Steve Franks
Strategy | Innovation | Mindfulness
Strategy | Innovation
I work with Gensyn Design. We bring clarity to complex business decisions, enabling our clients to confidently build a successful future.Our blend of proven strategic techniques and collaborative facilitation co-creates innovative and actionable solutions together with our clients.
Prior to joining Gensyn Design I coached roughly 4,000 startup entrepreneurs and founded several startup venture accelerators around Northeast Indiana over two decades.Before that I worked as an innovation consultant for 6 years, helping Fortune 500 companies invent breakthrough next-generation products and customer experiences.
Mindfulness
I lead monthly guided mindfulness meditation workshops titled
"3 YOUs" at the DNA Awakening School located in Fort Wayne's Art and Awakening Center.Participants explore three perspectives of being to see themselves and the world in new ways.1. We see ourselves as individual
coherent humans.
2. But, we are made up of parts:
trillions of living cells.
3. And we ourselves are parts:
of a planet, which is part of a
solar system, which is part of a
galaxy, and so forth.
DIY Startup E-Books
I have published 2 DIY E-Books for startup founders and product innovators.Be Your Own Startup Coach is available for founders in both English and Spanish.Be Your Own Product Innovation Coach is available in English for new product developers.
Essays and Articles
My essays and articles about Entrepreneurship and Innovation are published at Substack.
About Me
A resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, I have nearly always worked around entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, and technology.The first company I started was a software company "back in the day". Since that time I have started or co-started several companies or programs: including a technology accelerator program, a co-working space, several regional venture accelerators, and two student entrepreneurship programs.I hold an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth Graduate School of Business with concentrations in marketing and finance. Upon graduation I was awarded the 1996 George Hay Brown Outstanding Marketing Scholar Prize.The icon for this section is a caricature by a talented young artist, Ashton Weir
@ash.art_0303 on Instagram.