Since 1985 when she founded Carroll, Franck & Associates (CF&A), Anne Carroll has provided a variety of consulting services to public, nonprofit, and private organizations, including the following:

Public Involvement and Strategic Planning:

Anne Carroll has been a strategic planner and public involvement consultant for over 25 years, serving primarily the public sector.

Areas of specialization and extensive work include the following:

• Designing and delivering authentic and transparent public participation processes
• Bringing underrepresented voices to the table
• Challenging public policy issues
• Multistakeholder environments
• Innovative engagement techniques
• Community visioning
• Strategic planning
• Decision-making
• Organizational development, team-building, and group process

Training and Teaching: Designing, developing, and delivering workshops, training sessions, and graduate-level instruction on strategic planning, public participation, engaging diverse communities, writing and communications, and decision making.

Education: Anne received a Master of Planning in public affairs from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota in 1983 with a concentration in policy process and decision making. She received a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and English from the same university in 1978 (Phi Beta Kappa).

Community Service: She currently serves as an elected member of the St. Paul Board of Education, is a Board member International Association for Public Participation – USA (IAP2 USA), a member of the League of Women Voters statewide Diversity Committee, and on the boards of  the Urban Youth Leadership Connection, and E-Democracy.Org.

Certifications: Current DBE, SBE, or WBE certifications include the State of Minnesota and regional agencies; Hennepin County, Ramsey County, City of Minneapolis, City of St. Paul, and subsidiary agencies; the University of Minnesota; and federal 49 CFR Part 26.