Dr Fran Finn

Biography

Background Fran is passionate about developing exceptional leaders. She is Director, Leadership Coaching; Course Coordinator for the Executive Graduate Certificate in Business (Leadership through Coaching & Mentoring); and established The Leadership Coaching Hub within QUTEx (Executive Education). She works extensively in leadership development, providing individual and group Leadership and Executive Coaching for senior executives, and facilitating executive development programs. Fran commenced in Human Resource Management in 1990 and has combined HR practice with delivering adult learning in academia for more than 20 years; she has been a past recipient of Innovation in Teaching awards, and was previously named University Mentor Coordinator of the Year. Since 1999, she has acquired specialist knowledge in personal and professional development through Executive Coaching and has consulted in successful large-scale leadership development programs across a wide range of industries. In 2000 Fran designed an Executive Coaching program that she trained a team of specialists to deliver to industry and in 2007 completed a PhD examining Executive Coaching as an Alternate Leadership Development Tool, for which she was awarded the Dean’s Commendation for Excellent Doctoral Thesis.

Research Interests

• Leadership development in the workplace
• Leadership and Executive coaching

Fran’s research is widely reported within the coaching field and she is called upon by media to comment. Her research focuses on leadership development in the workplace, with a particular interest in executive coaching. During her PhD she was successful in winning an addendum to the ARC Linkage Project between QUT, QHPPS, DIR, ADSM and Queens University. The outcomes of this research have been presented internationally.