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BIO: DIANE FRANKLIN
Diane Franklin, Ph.D., has worked with fast growing entrepreneurial companies and nonprofit organizations for many years. In her role as Principal of Impact Collaborative, she serves her clients as a consultant, executive coach and resource provider, offering services in the areas of organizational assessment and development, executive leadership development, strategic planning and implementation, feasibility studies, grant research and writing, and board development.
Recent projects include: strategic assessment/planning for a coalition of small business development organizations; evaluation of a summer camp program for low income children; evaluation of the HR department’s communications strategy in a major Boston hospital; organizational assessment followed by restructuring assistance for a multi-site legal services organization; evaluation of a multi-site, multi-year after school program followed by strategic planning to determine next steps; writing operational and strategic plans for two CDCs; facilitation of decision-making for a department within a CDC; organizational assessment followed by executive coaching for several organizations, infrastructure development and executive transition work for an organization focused on education and peace in the Middle East; feasibility studies related to the development of an arts and cultural center and a bicultural school; strategic planning work with a university department, a domestic violence agency, an organization focused on building the leadership skills of youth, a quasi-public planning agency and a multi-agency workforce development program; board development work with several community-based organizations and a large human service agency.
Recent interim work includes: working as interim executive director for a youth services agency and director of operations for a large community development corporation.
In the course of her career, Diane has worked with many individual clients, assisting with strategic analysis, strategic planning and implementation, market research and strategy, competitive intelligence, business plan writing, development of marketing collateral and web site content, work process development, program planning, business development, needs assessment and board development.
Before creating Impact Collaborative, Diane served as the executive director of the Cambridge Business Development Center. In that position, she worked with a large number of CEOs and business owners, helping them develop their businesses, providing them with programs and resources and coaching them both individually and in group settings.
Diane also created Venturing, an Emmy-winning 13-part public television series about entrepreneurship and wrote a 120-page resource guide to accompany the series. She developed and implemented the marketing and sales campaign for the series. This effort led to thousands of sales to business schools, entrepreneurial assistance organizations, and individual entrepreneurs. In creating Venturing, Diane interviewed more than 135 entrepreneurs. She also developed and ran 4 seminars for entrepreneurs, which focused on the basics of creating and running a successful company.
In addition to working as a consultant, Diane has started and run three businesses, written cases for Harvard Business school, taught in Northeastern's MBA program, created and implemented The Computer Museum's award-winning web site and served as a research associate on two national educational studies.
Diane was on the board of Youth Tech Entrepreneurs, was been a coach for Springboard 2000 and 2001 (a national project to help women CEOs obtain venture funding), and was a founding advisory board member for Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology. She has been a panelist for the MIT Enterprise Forum Startup dinners and has been interviewed for or written several articles on entrepreneurial topics or issues pertaining to nonprofit leadership development. She has served on 7 advisory boards or boards of directors.
Diane holds a BA degree, cum laude, from Radcliffe College, MA and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Chicago, and did postdoctoral work at The London School of Economics.