About Navran Associates 2

Navran Associates 2 (na2) is the renewal of Navran Associates - focused on ethics and leadership from 1986-1996 and providing consulting, training and speaking services to more than 100 client organizations.

na2 begins its a new era of delivering consulting, training and presentation services with strong partners, valued clients and a simple promise: na2 will deliver all agreed-to results or the client pays nothing.

About Frank J. Navran

Frank J. Navran is the Principal of na2. He has thirty-five years of experience as a corporate manager, entrepreneur, consultant, trainer, facilitator, speaker and author. As a consultant he has served well over 100 clients ranging from sole proprietors to the world’s largest corporations, governments and associations both as President of Navran Associates (1986-1996) and as the Principal Consultant for the Ethics Resource Center (1996-2004).

His private sector clients included some of the world’s most respected organizations in manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, defense, retail, mining, energy, construction, hi-technology, petrochemicals, agriculture, financial services, pharmaceuticals and others.

Not-for-profit clients have included professional associations, membership and trade associations, educational institutions, special interest groups and lobbyists.

US government clients have included the USDA, IRS, DOD, CIA, US Air Force, US Navy, US Army, the Federal Judiciary and the Designated Agency Ethics Officers (DAEOs) of various federal departments and agencies. State and municipal clients including the Office of the Governor of New York and the Oregon Department of Transportation to the Office of the Mayor, District of Columbia.

International clients have provided consulting, training and speaking opportunities in nineteen countries on five continents

Frank has authored more than 100 published articles, four books and is frequently asked to provide expert opinion in areas related to organizational leadership, ethics, governance, global integrity concerns and related subjects.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCES

Principal Consultant, Ethics Resource Center Washington, DC - July 1996 - September 2004

• Consulting - Lead consultant on projects for US and international corporate clients in aerospace, communications, construction, defense, energy, finance and insurance, healthcare, hospitality manufacturing, media, mining, pharmaceuticals, sales, technology, textiles, utilities and others plus federal, state and municipal governments, multilateral organizations, educational institutions and professional, and membership associations.
• Training - Developed and delivered over fifty different ethics and leadership related workshops ranging from a simple ethics overviews for employees, to extended ethics officer certification programs, to ethics and leadership training for executive teams and boards of directors. Responsible for training ERC staff on ethics consulting and training content, skills and methodology.
• Writing - Wrote numerous articles and book chapters appearing in a variety of “non-academic” journals and publications from the Wall Street Lawyer to the Washington Business Journal to the ERC’s Ethics Today as well as serving on the editorial review committee of Public Integrity
• Speaking - Presented on organizational ethics and leadership issues at numerous conferences and conventions for a diverse group of clients ranging from the University of Virginia Conference on Bioethics, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Conference Boards of the US and Canada , the US Federal Reserve Bank, the US Office of the Controller of the Currency, The Governor’s Office of New York and the first Conference on Organizational Ethics in the United Arab Emirates
• Facilitation - Facilitator of the ERC Fellows Program, and numerous corporate organizational events with a focus on strategic ethics initiatives for senior executives, managers and boards of directors.
• Highlights of domestic experiences - included being lead consultant on projects for and developing/delivering training to over fifty corporations, non-profit associations, federal, state and local governmental agencies
• Highlights of international experiences - included acting as lead consultant in the formation and development of independent ethics centers in Colombia, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates and performing other, ethics related work in England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Spain and Switzerland.
• President, Navran Associates, Atlanta, GA - 1986-1996
  • Lead consultant on projects related to ethics, leadership and service quality for over one hundred clients, worldwide
  • Developed and delivered a curriculum of over forty ethics. leadership and service quality related workshops
  • Published four books and over eighty articles and book chapters in a variety of “non-academic” journals and publications. Regularly featured in Executive Excellence
  • Spoke at conferences and conventions for a diverse group of clients ranging from the National Conference on Applied Ethics to the annual meetings of the Positive Employee Practices Institute and the International Customer Service Association.
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the National Conference on Applied Ethics (1993-1996)

Bell Labs, Southern Bell and BellSouth

• 1982-86 - Internal Consultant to BellSouth with focus on ethics, strategic planning and organizational development
• 1979-82 - Internal Consultant and Training Manager at Southern Bell - Southeast Florida Area. First internal consultant in all of Southern Bell.
• 1977-79 - Construction Manager at Southern Bell - Southeast Florida
• 1972-77 - Training Manager and Assessment Center Director for Georgia operations of Southern Bell
• 1969-72 - Educational Technologist for Bell Labs - Holmdel, New Jersey - responsible for applied research in the use of technology to enhance adult learning

EDUCATION

University of Connecticut Storrs, CT - 1965-1969

• B.A., Major - Political Science with a Minor in Anthropology
• Graduated Cum Laude.

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

United States Air Force - 1961-1965

• Nuclear Weapons Fusing and Firing Systems Specialist.
  • 26th Air Defense Missile Squadron, Otis AFB, MA (BOMARC)
  • 50th Tactical Fighter Wing, Hahn AFB, Hahn, Germany (MACE)

OTHER NOTABLE EXPERIENCES

For information on publications and other notable experiences see Google or Yahoo and search for “Frank J. Navran” On any given search there are typically between 200 and 400 entries citing published articles, quoted references from published interviews or other relevant references