Dr Fran Finn
Faculty of Business & Law,
Graduate School of Business
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
Personal details
Positions
- Sessional Academic
Faculty of Business & Law,
Graduate School of Business
Research field
Business and Management
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Business (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Certifications
- SDA Bocconi - The International Schools of Business Management, International Teachers Programme
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- The Leadership Circle Asia-Pacific - Leadership Circle Proile; Leadership Culture Survey
- Saville Consulting - Saville Consulting Aptitude Series
- Team Management Systmes - Linking Skills Profiles Accreditation
- ACER - QMb Accreditation; MBTI Accrediation
- MBTI Accreditation
Associations
Association for Coaching (Qld Leadership Team)
Teaching
Teaching Interests
- Leadership and Executive coaching
- Leadership development
- Personal and professional development
- Emotional intelligence
- Self awareness
- Organisational behaviour
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Fran, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).