Francine develops professional coaches through supervision, mentoring, and training, drawing on two and a half decades as a coach and a twenty-five-year career in adult education. She is an adjunct faculty for Coaching Supervision Academy North America. For several years, she has provided coach training and mentoring to STEM faculty at HBCUs as part of an NSF initiative to increase diversity in STEM fields.  She has also been the director of the graduate-level coach training program and provides ongoing professional development to coaching associations and organizations.  

Francine’s scholarly activities in support of coaching include serving as Editor (Americas) for the International Coaching Psychology Review. She is currently coordinating a collaborative study on ethical dilemmas in coaching and coach supervision.

Francine was Associate Editor for a Special Issue of the Journal of Negro Education (Howard University Press) and co-author of a study on coaching in historically Black colleges and universities.  She was lead editor for Coaching Supervision: Voices from the Americas and co-edited Innovations in Leadership Coaching Research and Practice.  Her publications include a case study on the coaching/psychotherapy boundary, ethics in coaching promotion, the impact of life events on coaches and their coaching, and book chapters on adult learning theories in coaching, reflective learning for coaches, and coaching in the adult workplace.

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Francine is the granddaughter of immigrants – a tailor and a seamstress.  She is also a senior student at the Zen Center of Denver with a twenty-six-year practice in Zen meditation.  Francine can be reached at [email protected]; website: www.francinecampone.com