Fractional leadership

A technology executive in your organisation, part of each week.

A Chief AI Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Head of Customer Decisioning or Chief Transformation Officer joins your organisation on an agreed number of days, holding the role and its decisions rather than advising on them from the outside.

4 executive rolesPart of each weekScoped in writing
How it is shaped

One executive, embedded in your team

This is not a consultancy team and not an interim placement. It is one person with the relevant delivery record, accountable inside your structure for part of every week.

CommitmentPart of each week
TermAgreed up front
FeesScoped per engagement
Discuss a fractional role
Executive roles

Four roles, each held at executive level.

The title follows your structure, whether that is Chief, General Manager or Head of. The remit is what gets written down.

01
Chief AI Officer
  • Owns the AI strategy and decides the order in which it gets built.
  • Puts governance, evaluation and guardrails in place before anything reaches a customer.
  • Takes pilots out of the lab and into governed production use.
  • Represents AI at the executive table and in front of the board.
02
Chief Technology Officer
  • Sets the technology direction and holds the architecture decisions across platform and migration programmes.
  • Maps dependencies and integration points before they turn into cutover risk.
  • Reviews vendor and platform proposals against your real constraints rather than their slides.
  • Leads the engineering and architecture teams, and the suppliers around them.
03
Head of Customer Decisioning
  • Owns next-best-action and Pega CDH programmes from design through to live operation.
  • Aligns marketing, risk and technology on what the decisioning is there to do.
  • Sets the operating model for propositions, arbitration and measurement.
  • Builds the in-house capability that keeps it running after the engagement ends.
04
Chief Transformation Officer
  • Runs the transformation portfolio across migration and modernisation programmes.
  • Makes dependencies, risks and trade-offs visible to the executives who own them.
  • Holds suppliers and internal teams to a single plan.
  • Leaves the delivery practices in place when the engagement ends.
Board and advisory positions

Advisory board and non-executive positions are considered on the same basis: a defined remit, agreed in writing, in the areas where I have delivered the work myself.

When it fits

The situations fractional leadership is built for.

  • An executive seat is empty right now, and a permanent hire is still months away.
  • The role is real, but it does not justify a full-time executive.
  • A capability is being built in-house and needs an executive owner until it can stand on its own.
  • The same class of decision keeps arriving, and each one needs someone accountable for it.
When it does not

Where another format serves you better.

  • The role requires a full-time presence.
  • What you need is delivery capacity rather than leadership.
  • It is a single decision rather than an ongoing role, which is exactly what focused advisory is for.
  • The role sits outside the areas I know first-hand: enterprise AI, technology, customer decisioning and transformation.
How it runs

How it runs, from the first remit to the final handover.

Everything is agreed in writing before day one and reviewed at the end of every term.

Step 01
Define the role

I write down the remit, the decisions the role owns and who it reports to before anything else happens.

Step 02
Agree the shape

We agree the days per week, the term, whether the work is on site or remote, and how the engagement will end.

Step 03
Establish where things stand

The first weeks go into understanding the function as it really is, rather than as the deck describes it.

Step 04
Lead the work

I lead the work inside your governance and alongside your teams and suppliers, on a fixed weekly rhythm you can plan around.

Step 05
Plan the handover

Whoever holds the role next, whether a permanent hire or someone internal, starts from a running function rather than a gap.

Step 06
Review at the end of each term

Together we decide whether to continue, reshape or stop, and stopping is a perfectly valid outcome.

Scope

This is one executive, not a delivery team, an interim placement through an agency or a way to add capacity at a lower rate. It is limited to the areas I have delivered in myself. Decisions are taken within the agreed remit and inside your governance, and nothing outside it.

Next step

Tell me about the executive seat that needs filling.

Tell me the role, the decisions it would own and roughly how much of the week it needs. If a scoped piece of advisory would cover it instead, I will say so.