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"Hearing Frank's message may just change your life." Callie Rennison, PhD author, educator, advocate

Strategic Advisor to CEOs and Executive Teams
Leadership, Culture, and Performance

Helping organizations turn leadership and culture into business performance.
Former Walmart Global People Development Partner. Trusted advisor to leaders across enterprise and growth companies.

Organizations rarely struggle because of strategy alone. Performance slows when leadership teams become misaligned, roles grow unclear, or culture drifts as companies grow. Frank Niles works alongside CEOs and executive teams to solve the people challenges that quietly limit execution. As a strategic advisor and Fractional CHRO, he helps leaders strengthen leadership capability, align teams around clear priorities, and build organizations that deliver sustained business results.

 

Situations Leaders Call About

Companies often reach out when they are navigating moments of growth or transition.

Common situations include:
⇒ Rapid growth that has outpaced leadership capability and organizational structure
⇒ teams that are talented but not fully aligned around priorities and decision making
⇒ among key roles that is beginning to affect performance and morale
⇒ promoted managers who have never been trained to lead people
⇒ beginning to drift as the organization expands or integrates new teams
⇒ A CEO spending too much time resolving people issues instead of leading the business

How Frank Helps
Frank works with organizations in several ways, depending on the stage and needs of the business.

Strategic Advisor to CEOs and Executive Teams
Frank serves as a trusted advisor to CEOs and senior leaders navigating growth, transformation, and organizational complexity. His work focuses on strengthening leadership teams, improving decision making, and aligning people and strategy so organizations can execute with clarity.

Fractional CHRO
Growing companies often need experienced people leadership before they are ready for a full time CHRO. In this role, Frank partners with leadership teams to build leadership capability, improve organizational structure, strengthen management practices, and address the people challenges that accompany growth.

Leadership and Culture Performance
Frank helps organizations translate culture into clear leadership behaviors and operational practices. His work focuses on building strong leaders, improving alignment, and creating the conditions where teams perform at their best.

Who Frank Works With
Over the past two decades, Frank has advised both global enterprises and growing companies across industries including retail, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, professional services, and the pet care industry. Whether supporting a founder navigating rapid growth or an enterprise leadership team driving transformation, the focus remains the same. Help leaders build organizations where people, culture, and performance reinforce one another.

Frank brings together deep expertise in leadership psychology with strong commercial perspective. His work helps organizations improve decision making, reduce costly turnover, strengthen leadership capability, and translate people strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Sought After Speaker
Frank is also a sought after speaker who regularly addresses executive teams, industry conferences, and professional audiences across the United States and internationally. Each year he presents to groups ranging from senior leadership forums to large industry gatherings, sharing practical insights on leadership, culture, and organizational performance.

Drawing on more than two decades of advising organizations, along with the latest research in leadership psychology and organizational behavior, Frank delivers presentations that are intellectually rigorous and immediately applicable. His work has reached tens of thousands of professionals across a wide range of industries.

His insights have been featured by CNN, Fast Company, NBC, Forbes, C-SPAN, and Inc. His writing appears in The Huffington Post, Thrive Global, and other publications focused on leadership and organizational performance.

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If you are a CEO or executive leader facing one of these moments in your organization, Frank welcomes the conversation.

Connect on LinkedIn or reach out directly to start the dialogue.

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The Blog

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