Fractional, interim and project-based operating leadership for founders, executives and principals. We take responsibility for planning, reporting, operating systems and work that needs to move across teams.
Every decision, meeting, and follow-up runs through one person, and the important work waits.
The team, the tools, and the reporting were built for an earlier stage.
The work is needed now; the permanent seat is not yet clear, or not yet right.
Principals, advisors, and entities that have grown without a shared way of working.
Part of the week, every week. Alongside the founder or principal, inside the decisions and the day-to-day.
Ownership of how the business runs through a transition, a leadership gap, or the move to its next stage.
A specific build with a clear finish line.
Fractional, interim or project-based — scoped to the role and the outcome, not the hour.
In the meetings, the workflows, and the follow-up — not advising from a distance or delivering a deck.
Define how the work should run, decide who should own it, then choose the software. In that order.
Everything is documented. When a permanent operating leader makes sense, we help define the role and hand it over cleanly.
Operating leadership, and the systems behind it: workspaces, websites and workflows, scoped as defined projects and handed over documented.
Ongoing or interim operating leadership, inside the decisions and the day-to-day.
Reporting, workflows and operating systems, delivered to a clear finish line.
Branded workspaces, shared inboxes, intake and trackers on Microsoft 365.
Business email, shared files and access, organized around how the team works.
Brand-led websites connected to the intake and operations behind them.
The operating foundation for a new Hell's Kitchen barbershop.
A business publication with a repeatable publishing system.
A clear starting point for an emerging media brand.
A product-first digital experience that makes deer antler velvet spray easier to understand, evaluate and use.
WDA Careers, our executive search practice, recruits Chiefs of Staff, business operations and executive operations professionals for permanent roles. Start with the responsibilities the person needs to own, whether or not you need operating support from WDA.
Project Proprietor publishes articles and essays on ownership, leadership and the work of running a business, informed by firsthand operating experience.
Tell us where the business is, and where you need it to be. We typically respond within one business day.
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