Posts in Interim and Fractional
How Much to Spend on Your Fractional Executive

Fee models for fractional executives have an art and a science, a balance between multiple factors, and an element of “as-high-or-as-low-as-desperation-takes-you” to it. And that is not too different from the permanent job market: There are job postings for a VP of Sales on Indeed right now, one making $80k, the other over $500k a year.

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Leveraging a Fractional Sales Leader to Reach Your First $1 Million in Revenue

In the world of startups and small businesses, achieving that elusive first $1 million in revenue can often feel like an insurmountable hurdle. It requires strategic planning, effective execution, and a dedicated team.

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Hiring an Interim Executive: What to Look For and How to Ensure a Successful Placement

Learn how to find the right interim executive for your business. Evaluate skills, experience, and cultural fit to ensure a successful placement.

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Why The Cannabis Sector Needs Fractional Executives Now More Than Ever

The cannabis sector is a complex organism. It has all the challenges and logistical puzzles of any CPG industry, with the added spice of varying degrees of legality depending on where you’re operating.

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The Commitment of a Fractional Executive

Their future work relies upon referrals and a successful track record. Interim and Fractional Executives are paid on the understanding of goals and objectives being performed and delivered, and not merely based on attendance.

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The Dollar-Per-Hour Math

The Fractional Executive does not come with any of the add-ons (paid days off, benefits, recruiting fee, productivity losses), and their engagement is also right-sized to the business needs in terms of talent and time, and they are immediately available.

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4 Steps to Find Your Fractional Superpower

After 30 years in sales, revenue, or growth, most executives have done a lot of different things; in fact, many LinkedIn profiles look alike. Most everyone has worked at a few nameplate accounts, has delivered substantial growth, has built and transformed, hired and coached, and exited successfully. But now it is time to identify your superpower!

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Scaling Draper & Olsen: Navigating the Pitfalls of a Growing Services Firm

A gifted founder CEO, often with a vague-at-best exit strategy, who’s both the lead technician and the company’s best/only salesperson. And a resistance to standardization, usually attributed to the bespoke, variable, heuristic, or technical nature of the work itself. 

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When the Going Gets Tough, Go Fractional

I get asked quite often about the state of the Fractional Industry and what I am seeing on the supply and demand side. My answer runs the risk of being self-serving, and at the same time, as an industry, I feel we need to tell the story. If we don’t, who will?

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