Embedded leadership —
without the full-time hire.
FRACTIONAL FOUNDER | CHIEF OF STAFF
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Part-time on the org chart. All-in on the hard parts.

Here’s the thing about hiring a fractional executive: most organizations come to it because something isn’t working, and they’re not entirely sure what. The strategy looks right on paper. The team is capable. And yet…

I embed in your organization one to three days a week. What that looks like is me attending leadership meetings, managing cross-functional initiatives, building the systems that actually need to exist. I stay until things are moving, then I hand it all back to your very capable team. I’m in it with you, accountable for real outcomes, building infrastructure that honors how your organization works.

The map said one thing. We’ll figure out what the territory is actually saying, together.

WHAT I ACTUALLY DO

Strategic coordination Thinking partner to your ED or CEO. I translate vision into roadmaps with real owners and real timelines, coordinate the initiatives that cross every team’s turf, and protect your executive’s time for the work only they can do like fundraising, external relationships, the big picture.

Operational leadership Design and implement the systems your organization actually needs: workflows, decision-making processes, communication structures, metrics that tell the true story. I build for scale without building bureaucracy, and I make sure institutional knowledge lives somewhere other than one person’s head.

Team development Break down silos. Build decision-making muscle. Assess what’s actually going on with your culture versus what you hope is going on. And critically, I train your team to own every system I build, so eventually you don’t need me. That’s not a bug. That’s the whole point.

Real-time support I’m in the room. I attend key meetings, make decisions alongside your team, and keep strategic priorities actually moving forward instead of getting buried under whatever’s on fire this week.

WHO THIS IS FOR

  • Growing organizations

    $500K–$5M budget. Things are working, but your old processes are slowing you down and you’re not ready for a full-time COS.

  • Organizations in transition

    New leadership, a pivot, a merger, layoffs – you need steady operational hands while the map gets redrawn.

  • Executives drowning in ops

    You’re great at vision but stuck in execution. You need someone to own the day-to-day so you can focus on the work only you can do.

  • Teams with silos

    Great people, weak coordination. No one’s connecting the dots across functions to make sure things actually get done.

  • Map ≠ territory

    Decisions happen differently than the org chart says. Official processes get routed around. I diagnose the gaps and close them.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

The three-month, six-month, twelve-month milestone lists that live on most pages like this one are a little optimistic. Every organization is different, and what’s stuck is almost never what it looks like from the outside.

What I can tell you is the general shape of it.

Early on, we figure out what’s actually going on. Stuck projects start moving. Your executive gets their time back. The team gets clarity on priorities.

By the middle, you have operational rhythms that actually work. Meetings that have a point. Decision-making that doesn’t require the ED to be in the room every time. Systems that reflect how your organization genuinely operates, not the aspirational version.

By the end of a full engagement, the goal is that things run smoothly when I’m not there. Your team owns the systems. The map and the territory are, if not identical, at least honest with each other.

And if something goes sideways along the way?

It’s fine. We’ll fix it.

Ready to Close the Gap?

Start with a conversation about what’s actually going on and whether fractional operations leadership is the right fit.

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