Fractional leadership
Ongoing senior ownership for a defined number of days each month or week.
SHARP PARTNER
Senior strategic firepower, when and where it matters.
Ongoing senior support for businesses that need more than external advice. Sharp Partner steps into the organisation to lead a programme, strengthen a leadership team, bridge a temporary gap or turn ambition into delivery.
TYPICAL SITUATIONS
Where ongoing senior ownership makes the difference.
- Fractional marketing or innovation leadership
- Interim leadership and maternity cover
- Brand, portfolio or marketing transformation
- Major launches and strategic programmes
- Team, capability or agency resets
- Cross-functional alignment and delivery
WAYS TO ENGAGE
Three formats, one principle: senior ownership, integrated quickly.
Interim leadership
Embedded leadership during a transition, vacancy, maternity leave or high-intensity business period.
Strategic programme leadership
Ownership of a major transformation, innovation, portfolio, launch or operating-model agenda.
WHAT I CAN OWN
Not an adviser waiting outside the room.
Sharp Partner is built to hold the work, not narrate it. The remit is defined together at the start of every mandate.
- Strategic direction and prioritisation
- Leadership-team alignment
- Team management and development
- Agency and partner leadership
- Cross-functional decision-making
- Business cases and governance
- Portfolio and launch delivery
- Operating models and ways of working
- Senior stakeholder communication
- Building momentum while permanent structures are developed
FIRST PHASE
What happens at the beginning of a mandate.
- 01Understand the business, priorities and decision landscape
- 02Identify immediate risks and blockers
- 03Clarify the mandate and outcomes
- 04Establish stakeholder and team alignment
- 05Create a practical action plan
- 06Begin leading the highest-priority work
FORMAT
Need experienced ownership before the work loses momentum?
Every mandate is defined around an agreed priority, outcome, level of involvement and duration. I reply personally within one working day.
Format: Defined monthly partnership or interim mandate.