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Fractional Executive Services

Operational discipline for businesses scaling in regulated, mission-critical markets.

Growth pressure without governed execution breaks companies. We help CEOs and founders convert momentum into repeatable operating machinery — as your fractional COO or fractional CIO, embedded weekly, without the full-time executive price tag.

8→74
employee growth supported in under 5 months
$15M
mission contract execution supported
$500M+
annual enterprise portfolio led
20+
material audit findings closed
Fractional COO

The operating partner your growth demands.

This is not generic COO coaching. It is scale-up operating discipline from a sitting operations executive at a fast-scaling GovCon small business — someone doing this work today, with enterprise-grade governance experience behind it.

Fractional COO serviceWhat you get
Operating Cadence & Governance Weekly/monthly business reviews, KPI dashboards, escalation paths, decision logs, and operating rhythms that make strategy executable.
Scale-Up People Systems Modernized recruiting, onboarding, HRIS, role clarity, performance management, and retention for small businesses moving fast.
Contract Delivery & Customer Success Stabilized SOW/SLA execution, program reviews, CPARS readiness, corrective actions, and partner/vendor coordination that builds customer confidence.
Finance, Margin & Resource Discipline Priorities translated into staffing plans, budgets, forecasts, proposal cost inputs, and margin-minded operating choices.
Risk, Compliance & Audit Readiness Practical controls for FAR/DFARS, NIST/CMMC/RMF, security readiness, audit evidence, and leadership reporting.
Fractional CIO

Technology leadership without the full-time hire.

Led by a former Pentagon Deputy CIO who held investment, modernization, and governance authority over a $500M+ portfolio of 170+ systems.

IT Strategy & Modernization Roadmap

A pragmatic technology roadmap tied to your growth plan — what to build, buy, consolidate, and sunset.

Stack & Vendor Rationalization

Cut tool sprawl and trapped spend. Negotiate from a position of knowledge with vendors and integrators.

Security & Compliance Readiness

Right-sized controls aligned to NIST, CMMC, and customer flow-downs — strong enough to pass, light enough to live with.

AI Governance & Decision Velocity

Adopt AI with command-and-control discipline — governed agents, human-in-the-loop design, algorithmic accountability — plus dashboards that compress decisions from weeks to real time.

Engagement model

Start small. Prove value. Scale the partnership.

Operating Reality Audit

A fixed-fee diagnostic opening with the Operating Snapshot: cadence, org structure, contract delivery, people systems, risk controls, and CEO decision flow. You get the Operating Reality Report — a prioritized build plan, yours to keep either way.

Adoption Sprint

Install the first, highest-leverage discipline from your roadmap — KPI rhythm, escalation paths, ownership models, delegation — and prove it sticks when no one is watching.

Fractional Retainer

Ongoing part-time operating leadership installing the rest of your roadmap — one adopted piece at a time, built to hand off, never to stay.

Ideal client

Is this you?

Request the Fractional COO capability statement

Proof in the field

Operating discipline, in practice

Fractional COO · Operating Model

Rebuilding a 120-person operating model

Challenge
A 120-person division had churned through repeated reorganizations, over-relied on contractors, and lacked clear roles — under constant operational pressure.
Approach
Shannon built trust first, through dozens of one-on-ones. Together the team distilled the mission to a single sentence, restructured around it, and stood up a jointly-staffed operations cell to absorb the daily firefighting.
Result
Within a year, delivery and audit-readiness improved, relationships strengthened, and morale and mentorship rose — a cadence the teams owned, one that outlasted any single reorg.

Growth is the plan. Let’s build the machine that delivers it.

A fit check will tell you whether a fractional COO or CIO is the right next hire — and whether we’re the right fit.

Start with a fit check