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Fran Scarlett

Strategy Coach
Media Transformation Challenge

Fran Scarlett is a business strategist, consultant and coach who is passionate about building sustainable entrepreneurial organizations. Scarlett has worked with companies of all sizes and has started and operated two publications targeted to women and other underrepresented audiences. She also has worked with entrepreneurial and established companies across multiple industries.

Prior to her consultancy, Scarlett served as chief knowledge officer at the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), where she oversaw the network’s capacity-building programs in revenue generation, business strategy, leadership development and organizational equity.

Scarlett is currently a coach in the Media Transformation Challenge, a performance-driven change program in its 19th year, housed at Poynter Institute. She is a member of the faculty for The Local News Accelerator and MILA programs at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and a regular workshop presenter at the JSK Fellowship at Stanford University. She also coached in the Knight-Lenfest Table Stakes program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Prior to the Media Transformation Challenge, Scarlett was an independent consultant with Blue Engine Collaborative.

As part of her work at Blue Engine, she coached in the Meta Accelerators, the Google News Initiative Ad & Sponsorship and Reader Revenue Labs, the Racial Equity in Journalism Audience Growth program and the Center for Public Broadcasting Digital Transformation Program.

Scarlett served on the board of the NC Local News Workshop. She also served as an advisor for GNI Global Sustainability Study. Scarlett is a presenter at industry conferences and workshops across the globe.

Scarlett has a B.S. in Mass Communications from Boston University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is an avid gardener, has traveled to 50 countries and all seven continents.

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