How do we know? Because we’ve been doing Fractional work since way before it was cool.

Four years ago, when we started talking about offering fractional people leadership, more than a few people told us it wouldn't work. Good to see that opinion aged like milk.

Now everyone's talking about fractional CFOs, COOs, CMOs, and of course our favourite, CPOs. Turns out you can have access to a seriously experienced executive without employing them five days a week.

Who knew? Apart from us, of course. You’re welcome.

Isn’t Fractional just corporate-speak for Part-Time?

Nope.

A part-time employee is exactly that: an employee working fewer hours.

A fractional executive brings senior leadership capability into your business without becoming another permanent executive on your payroll.

At its most embedded, that means sitting alongside your executive leadership team, contributing to strategic decisions, challenging assumptions, taking ownership of outcomes and helping steer the business.

The best part about a Fractional offering is how it flexes to suit your business.

Sometimes you need a CPO at the leadership table for a major structural change, or to deliver some sensitive messages to mitigate the risk of legal action. Sometimes you need an experienced HR practitioner onsite half a day a week to upskill your people leaders. Sometimes you just need a trusted advisor to take your call if things hit the fan.  As your business evolves, you can dial the level of support up or down. Your business doesn't stand still, so why should your HR costs?

With Fractional, you only pay for what you need, when you need it.

What sort of business needs Fractional support?

For growing businesses, founder-led companies, lean leadership teams and organisations navigating change, fractional leadership offers the best of both worlds: serious executive firepower without the full-time executive overhead. You get the support to make big decisions confidently.

A business with 80 employees has the same complex restructures, board decisions and employee issues as one with 8,000. Except the smaller business has fewer resources, less room for error, and more at stake when things go wrong. On top of that, it can’t justify the salary of a top-tier CPO.

That’s where we come in.

Our founder, Robyn Djelassi, brings decades of executive people leadership, board advisory, IPO and M&A experience across Australian and international businesses, including Groq, Whispir, Vinomofo, Crown, Suncorp, and AAMI, to name a few.

In a nutshell, you get big-business expertise without the big-business price tag.

What do you get for your retainer hours?

Sometimes people get hung up on this. A business might worry about how much can be achieved if they’ve only ‘got us’ for twenty hours a month.  

A hell of a lot, actually.

We're not there to fill a working week: there are no water-cooler conversations or learning the basics on your dime. Your billable hours are focused, high-value work.

Because we’ve spent years dealing with the kinds of situations you're facing, you’ll get the best decision-making, problem-solving, and support in the shortest time.

Rather than asking, "How many hours am I buying?", ask "What do I need to achieve?" We'll tailor the support to your business objectives.

The “fun” stuff we do for our clients

Think of all the things that nobody on your leadership team is excited about handling…Redundancies. Grievances. Bullying allegations. Sexual harassment complaints. Performance issues with ‘that worker’ which everyone has been dancing around for eighteen months.

Handle these situations wrong and you can end up tens of thousands in the hole on employment lawyers, not to mention the management time, disruption and reputational damage.

Top-tier Fractional support will identify issues early and manage the difficult conversations, investigations, restructures and employee matters before things blow up.

If your first conversation about a brewing people issue is with a lawyer, you’ve left it too late.

We don’t compete with your HR team

Maybe you have a capable HR manager who occasionally needs executive-level backup. Maybe you need a fractional CPO for a major transformation. Maybe you're an overseas business establishing Australian operations and need someone who understands the local employment landscape.

Or maybe you need a few hours of experienced support each month, with the option to increase it when circumstances change.

There's no prize for having the biggest executive team. The prize is having the right people making the right decisions, at the right time.

We don’t just talk the talk, we walk the walk

Our fractional COO, Sam Micich, brings 25+ years of leadership experience, including as COO of a $200 million tech recruitment business.

Do we need her full-time? Nope. Do we get serious executive firepower without the full-time price tag? Absolutely.

We don't just sell the model. We use it.

So, what does your business actually need?

Not sure? That's exactly where we can help.

Let's have a chat about what your business needs and how we can support you.

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