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Fractional Leadership
An experienced leader at your side: strategy, sales and CEO support, two days a month, from £1,850 a month.
Carrying it alone
You know what needs to happen. The hard part is making it happen: the day job doesn’t stop, the list keeps growing, and everything senior still lands on one or two people.
- The strategy exists, but nobody has the time to drive it
- Sales still depends on the founder, and the pipeline shows it
- Big calls with no experienced, impartial voice to test them against
- The next stage needs capability the team does not have yet
What two days a month gets you
The strategy, driven
Priorities, owners and pace: the plan carried forward between board meetings by someone senior, so it stops slipping.
Support for the person at the top
A confidential sounding board for the CEO or MD: structure, people and the decisions that are hard to test inside the business.
Sales and growth, led
From the value proposition down: sharpening what you sell, who it’s for and why you win, then sales leadership delivered through your people, not around them.
The player-coach difference
Most advisers stay on the sideline. This role is held by someone who has run businesses (P&L, sales, operations) and change is done with your team, not around them.
Your team gets built while the job gets done
Coaching is part of the role, not a separate service, developing the managers who will own the change when we step back.
The goal is to become less necessary
The honest fear about fractional anything is dependency. Our answer is structural: building your capability is the job from day one.
The shape, and the maths
A full-time senior hire
- Six-figure salary, plus package
- Recruitment cost and risk
- Notice periods if it goes wrong
This role
- Two days a month, from £1,850 a month
- Senior from day one, no ramp-up
- Scale up or down; stop any month
- Capability transferred to your team as you go
Where this has worked
Current and recent roles, and what the player-coach model looks like in practice.
Engineering business
Sales player-coach
Sales leadership delivered through the sales manager, coaching them towards the sales director role rather than occupying it.
Public-sector partnership
CEO coaching
An engagement that began with digital direction, where the most valued work became coaching the CEO on structure, people and strategy.
Client feedback
Working with Damian has been really positive. Lots of discussion and some very healthy challenge has helped us refine our thinking and develop the business.
Lisa GallagherDirector and Co-founder - Flexibility WorksDamian’s expert interrogation of our business created the framework to simplify our model, which has translated into a more streamlined, efficient approach to our operations. Whilst working together, Damian facilitated a slick One Page Strategy that has supported our team’s mission alignment and clarity.
Abigail Neate-WilsonManaging Director - Agile CityProject in mind? Questions to ask?
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