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Get the leadership you need before you can hire it.

Providing flexible, executive-level strategic and operational support to organisations that need experienced leadership without the commitment of a full-time executive.

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Small business owners · Canada · 2023

The average owner works a 54-hour week.

0204060 hours
Source: CFIB, April 2023.

You might recognise this.

If one of these sounds like your week, start here.

  • Everything still runs through me.
  • We need a COO, but not a full-time one yet.
  • Big decisions keep getting put off.
  • Our last leader left and took the know-how with them.

What the work includes.

Sized to your organisation. You choose what you need now, and we tell you what can wait.

Fractional leadership
A senior leader in a defined role, part time: strategy, governance, privacy or operations.
Executive advisory
A senior sounding board for owners and leaders facing a hard call, on a schedule that suits you.
Operational planning
Running the cadence that keeps a team moving: priorities, meetings that decide, and clear owners.
Organisational improvement
Fixing the processes and structures that slow the team down, starting with the ones that carry the most risk.
Decision support
The analysis and options behind a big decision, laid out clearly enough to decide and move.
Strategic implementation
Working beside your leaders until the new way of working holds without us.

What changes when it’s done.

Every engagement runs in three stages: understand, structure, implement. This is what you should notice at the end, and the kind of working document you keep.

  1. Room to lead

    Decisions stop waiting on one person, and the owner gets time back for the work only they can do.

  2. Senior judgment, sized to you

    Executive experience for the days you need it, without a full-time salary.

  3. Know-how that stays

    What we build gets written down and handed to your people, not carried out the door.

A fractional week · example

Two days with you. Five days of progress.

  1. MonYour teamRuns the plan
  2. TueWith youLeadership meeting and decisions
  3. WedYour teamRuns the plan
  4. ThuWith youProject review and coaching
  5. FriYour teamDecision log updated
Illustration. The number of days and the rhythm are set with you.
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Let’s clarify what comes next.

Tell us where things stand. We’ll reply to arrange a discovery call, and tell you honestly if we’re the right fit.

You’ll speak with Jessica McKay, MBA, CIPM, principal advisor.

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