non-profit leader, and designer.Fran deploys wisdom, courage, generosity of spirit, diplomacy, and leadership through example. Her colleagues say she’s the secret ingredient that creates superbly engaged and genuinely supportive team culture. Members of groups she is in feel appreciated and work together to reach their goals. Her strengths include aligning around mission and vision and an uncanny ability to create and maintain networks of people.Fran leads cross-functional efforts to analyze and solve complex problems and challenge existing paradigms to ensure time is spent on the most important issues. Fran has applied her skills in a variety of industries: journalism, non-profit organizations, state government, higher education, technology, distribution, manufacturing, human rights. Fran leads through common vision, effective communication, and efficient planning.Fran is committed to personal and systemic healing. She is sensitive to the generational trauma of racism, sexism, homophobia, colonization and genocide on constituent populations; and to the nuance of working with historically marginalized groups. She is gifted at creating spaces conducive to belonging, community and productivity.Competencies include: * Development of strategic vision, mission and goals * Research and recommendations on program adoption to meet strategic needs with appropriate administration and management structures * Leadership and collaboration with multiple stakeholder organizations to maximize results for constituent audiences/communities * Assume ownership of engagements including executive decision making to design project approach, developing findings and recommendation * Ongoing project leadership to examine and assess program goals, challenges and targets * Determine and drive toward mission, vision, values, goals and objectives with creative thinking * Project management oversight from project conception and initiation through project close * Agile project management and evangelismMs/She/Her/HersMeyers-Briggs: INFJDiSC: DCGallup Strengths Finder: Input, Connectedness, Intellection, Discipline, Learner