Marv Franz
Biography
Marv Franz is a partner with The Change Alliance and consults with leaders, senior management teams, boards and networks of organizations navigating through change processes. He is skilled in helping leaders clarify the challenges they face, facilitating strategy and problem solving processes, and enabling leaders and teams to bring about the change required for their organizations.
Marv began working with The Change Alliance in 2006 and has applied his experience to the needs of his clients in strategy design and execution, organizational design, performance measurement design and assessment, executive team development as well as leadership coaching in North America and Latin America. In addition, he has experience helping boards develop governance systems that improve their impact and effectiveness, has published articles on board governance effectiveness, and has been a business lecturer. Marv has worked with small firms to multinationals in advertising, health care, technology, sports and entertainment, education, insurance and transportation, government sectors as well as other not-for-profit organizations. Some of his clients have included JWT, Co-operators Insurance, the Council of Ontario Universities, the University of Guelph, the Canadian Automobile Association, the Regional Municipality of Durham, the CWB Group, the Institute for Corporate Directors, the Kitchener Rangers and the Laurier Executive Development Centre.
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 (B.Sc. hons) and Education (B.Ed) as well as two graduate degrees in Theology.
Prior to this, Marv has spent over twelve years as a leadership and team developer in both informal and formal university and international NGO contexts. Over this period he has worked within university student services departments at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, and Wilfrid Laurier in Waterloo, Ontario. Here 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 NGO’s in developing world contexts in Latin America and Africa.