Fran Scarlett

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. Scarlett is  a member of Blue Engine Collaborative, a consortium of consultants and advisors to media companies, startups, foundations, academia, and others, on revenue and audience growth, product development, consumer user experience and digital strategy.

Prior to that she served as chief knowledge officer at the Institute for Nonprofit News, a network of 350+ nonprofit, mostly digital newsrooms where she oversaw the network’s capacity-building programs in revenue generation, business strategy, leadership development and organizational equity. 

Scarlett is an alum as well as a coach in the Media Transformation Challenge housed at Poynter Institute. She also coached in the Knight-Lenfest Table Stakes program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Scarlett has coached in the Meta Accelerator program, the Google News Initiative Sponsorship Lab and the Center for Public Broadcasting Digital Transformation Program. 

She serves on the boards of  DREAMS of Wilmington and the NC Local News Workshop. She is also on the advisory board of the Pivot Fund and the GNI Global Sustainability Study. She has served on multiple nonprofit boards and 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 and traveler and has a goal to visit all seven  continents.