Fractional Chief Strategy Officer
“You need a strategy executive in the room every month, not a consultant who shows up twice a year.”
What people usually say
Most organizations of your size cannot justify a full-time Chief Strategy Officer. Many of them still need one.
A fractional arrangement puts a strategy executive inside your operating rhythm: in the leadership meeting, in the board packet, in the room when the capital question comes up. Two to six days a month, on a standing engagement.
What the role covers
- Owning the strategic plan as a living document, not an annual event
- Preparing and facilitating board study sessions and committee work
- Pressure-testing major capital, partnership, and repositioning proposals before they reach the board
- Market and competitive intelligence your team does not have time to maintain
- Coaching internal leaders who are being asked to think strategically for the first time
- Sitting between operations and finance when the two are talking past each other
Why it works
The value of a strategy function is mostly in continuity. Someone has to remember what was decided, notice when the assumptions behind it stop holding, and raise it before it becomes a crisis. That is hard to buy in project form.
Structure
Standing monthly engagement, typically a twelve-month initial term with a ninety-day out for both sides. Scope and days are set at the start and revisited quarterly.
Is this the right fit?
The fastest way to find out is a short conversation. No deck, no discovery fee. Send a note or email eric@ericmineart.com.