Ann Francke

Chief Executive

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

Ann Francke, CEO of Chartered Management Institute (CMI), author of: Financial Times Guide to Management: How to Make a Difference and Get Results and winner of the ‘Louis Armstrong award for outstanding leadership of a UK professional body’ at the 2016 MemCom Awards.

Ann is a transformational leader with vision, pace and proven ability to deliver profitable growth and build organisational capability.  At CMI, she uses her experience in leading organisations to promote best practices in management and leadership, and improve management standards across the UK and beyond. Ann 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.

Ann 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 Ann was Global General Manager at the British Standards Institution, held executive board positions at Boots and Yell and was European Vice President at Mars.  Ann began her career at P&G and managed a variety of international brands including Pampers, Always and Olay before rising to global general manager.

Ann holds a BA with Distinction from Stanford and an MBA/MS from Columbia and an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from UWE.

Ann and her husband live in West London; she has one daughter.