Fran Ferguson

Background

About Fran Ferguson

Since 2016, Ms. Ferguson has served as a senior executive coach for Native American nations experiencing rapid growth and strategic reorganizations. Her clients include executives leading commercial, retail, hospitality, gaming, and manufacturing enterprises; health services; integrated services including strategic development, accounting and finance, human resources, legal and compliance, and technology; as well as tribal operations and diversified investment entities. As an in-house executive for professional services firms, Ms. Ferguson blends analytical strength with creativity to advance the entire organization's ability to compete. She has designed and managed complex business development programs, addressed client relations issues, and structured start-up or turnaround solutions for sales and market development operations at: a leading international accounting firm; one of the nation's top-ranked corporate law firms; a global consultancy in productivity improvement; the largest full-service real estate firm in the South and Southwest. In these roles, or as a trusted advisor, she also has: counseled troubled executives on career, client, business, and partnership concerns; mentored entrepreneurs across a broad range of industries; shaped business plans for raising capital or for market share expansion; educated owners on alternative financing structures and how to build investment value; influenced direction and development of game-changing international initiatives; launched major domestic and international branding and media campaigns. Ms. Ferguson has been the principal owner or partner in privately-held businesses involved in: coaching executives determined to improve personal, professional, or financial performance; developing high-volume corporate customers for an introductory line of OEM electronics; creating national branding campaigns and strategic communications; selecting, managing, structuring and brokering real estate-related investments. Experienced in business and divisional management. Provides a progressive range of solutions through strategic and business planning; refining plans for raising capital; addressing start-up and turnaround challenges; structuring and leading integrated sales and market development operations; managing change in environments unaccustomed to meeting measurable objectives; designing culturally-consistent approaches to improve return on time, dollars, people, and systems.