Francine Parham is an accomplished global business professional and practitioner. Her area of expertise is in leadership development and career advancement for women and women of color in the workplace.
She is the Founder and CEO of FrancineParham & Co., which works with organizations to provide solutions in advancing their female talent and leadership. Her company achieves this work through focus in the areas of assessment, customized programmatic solutions and consulting services. She is also the Founder of the Career Advancement Project, focusing on mobility solutions using scientific methodology, tools and technology.
Along with partnering with organizations, she and her team also focus directly on helping women and women of color with their professional development. Her company offers the Sharpen Your Skills Professional® programs.
Francine is a published author of, “Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work (Berrett-Koehler Publishers/ Penguin Random House, August, 2022). She speaks publicly; discusses the often-implicit skills she knows are important for career advancement and; the role that leadership within organizations are accountable for in helping their women and women of color talent navigate successfully. She has been cited in various published books and articles as a thought-leader.
She is a member of The Harvard Business Review Advisory Council research group; a member of ForbesBLK; a SheSource expert and; a former senior fellow at the Conference Board.
Her career spans over two decades having worked in multiple industries. Her last assignment was a global executive and Vice President, for Johnson and Johnson. She worked for the General Electric Company in the capacity of a Vice President prior to JNJ. She has worked for General Mills in various roles. She holds two Master’s degrees, one from the University of Illinois (M.A.) and another from Columbia University (M.S.).