Struggling with scaling? Wrestling with workload? Need to smarten up your strategy, management and client delivery leadership?
Working with a fractional CDO rapidly frees up founders from client delivery to focus on healthy growth, to build toward your vision, and fulfil your passion for the business you're building.
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Working with me as your fractional CDO
How I work as a fractional CDO
As a founder–owner or CEO you'll be familiar with the start-up phase and the all hands on deck energy it needs.
But things change as your business grows, and each phase of growth makes new demands on you:
- when you step up to be the leader of your business
(10–30 people, roughly) - when the business has to smarten up, and you become the leader of the leadership team
(30–75 people) - when you're scaling up the business into maturity, where it can stand on its own
(75+ people)
There's constant challenges that are constantly changing as the business changes constantly. You may well feel like you're struggling to keep your head above water, that there's always fires you're fighting, that you get worryingly close to burning out.
Or you may find that the way you used to run the business doesn't work now that you've grown, those old rules of thumb don't fit any more.
Most significantly, you may find that customer work becomes problematic as it gets bigger, becomes harder to deliver on time without demanding all your focus or burning out your team, even begins to feel stressful, chaotic and out of control.
Bringing in a fractional Chief Delivery Officer (CDO) will help you overcome scaling challenges without the cost and commitment of a full-time hire.
The right fractional CDO will give you the combination of strategic insight and deep hands-on customer delivery expertise that you need as you scale your business.
Working with me as your fractional Chief Delivery Officer #
I am a highly accomplished technical delivery leadership expert, with extensive experience in technical project delivery and professional services for ambitious creative and digital agencies, SaaS product businesses, and UK central government digital transformation. I have a strong record of delivering successful digital projects at scale.
I've worked in Agile delivery contexts for 20 years, using all the Agile project management tools, with most significant part of my delivery experience formed by the UK Government Delivery Service (GDS) Agile delivery framework.
I'm passionate about building engaged, motivated and inclusive cross-functional teams of experts, working hard to lift teams to high performance.
Contact me to discuss my fractional CDO service
How I work as a fractional CDO #
I work part-time in your leadership team as Chief Delivery Officer. As a fractional CDO I lead delivery teams, represent your business to your clients, and am fully embedded within your company.
You, your leadership team and investors get:
- Hands-on, high leverage and experienced senior leadership
- Equivalent of one, two or three days per week working hands-on within your team as your CDO
- Extensive resources, clear processes, embedded practices, and delivery toolkits tailored to your specific context
- Unlimited 1:1 access to me via Slack, email & phone