Ms. Franklin is presently the Principal and Founder of Franklin & Bridges, LLC. Currently, she consults on leaderships and business issues for individuals and corporations. A resident of Nevada since 2001, she is a retired Human Resources professional who has held senior or chief HR officer positions with Tower Automotive, the Ford Motor Company and Colgate Palmolive, among other companies. In her C-suite role at Tower Automotive, Ms. Franklin was responsible for the fully insured and self-insured health care plans for all employees.  She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MBA from Vanderbilt University with concentrations on Human Resources and Marketing.