Francisco Solares is a Senior Program Manager with OBAN Corporation. He is recognized for his expertise in collaborating with individuals and leaders to strengthen mission delivery and organizational effectiveness. With a strong track record of introducing innovative service delivery solutions and leading top-performing consulting teams, Francisco is a catalyst for organizational growth. His expertise spans shared services design, program and project management, change management, and strategic organizational transformation.

Experience Summary

Francisco has over 20 years’ experience in consulting leadership roles helping organizations and individual navigate and capitalize on change opportunities. His career highlights include serving as a trusted partner capable of delivering complex enterprise transformation programs by harmonizing conflict with strategic intent. When faced with a career inflection point, Francisco chose coaching to continue strengthening his ability to nurture constructive relationships with clients that enable them to achieve continued success.

Highlighted Projects & Engagements

Francisco is a dynamic and results-driven executive, recognized for considerable success in business development and delivery within the public sector’s human capital arena. He combines his extensive expertise in leading top-performing consulting teams to introduce service delivery innovation at the nexus of people and technology. He is passionate about building people up and helping others transcend personal and professional challenges. Francisco’s experience delivering organizational development and workforce solutions includes:

• Coached operations directors at Aleut Federal in business development and sales resulting in increased pipeline of $125M within existing clients in various Civilian cabinet-level agencies.
• Led ManpowerGroup’s RPO push into the Federal market, building a compelling cross-brand team to capture $150M 5-year Talent Acquisition program with the US Department of Commerce.
• Led development of a Federal Financial Management Career Roadmap, guiding employee and skills development initiatives for over 110K finance professionals across 24 largest Government agencies.
• Led the design and implementation of a Department of Defense leadership development program for Civilian Senior Executives to expand enterprise leadership and general management competencies.

Education and Training

Francisco earned his Masters of Business Administration in Strategic Management from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business from Roanoke College. Francisco has an Executive Coach Certification from the Center of Executive Coaching (November 2024). He is currently working towards an Associate Certified Coach credential from the International Coaching Federation (target end of 2025).