Ann Friedland Francke
Class of 1976
Ann Friedland Francke is the CEO of Chartered
Management Institute (CMI) and the author of
Financial Times Guide to Management: How to
Make a Difference and Get Results. She is winner
of the “Louis Armstrong Award for outstanding
leadership of a UK professional body” at the 2016
MemCom Awards.
Ms. Francke is a transformational leader with
vision, pace and proven ability to deliver profitable
growth and build organizational capability.
At CMI, she uses her experience in leading
organizations to promote best practices in
management and leadership, and improve
management standards across the UK and beyond.
Ms. Francke has been named in the top 100 women to watch in the 2015 Female
FTSE report from Cranfield and is an expert on current challenges facing women
in the workplace.
She is Strategic Advisor at Tongal and Grant Thornton International. She is also a
member of the CRUK Women of Influence Board; member of WACL and MGGB
and an Advisory Board member of Lancaster
Management, Nottingham Trent and the Open University Business Schools.
Prior to CMI Ms. Francke was Global General
Manager at the British Standards Institution, held
executive board positions at Boots and 
Yell and was
European Vice President at Mars. She began her
career at P&G and managed a variety of
international brands including Pampers, Always
and Olay before rising to global general manager.
Ms. Francke holds a BA with Distinction from
Stanford and an MBA/MS from Columbia and an
Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration
from University of West England.
She and her husband live in West London; she has
one daughter.