Business Coaching

Looking for business advice and feedback on how to steer your organization forward or a place to chat about your revenue diversification strategies? INN’s Chief Knowledge Officer Fran Scarlett holds INN Office Hours every other Wednesday.

Services include:



  • Assess and enhance your current business plans
  • Evaluate new opportunities comprehensively
  • Develop and implement new strategies and business models



About: Fran Scarlett is a professional business growth coach with a background in journalism. She specializes in helping organizations understand and leverage their value propositions to build business models that maximize their potential for revenue growth and long-term sustainability.

Fran has extensive experience in starting and growing businesses. She ran her own management consulting firm, Scarlett Ink Media, providing strategic and tactical consulting to news media organizations with an emphasis on developing new revenue models, product development and cross-platform collaborations. She has been regional director of the Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC) at the University of North Carolina. She received her MBA from Harvard University and a B.S. in Mass Communications from Boston University.

Rate: Free for INN members, $100 per hour for non-members

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