Jim Francek "Red Hawk"

Career Summary
Master facilitator and consultant on leadership development & training, executive coaching, change management, team development, group facilitation, and organizational culture interventions with medium and large multinational corporations. Managed the Nonprofit Sector efforts for CCL.

Professional Qualifications/Achievements

Leadership Development and Executive Coaching

Manager of the Nonprofit Sector, CCL
Managed the contract conversion, design and delivery of the leadership develpoment efforts for a wide range of nonprofit organizations enterprisewide; maintained the client relationships with these organizations; assisted CCL’s development staff in attracting funds for this work.

Leadership Development
Trained and facilitated Leadership Development Program, 21st Century Leader Selection, Leading High Performance Teams with middle and executive-level managers.

Custom Training Program & Curriculum Development
Assessed the developmental needs of individual executives, senior managers, and groups through an interview process and/or instrumentation to determine appropriate educational and developmental design that integrates the organization’s identified leadership competencies, business objectives and expected outcomes. Designed and delivered developmental experiences that enhanced the organizational culture, climate for change, and methods of conflict resolution. Prepared proposals scooping large-scale custom interventions. Delivered custom training and maintained appropriate follow-up programs.

Executive Coaching
Provided one-on-one coaching to middle, senior, and executive-level managers utilizing self, organizational and psychological assessment instruments and surveys. Assisted leaders/managers with their individual design for their personal & career development plans.

Team Development

Consultant to Safety Sensitive Workplaces
Created Safenet™ … a work team approach focused on the reduction of unsafe behavior in high risk plant situations. (Esso Chemical, Exxon Chemical) Safenet™ resulted in an 80% reduction of the reported safety issues at sites where implemented. Facilitated leadership and team development for the senior security team for the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory.

Developer of Labor-Management Teams
Designed, developed and negotiated labor-management policy, systems and roles for intervention with impaired employees. This resulted in the establishment of joint labor-management recovery teams between the UAW and Ford, and Kelsey Hayes at all their work sites.

Executive Team Building
Designed and facilitated executive team development sessions for petro-chemical, defense, construction, financial, pharmaceutical and health care industries. Significantly increased their alignment around strategy, agility, connectiveness, communication, focused activity, and performance as a group. (Exxon Chemical, Comerica Bank, United Defense, International Paper-Forest Division, National Wildlife Federation)

Organizational Change

Creator and Developer of Breakthrough Resilience Training
Designed and delivered Navigating ChangeTM and Leading ChangeTM seminars for the employees and leaders of organizations going through dramatic organizational change. This design focused on the appropriate handling of complex human factor and organizational issues that surface during change. (Amoco, Mobil Oil, British Petroleum Exploration, Chicago Bank, J.C.Penny, Petro-Canada, Exxon)

Consultant to Senior Operational Teams
Provided consultation and development of senior change management teams for Exxon USA, and Exxon Chemical during the sale of the refinery and for the General Motors Elyria plant at the time of its closure. These efforts extended for over a year each. Substantial risk of violence was contained in both situations. Re-deployed employees were successfully merged into new work cultures.

Management
Coordinated professional multi-disciplinary teams in the delivery of group interventions for companies going through critical organizational change throughout North & South America, and Europe.

Employee Assistance

Developer of Large Systems
Implemented a systemic approach to employees/dependents experiencing job or health problems related to emotional or family distress, alcohol or drug misuse for Exxon, Ford, and the Kelsey Hayes Company. Implemented training efforts on the management of complex medical/behavioral issues for medical, supervisor, union and management personnel. Assessed risk of organizational sites for violence, and counseled local leadership in the creation of work cultures that avoid high risk behaviors.

Evaluator of Cost Benefits
Co-designed & conducted cost benefit studies with the finance staff of Ford to determine program outcomes. Studies documented significant reduction of costs related absenteeism, health care, workers compensation and grievance process in all studies. Documented a $6/1 ratio of return for comprehesive EAP efforts. These studies resulted in the funding of a multi-million dollar effort to address these issues.

Direct Supervisor
Provided functional supervision for all EAP professional staff; provided consultation and stewardship of the employee assistance efforts in worldwide affiliates of Kelsey Hayes, Ford and Exxon.

Public Speaking

Delivered a wide variety of public speaking engagements for diverse audiences. Topics covered: personal growth, group synergy, creating connectedness with others, and resiliency in times of change.


Organizational Experience

Center for Creative Leadership 1996 - Present
Senior Design Faculty, Custom Solutions Colorado Springs, CO
Program Manager, 21st Century Leader Selection

Jim Francek & Associates, Inc. 1989 1996
President & CEO Westport, CT

King Chapman Broussard & Gallagher 1993 - 1994
Manager Organizational Re-deployment Practice New York, NY

Watershed Corporate Health Services 1986 1989
Chairman and CEO Norwalk, CT

Exxon Corporation 1981 1986
Manager, Employee Health Advisory Program New York, NY

Ford Motor Company 1976 1981
Manager, Employee Health Services Counseling Dearborn, MI

Kelsey Hayes Company 1973 1976
Director of Center for Counseling & Guidance Romulus, MI

Defeat Opiate Addiction, Inc. 1971 1973
Director of Planning & Research Detroit, MI

Education

Post Graduate Studies in Psychology
University of Santa Monica, CA, 1991 - 92

Masters in Social Work: Emphasis on group dynamics and labor/management relations
University of Michigan, 1974 – 76 (Placement with the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations)

Post Graduate Studies: Theology, Humanities, and Counseling
St. John’s Seminary, Plymouth, MI, 1963 - 67

BA in Philosophy
Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit, MI, 1959 - 63


Professional Associations and Leadership Activities

Co-editor and contributing writer for The Human Resources Management Handbook
Committee member for the Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine in the production of a two year study and report entitled: Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems
National spokesperson for the employee assistance field, as past President of ALMACA (now EAPA: Employee Assistance Professional Association)
Past Chairperson, Occupational Social Work Task Force, NASW
Presenter at national and international conferences on workplace interventions, safety, employee assistance and managing change
Columnist for Employee Assistance Magazine
Adjunct faculty member at Wayne State University, and Eastern Michigan University

Contact information:
The Center for Creative Leadership
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Work: 719.329.7825
Home: 719.686.9792
Email: francekj@leaders.ccl.org

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