Leadership Studies · Executive Coaching

Become the leader your legacy is waiting for.

A research-backed practice for executives ready to close the distance between who they are and who they're capable of becoming.

Jaime FrancoPhD, Leadership Studies
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Dr. Jaime Franco

About

Built for the room where it actually happens.

My work sits at the intersection of leadership development, character formation, and organizational behavior — with a growing focus on emotional intelligence, moral exhaustion, and what AI is doing to how we lead.

  • Leadership Development
  • Character Formation
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Moral Exhaustion
  • AI & Leadership

01 — Approach

Potential isn't a personality trait.
It's a discipline you can build.

Most leadership advice is opinion in a good suit. My work starts with the research — then takes shape in the room with your team, until it becomes the version of leadership only you can offer the world. You don't need more inspiration. You need a way to turn what you're capable of into what you actually do.

You don't need more inspiration. You need a way to turn what you're capable of into what you actually do.

02 — Practice Areas

Where the leverage is.

01

Executive Coaching

Direct, one-on-one counsel for leaders ready to close the gap between where they lead from today and where they're capable of leading from next.

02

Organizational Diagnosis

A precise read on how trust, power, and possibility actually move through your organization — so you can build deliberately toward what it could become.

03

Leadership Development Design

Programs built from the research and shaped around your people — designed to help every leader in the room grow into who they're becoming.

04

Moral Exhaustion & AI in Leadership

Original research and advisory on the newest pressure leaders face — the fatigue of constant ethical judgment calls, now compounded by AI's role in the decision.

15+

Years Building Leaders

150+

Executives Coached

2

Regions — U.S. & LAC

Coaching delivered in English and Spanish

03 — Current Research

Forthcoming.

Book — In Progress

Momentum Shift Theory

A framework for professional and personal development, co-authored with Ellen Latham and Dr. Theo — on the mechanics of building momentum toward the life and leadership you're capable of, and what actually shifts when it happens.

04 — Series

Beyond Right
and Wrong.

New Social Series

A show for leaders navigating the decisions that don't come with a clean answer — where ethics, character, and consequence collide in the real world, one episode at a time.

05 — Selected Engagements

Recent rooms.

FedEx

Executive coaching, global operations leadership

U.S. & LAC Government Systems

Executive coaching across U.S. and Latin America & Caribbean leadership

Broadspire, an Aetna Company

Executive coaching for organizational leadership

Royal Caribbean Group

Executive coaching for cruise line leadership

FIU / Baptist Health

Coaching for residents on leadership under clinical pressure

FIU Family Medicine Faculty

Coaching for faculty in leadership and character formation

06 — Contact

Your next chapter starts with one decision.

Begin the Work
Est.
2026
Dr. Jaime Franco · Leadership Studies