What Industries Use Fractional Sales Leaders?

While software and professional services remain the most prominent verticals, fractional sales leadership is now firmly established across a wide range of industries.

Healthcare, financial services, technology and hardware, cybersecurity, construction, CPG, and manufacturing all represent meaningful portions of assignment activity. This diversification signals growing acceptance of fractional leadership in traditionally conservative or operationally complex environments.

The common denominator is not industry, but complexity:

• organizations with multi-stakeholder buying processes

• evolving go-to-market models

• scaling challenges

Data Source:

2025 State of Fractional Sales Leadership Report

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