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Services · Fractional COO · Atlanta, GA

Fractional COO & strategy-execution consulting.

Most organizations don't have a strategy problem. They have an execution problem.

I help executive leadership teams in operationally complex organizations close the gap between strategy and execution. The breakdown is rarely in the strategy — it's in the alignment across strategy, operations, workforce performance, leadership behavior, and customer experience.

When that alignment breaks, the problem isn't isolated — it's systemic. Based in Atlanta, GA, serving the Southeast and companies nationwide.
For executive leaders in operationally complex organizations · $5M–$250M · 50–500 people · multi-site · Atlanta, GA · Southeast · nationwide
How it shows up

You can feel it before the P&L shows it.

The breakdown is systemic, not isolated. These are the signals leaders notice first — tap each one that's true on your team.

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Most leadership teams recognize at least two.
Who this is for

Executive leaders responsible for organizational performance.

The work fits a specific profile — leaders who own outcomes across an organization complex enough that strategy and execution have started to drift apart.

Organization profile
50–500
Employees — core focus
500–5K
Select engagements
$5M–250M
Annual revenue
Multi-site
Operationally complex
Typical titles
CEO
COO
President
Executive Director
VP of Operations
VP of HR
Chief People Officer / CHRO
Chief of Staff
Industries
Hospitality Property management Healthcare Professional services Technology Manufacturing Financial services
What I do

I find and fix the breakdowns between strategy and execution.

Not where they appear to be — where they actually live. That means diagnosing where strategy stops translating into operational execution, and rebuilding the systems that carry it.

Five places the breakdown hides — tap to expand ↓

01 Where leadership expectations and daily work have separated. +

The plan on the deck and the work on the floor stop matching — and no one flags the drift.

02 How roles, accountability, and decision-making actually function. +

Decisions stall, or get remade three times by three people who each thought they owned it.

03 Whether training, onboarding, and development show up as changed behavior. +

You invest in development, and nothing downstream actually moves.

04 How consistent execution is across teams and locations. +

One site nails it, the next can't — and no one can say why.

05 Whether leadership behavior reinforces — or erodes — the strategy. +

What leaders quietly tolerate overrides whatever they declared in the offsite.

The goal: make sure the organization performs the way leadership believes it is designed to perform.

The engagements

Five ways to close the gap.

Each one targets a different layer of the breakdown — run on their own or sequenced together. Select one to explore.

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Organizational Diagnostics & Culture Audits

Identify where strategy, operations, workforce performance, leadership behavior, and customer experience have separated.

The flagship engagement

The Rebuild

When the gap is structural and you need it closed — not advised on — The Rebuild is the deep fractional-COO engagement. It redesigns the operating model the strategy is supposed to run inside, and stays until the change holds. Two tracks, run on their own or together:

Track 01 · Operations

Rebuild the engine room — workflows, roles, decision rights, and the operating model that should have absorbed your technology but didn't.

Track 02 · Customer Value & Service

Rebuild revenue retention — the customer-facing operating model, so the value you promised actually reaches the customer.

How we work together

One shape. Diagnostic first, then the work.

01

Organizational Diagnostic

Find where the breakdowns exist between strategy, operations, workforce systems, and leadership behavior. A scored read with named gaps and a prioritized sequence.

02

Alignment & System Design

Redesign the systems that drive execution — roles, accountability, decision-making, and operational flow.

03

Execution Support

Work alongside the leadership team so the changes hold in real operations and produce measurable improvement.

The gate

The Diagnostic is the gate. If it doesn't surface a fixable gap, that's where it ends — you pay only the Diagnostic fee and sign nothing further.

What the Diagnostic delivers
A scored read — not a slide deck.
Operations78
Workforce performance71
Leadership behavior55
Named gaps, ranked by what's costing you most
A prioritized 90-day sequence to close them
A clear go / no-go on whether it's my work to do
What changes

Performance becomes repeatable instead of reactive.

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Common questions

Questions leaders ask first.

What does a fractional COO do? +

A fractional COO provides senior operational leadership on a part-time, embedded basis — owning execution, decision rights, and operating rhythm without the cost of a full-time hire. I redesign how work actually flows, and stay until the change holds.

Fractional COO vs. operations consultant — what's the difference? +

A consultant hands you a recommendation; a fractional COO owns the execution. I diagnose where strategy and operations have separated, redesign the operating model, and stay embedded with your leadership team until the change is real.

When does a company need a fractional COO? +

Usually when you've outgrown your original operating model: growth feels harder than it should, execution is inconsistent across teams or locations, and the technology or strategy you invested in isn't producing the result it promised.

What is the Theory Reality Gap? +

The distance between what your strategy intends and what your organization is actually built to deliver. It's where margin, customers, and talent quietly leak — and it's what I measure before I touch anything.

What industries do you work with? +

Operationally complex, often multi-site organizations: hospitality, property management, healthcare, professional services, technology, manufacturing, and financial services.

Do you work with companies outside Atlanta, GA? +

Yes. I'm based in Atlanta, GA and work with companies across the Southeast and nationwide, including remote and multi-site organizations.

Start here

Find where your gap is — before it costs you more.

You'll leave knowing where your biggest gap is — whether or not we work together. 60 minutes. No cost. No pitch.

"Most organizations don't have a strategy problem. They have an execution problem. When the systems align, performance becomes repeatable. That's the work."

— Searcie Cassidine · Fractional COO