Fractional leadership

Experienced leadership, with a scope that fits.

Help departments, locations, or teams operate as one enterprise while keeping decisions close to the work. Add part-time executive capacity to establish shared priorities, clear authority, and sustained follow-through.

This can include cross-functional operating leadership, board and executive coordination, people systems, risk priorities, and follow-through during change. Responsibilities, decision authority, time commitment, and measures of progress are agreed together before work begins.

For an outside thought partner while you retain decision ownership, explore advisory support below.

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Advise & Strengthen

Organizational Consulting · Advisory Engagements

Resolve the friction between teams: decisions that keep escalating, unclear ownership, and unreliable processes. Together, we build operating agreements that respect local judgment and make shared work more reliable.

This may fit when

  • The challenge is bigger than one workshop.
  • Patterns keep recurring.
  • Leaders need thought partnership.
  • Multiple parts of the organization are involved.
  • The organization needs help moving from insight to implementation.

Areas of support: Decision Rights · Board & Executive Partnership · Risk Management · Competency Development · Employee Lifecycle · Organizational Alignment

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Learn & Develop

Workshops · Trainings · Cohorts · Coaching

Executive coaching is direct, individual work with Janelle on leadership decisions, transitions, and growth. Leadership development helps individuals and teams build judgment, confidence, and practical skills through workshops, practice, and ongoing support.

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This may fit when

  • You want to strengthen leadership capability.
  • A focused training would help.
  • People need practice, not just information.
  • Development needs to happen over time.
  • Individual coaching would add value.

Examples: Burnout Workshops: Recognition, Relief, and Recovery · Think Like a Controller · Leadership Development Series · Emerging & Expanding Leader Cohorts · Decision Rights & Accountability · Executive Coaching · Individual Leadership Coaching

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Janelle facilitating a burnout and recovery session
Facilitation in practice: a burnout and recovery session.

Gather & Work Together

Speaking · Retreats · Group Facilitation

For groups that need protected space to think, decide, reset, reconnect, or work through something together.

This may fit when

  • A team needs more than another meeting.
  • Leaders need to make important decisions together.
  • A group is navigating change, strain, or transition.
  • People need space to reflect and reset.
  • The organization wants a customized retreat or facilitated experience.

Examples: Leadership, Staff & Group Retreats · The Meadow · The Canopy · Leadership Team Facilitation · Cross-Functional Facilitation

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Examples of custom workshop topics

Start with the question your group needs to work through. Custom workshops can draw on The Long Chew, We Set the Table and One Table, Two Perspectives, with examples and practice shaped around your audience and goals.

Boundaries That Can Hold

Identify the practical support a boundary requires.

Continue with The Long Chew and One Table, Two Perspectives.

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Care That Becomes Practical Support

Make specific offers while leaving room for choice.

Continue with One Table, Two Perspectives and The Long Chew.

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From Values to Operating Decisions

Turn principles into decision rules.

Continue with We Set the Table and One Table, Two Perspectives.

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What the Organization Cannot See

Examine hidden work and operating records.

Continue with We Set the Table.

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A Meeting That Ends with a Response

Leave with a decision, owner and recheck.

Continue with One Table, Two Perspectives and We Set the Table.

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Burnout as a Board Condition

Examine questions about organizational conditions and oversight.

Continue with We Set the Table.

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The First Ninety Days of Follow-Through

Plan implementation and scheduled rechecks.

Continue with We Set the Table and One Table, Two Perspectives.

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These are sample offerings; topics, formats, and availability may change. Purpose, participant materials, scope, and terms are agreed before an engagement begins.

Tell us about your audience, the question or condition you want to address, and your timing. You do not need to choose a workshop title before reaching out.

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Not sure which format fits?

Let’s identify the right support together.

Tell us what you’re trying to accomplish, and we’ll help determine the right way to work together.

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