Fractional COO
You may not need another strategy deck.
You may need someone to make it happen.
Selective Fractional COO and operating-advisor mandates with organizations that are ready to convert intent into measurable progress.
The engagement
A Fractional COO engagement is operating work, not advice delivered from the outside. I work inside the business with the CEO and the leadership team — establishing what matters, who owns it, how progress is seen, and what happens when it slips.
The first weeks are mostly listening and mapping: where decisions get made, where they stall, what the operating week actually looks like versus what the plan assumes. The work that follows is unglamorous and highly effective.
Engagements are scoped to the situation and the stage of the business. Availability is deliberately limited.
Ideal situations
Most mandates begin at a moment of strain.
Growth, transition or complexity has outpaced the way the organization currently runs.
- A founder-led company entering its next stage
- Execution has become inconsistent
- The leadership team lacks operating rhythm
- The company is between COO hires
- Acquisition integration
- Rapid change
- Operational complexity
- Strategic priorities are not translating into action
- AI or technology change requires operational implementation
What Bob helps create
A business that does what it said it would do.
- Clear priorities.
- Operating cadence.
- Accountability.
- Leadership alignment.
- Better information flow.
- Repeatable processes.
- Cross-functional execution.
- Momentum.
Engagement models
Scoped to the mandate, not to a package.
Fractional COO
Ongoing part-time operating leadership alongside the CEO and leadership team.
Operating Advisor
A lighter-touch mandate supporting the leadership team's execution and cadence.
Transformation Mandate
A defined scope of change: structure, process, systems or AI-enabled operations.
Interim Operating Leadership
Full-attention coverage through a transition, integration or leadership gap.
If you are weighing an operating mandate,
start with the situation, not the title.
Boards, investors, CEOs and search partners are welcome to reach out directly.
