Marv Franz is a management consultant who focuses his energy on helping leaders and organizations navigate through change.  He is skilled in helping leaders clarify the challenges they face, facilitating strategy development processes, and enabling leaders and teams to simply make things happen.  Marv enjoys the challenge of helping his clients sort through complex organizational issues and then getting leaders to move in a unified direction.  Underlying this is a genuine interest and care for the people and the organizations with whom he works.

To serve his clients, Marv draws upon a unique combination of educational and past work experience.  He holds an MBA from the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University specializing in Strategy, and holds university undergraduate degrees in Biology and Education as well as graduate degrees in Theology.   Marv has spent over a decade as a leadership and team developer, making change happen in both informal and formal university and NGO contexts. Working primarily within university student services departments in Ontario and British Columbia, he developed and managed staff teams, offered leadership on university management teams as well as created leadership curriculum, training programs and international service-learning teams in partnership with African and Latin American NGO’s.  Getting results in these often slow-moving institutions, has taught Marv both patience and innovation.

In his consulting work, Marv has had experience in leadership coaching, performance measurement design and assessment, strategy design and execution, team development as well as organizational design with both management teams and boards.  Marv has worked in health care, technology, education, and transportation sectors as well as other not-for-profit organizations.

These experiences have taught Marv how to listen well, earn trust, make conflict productive, bring clarity and synthesis to complex problems as well as how to navigate differing values across organizations and cultures.  He has found a home in difficult and ambiguous situations where his clear thinking and gracious manner have won the confidence of many.

Marv calls Waterloo home and loves to spend time with his wife and three children.   He enjoys the outdoors, is a sports enthusiast, an avid reader and always looks for another carpentry project when opportune times present themselves.

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