What is Fractional Leadership and Why Does It Matter Now?

The nonprofit workforce is changing daily driven by a #2025FundingCrisis. With massive layoffs, furloughs and survivors’ guilt defining the moment we need a workforce strategy that emphasizes:

1. Cost effectiveness, freeing up significant unrestricted funding to survive.

2. Staff retention, protecting mission and service delivery workers.

3. Flexibility, scale up or down based on needs during great financial uncertainty.

Have you considered the value of #fractionalexecutives as part of the solution?

Fractional may be the leadership model for our moment. And while not new this leadership approach may be just the right medicine for our nonprofit ills.

What is a Fractional Leader?

A fractional executive is a seasoned professional who serves in a top leadership role, such as Chief Operating Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Impact Officer or Chief Technology Officer, on a part-time or temporary basis. They typically provide expertise to multiple organizations at the same time and, most importantly, they provide strategic guidance and high-level management without the need for a full-time hire.

Credit: Fractional Leadership Alliance

Why Fractional Leadership for the Nonprofit and Social Impact Sector?

As CEOs and Boards navigate an incredibly challenging time that threatens our ability to deliver core services, fractional leadership has the potential to maximize the total value of your nonprofit workforce. There are three important parts to the fractional leadership value equation:

1. Part-time, on demand executives reduce complexity.

2. Modern nonprofit executives help you reduce risk, especially data and security and support your work in a the Digital Age.

3. And, with fewer, skilled fractional executives working within multiple organizations, the nonprofit sector has #orchestraconductors positioned to lead transformational change.

Fractional leaders are uniquely prepared to lead during periods of organizational instability and shifts in how we operate. We come as trusted advisors to the CEO ready to quickly assess, decide and implement needed changes; we modernize your people, processes and tools and then we move on.

How is Fractional Leadership Different?

A fractional is a part-time fully embedded leader. The only difference between a fractional, and their

full-time counterpart, is that they are part-time. Fractional leaders are part of your leadership team and can manage team members, budgets and represent the organization.

Credit: Fractionals United

Are you interested in hiring a Fractional Leader to orchestrate changes in your organization? Reach out for a free 30-minute consultation!