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Francesco is strongest in building scalable operating processes, coordinating cross\-functional stakeholders, applying data to decisions, and cultivating trusted client and partner relationships\. His experience includes health coaching and care coordination, B2B partner relationship management, patient engagement, and motivating individuals through clear communication of health benefits\. Previously, at ThriveDX, Francesco designed an Instructor Success meeting that contributed to a 15% increase in student assessment scores across six cohorts and sustained NPS above 50 the format was subsequently applied to more than 120 cohorts\. At Florida International University, he helped launch more than 20 online degree programs across five colleges and supported 5% growth across managed colleges over an eight\-year period\. Francesco holds a BBA in Management from Florida International University’s College of Business and an Associate of Arts from Miami Dade College\. ## Services - Community Relations Management - Operations Administration - Operations Management - Wellness Consulting - Wellness Coaching - Health Counseling - Wellness Education - Program Management - Higher Education - Instructional Design - Staff Development - Leadership - Distance Learning - E\-Learning - Leadership Development - Student Affairs - Program Development - Program Evaluation - Student Development - Data Analysis - Adult Education - Community Outreach - Microsoft Office - Public Speaking - Project Management - Team Building ## Highlights - Leads group and individual performance training at Sweat Equity for athletes at varying levels of development, with programming focused on strength, conditioning, speed, agility, and mobility\. - Uses personalized verbal and visual technical cues at Sweat Equity to improve athlete biomechanics, movement patterns, and execution quality\. - Administers and tracks baseline and periodic performance measures, including force production, sprint times, and vertical jump, then adjusts athlete programming based on data trends\. - Incorporates nutrition and sleep and recovery foundations into performance coaching at Sweat Equity\. - Managed an approximately 400\-member health\-coaching caseload at Hinge Health across varied demographics and age groups\. - Guided personalized health plans and used motivational interviewing at Hinge Health to improve engagement, self\-management, and health outcomes\. - Applied data from surveys, assessments, activity patterns, and pain logs to inform health coaching at Hinge Health\. - Used AI tools to improve productivity and workflows at Hinge Health\. - Collaborated with therapists at Hinge Health to enhance care plans and identify critical member escalations\. - Built trusted member relationships through empathetic communication that encouraged long\-term health behavior change\. - Redesigned ThriveDX instructor onboarding from a one\-to\-one slide\-deck experience to a format supporting groups of more than 25 instructors\. - Designed, piloted, and implemented ThriveDX’s weekly Instructor Success meeting, contributing to a 15% increase in student assessment scores across six cohorts\. - Helped sustain NPS above 50 at ThriveDX through the Instructor Success meeting format, which was subsequently applied across more than 120 cohorts\. - Orchestrated complex instructor scheduling across disciplines at ThriveDX to improve logistics and resource utilization\. - Partnered with ThriveDX Product to create proprietary scheduling software for hyperscale scheduling across instructors, time zones, and disciplines\. - Managed more than 100 ThriveDX instructors across onboarding, payroll processing, appraisal, and separation of employment\. - Pioneered the ThriveDX Operations department and established dozens of standard operating procedures designed for immediate needs and hypergrowth scalability\. - Served as ThriveDX’s primary contact for academic\-partner leadership on student enrollment, escalations, and student metrics\. - Launched ThriveDX’s initial six university programs nationwide within eight months\. - Chaired ThriveDX cross\-functional meetings across operations, student success, admissions, HR recruiting, and curriculum to improve efficiency and reduce inter\-office disconnect\. - Conducted an LMS\-platform analysis at ThriveDX that informed strategic vendor selection\. - Oversaw ThriveDX’s Student Success department and supervised Student Success Managers\. - Processed instructor payroll at ThriveDX through Paychex and Workday and managed vendor payments and instructional\-material logistics\. - Launched more than 20 online degree programs across five colleges at Florida International University\. - Used Tableau at Florida International University to support a 5% growth rate across managed colleges over an eight\-year period\. - Used Salesforce and Tableau at Florida International University to forecast instructor workloads and staffing needs\. - Supervised a Florida International University team of more than 25 instructional designers, course developers, and program assistants, and chaired selection for more than a dozen instructional\-designer hires\. - Coordinated online and hybrid scheduling between FIU Online and the College of Business, developed hybrid\-program processes, and served as the College of Business contact for hybrid matters\. ## Experience - **Performance Coach at Sweat Equity** (2023\-05\-01–present) — \*Lead Group & Individual Training Sessions: Conduct structured performance workouts focusing on strength, conditioning, speed, agility, and mobility for athletes at varying levels of development\. \*Technical Queueing & Guidance: Provide clear, personalized verbal and visual cues to improve biomechanics, movement patterns, and execution quality throughout each session \(while considering unique attributes of each athlete\)\. \*Performance Assessment: Administer baseline and periodic evaluations \(e\.g\., force production, sprint times, vertical jump\) to measure progress and identify areas for improvement\. Track athlete performance metrics over time, interpret data trends, and adjust programming to ensure continual improvement\. \*Incorporate holistic health foundations, such as nutrition and sleep/recovery\. - **Health And Wellness Coach at Hinge Health** (2023\-02\-01–2024\-10\-01) — \*Guided personalized health plans, boosting member engagement and wellness\. \*Incorporated innovative approaches to motivational interviewing, enhancing self\-management skills and driving positive health outcomes for members\. \*Managed a caseload of ~400 members across a variety of demographics and age groups\. \*Applied data\-driven coaching, achieving significant health improvements \(including surveys, assessments, activity patterns, pain logs, etc\.\)\. \*Leveraged AI tools to elevate productivity and work flows\. \*Collaborated with therapists to enhance care plans, identifying situations when escalation was critical for member success\. \*Cultivated strong client relationships through empathetic communication, fostering trust and encouraging long\-term health behavior changes\. - **Senior Program Manager at ThriveDX \(formerly HackerU\)** (2021\-11\-01–2022\-05\-01) — \*Revamped Instructor Onboarding process to meet hypergrowth demands redesigning the slide deck presentation from a 1:1 experience to one suited for a group of 25\+ instructors\. \*Designed, piloted, and implemented the “Instructor Success” weekly meeting which resolved instructor\-company mission gaps, leading to an increase of 15% in students’ assessment scores across six cohorts and an NPS score >50 from that point on\. The impactful meeting format was applied across all disciplines \(120\+ cohorts\)\. \*Orchestrated intricate scheduling across multiple disciplines, ensuring seamless instructor logistics and maximizing resource utilization\. \*Partnered with the Product department to design and create a proprietary scheduling software which was critical for hyperscale scheduling, leveraging all instructors across all time zones and disciplines\. \*Managed 100\+ instructors to include: onboarding, payroll processing, appraisal, and separation of employment\. - **Operations Manager at ThriveDX \(formerly HackerU\)** (2019\-07\-01–2021\-12\-01) — \*Pioneered Operations department, establishing dozens of SOPs, addressing immediate needs as well as iterations designed for scalability in preparation for hypergrowth demands\. \*Primary contact for academic partner leadership interfacing on student enrollment, escalations, and student metrics\. \*Launched the initial six university programs nationwide \(within an eight month period\)\. \*Increased operational efficiency and  reduced inter\-office disconnect by implementing and chairing cross\-functional meeting between operations, student success, admissions, HR recruiting, and curriculum departments\. \*Conducted comprehensive LMS platform analysis, providing data\-driven insights that informed strategic vendor selection\. \*Oversaw the Student Success department and supervised the Student Success Managers\. \*Processed payroll for all instructors via Paychex/Workday\. \*Executed vendor payment and logistics for all instructional material \(classroom hardware, physical/digital books, in\-person gradu - **Program Manager at Florida International University** (2007\-01\-01–2019\-01\-01) — \*Expanded online degree offerings, launching 20\+ programs across five colleges\. \*Leveraged Tableau to increase enrollment revenue through data\-driven communication between colleges and recruitment teams\. Rate of growth met a 5% rate across all managed colleges over an eight year period\. \*Utilized Salesforce and Tableau data to forecast instructor workloads and staffing needs\. \*Developed administrative SOP’s across administrative functions such as course creation protocol and instructor assignment distribution by “course weight”\. \*Supervised a team of 25\+ \(Instructional Designers, Course Developers, Program Assistants\)\. Managed the majority of the employee lifecycle \(interviewing, hiring, onboarding, coaching, appraisal, disciplinary action, and separation of employment\)\. \*Chaired the interview and selection process for over a dozen Instructional Designer hires\. - **Program Assistant at Florida International University** (2004\-01\-01–2007\-01\-01) — \*Coordinated online/hybrid scheduling between FIU Online and College of Business, fostering seamless communication and program alignment\. \*Developed hybrid program processes, improving efficiency and student engagement\. \*Assigned as the point of contact for College of Business for all hybrid matters\. ## Education - BBA, Management — Florida International University \- College of Business (2001\-01\-01–2003\-01\-01) - Associate of Arts \- AA — Miami Dade College (1997\-01\-01–2000\-01\-01) ## FAQ ### What does Francesco do now? Francesco is a Performance Coach at Sweat Equity\. He conducts structured group and individual workouts for athletes at different stages of development, with emphasis on strength, conditioning, speed, agility, and mobility\. ### What are Francesco's core professional strengths? Francesco brings 21 years of experience in operations, program management, client success, higher education, health and wellness\. His work combines leadership, project management, data\-driven decision\-making, relationship management, and scalable process development\. ### How does Francesco coach athletes at Sweat Equity? At Sweat Equity, Francesco provides personalized verbal and visual cues to improve biomechanics, movement patterns, and execution quality while accounting for each athlete’s individual attributes\. He administers baseline and periodic evaluations, including force production, sprint\-time, and vertical\-jump measures tracks performance trends and adjusts programming to support ongoing improvement\. He also incorporates nutrition and sleep and recovery foundations into coaching\. ### What did Francesco do as a Health and Wellness Coach at Hinge Health? At Hinge Health, Francesco guided personalized health plans, used motivational interviewing to strengthen member self\-management, and applied data from surveys, assessments, activity patterns, and pain logs to support health improvements\. He managed a caseload of approximately 400 members across demographic and age groups, used AI tools to improve productivity and workflows, collaborated with therapists on care plans and critical escalations, and built client trust through empathetic communication that supported long\-term behavior change\. ### What is Francesco's background in health and wellness? Francesco has experience in health coaching, performance coaching, patient engagement, care coordination, and B2B partner relationship management in a health context\. He is motivated by community health outcomes and by helping organizations achieve optimal health results, and he is seeking to combine his administrative operations background with his health\-sector experience\. ### What did Francesco accomplish as Senior Program Manager at ThriveDX? As Senior Program Manager at ThriveDX, formerly HackerU, Francesco redesigned instructor onboarding for hypergrowth, changing a one\-to\-one slide\-deck experience into one designed for groups of more than 25 instructors\. He orchestrated scheduling across disciplines, partnered with Product on proprietary scheduling software for hyperscale use across instructors, time zones, and disciplines, and managed more than 100 instructors across onboarding, payroll, appraisals, and employment separations\. ### How did Francesco improve student outcomes at ThriveDX? Francesco designed, piloted, and implemented ThriveDX’s weekly Instructor Success meeting to address gaps between instructors and the company mission\. Across six cohorts, the meeting contributed to a 15% increase in student assessment scores and NPS above 50, and its format was later applied across all disciplines serving more than 120 cohorts\. ### What did Francesco accomplish as Operations Manager at ThriveDX? As Operations Manager at ThriveDX, formerly HackerU, Francesco pioneered the Operations department and established dozens of standard operating procedures for immediate needs and scalable growth\. He was the primary contact for academic\-partner leadership on enrollment, escalations, and student metrics launched the first six university programs nationwide within eight months and chaired cross\-functional meetings involving operations, student success, admissions, HR recruiting, and curriculum to improve efficiency and reduce inter\-office disconnect\. ### What operational responsibilities did Francesco hold at ThriveDX? Francesco conducted a comprehensive LMS\-platform analysis that provided data\-driven input for strategic vendor selection\. He oversaw the Student Success department and its managers, processed instructor payroll through Paychex and Workday, and handled vendor payments and logistics for classroom hardware, physical and digital books, in\-person graduations, and events\. ### What did Francesco accomplish as Program Manager at Florida International University? As Program Manager at Florida International University, Francesco expanded online degree offerings by launching more than 20 programs across five colleges\. He used Tableau to support data\-driven communication between colleges and recruitment teams, contributing to a 5% growth rate across managed colleges over an eight\-year period\. He also used Salesforce and Tableau to forecast instructor workloads and staffing needs\. ### What leadership and process work did Francesco perform at Florida International University? At Florida International University, Francesco developed administrative standard operating procedures for functions including course\-creation protocols and instructor\-assignment distribution by course weight\. He supervised a team of more than 25 instructional designers, course developers, and program assistants, managing much of the employee lifecycle from interviewing and hiring through onboarding, coaching, appraisal, disciplinary action, and separation\. He also chaired interviews and selection for more than a dozen instructional\-designer hires\. ### What was Francesco's role as a Program Assistant at Florida International University? As a Program Assistant at Florida International University, Francesco coordinated online and hybrid scheduling between FIU Online and the College of Business, developed hybrid\-program processes to improve efficiency and student engagement, and served as the College of Business point of contact for hybrid matters\. ### How does Francesco approach cross\-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment? Francesco is experienced in managing stakeholder pushback and negotiating toward better outcomes\. He identifies systemic problems, creates operating rhythms that improve engagement and outcomes, and has coordinated instructors, student success, product, and curriculum teams through structured meetings and feedback processes\. ### What skills does Francesco bring to operations, education, and wellness work? Francesco's skills include community relations management, operations administration and management, wellness consulting and coaching, health counseling and wellness education, program management, higher education, instructional design, staff development, leadership, distance learning, e\-learning, leadership development, student affairs, program development and evaluation, student development, data analysis, adult education, community outreach, Microsoft Office, public speaking, project management, and team building\. ### What is Francesco's educational background? Francesco earned a BBA in Management from Florida International University’s College of Business in 2003\. He also earned an Associate of Arts from Miami Dade College in 2000\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/francescoademarco