Consulting & fractional leadership

You have traction. Build a business that can scale it.

Your business has grown. The way it operates may need to catch up. I help founders and leadership teams identify what is holding growth back, decide what needs to change, and lead the work to move forward.

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Who I work with

The business has momentum. The next stage needs more direction.

I work with founders and leadership teams whose businesses have grown more complex, but whose priorities, structure, and ways of working have not kept pace. This can include Series A and B technology companies, expanding businesses, and teams commercializing a new offer.

You might recognize your business here:

You have customers and traction, but growth is harder to repeat than you expected.
Products, features, and packages have multiplied and it is harder to explain what you sell and who it is for.
Product, sales, and marketing are working hard toward different priorities.
Too many decisions and day-to-day problems still land with the founder.
You see several opportunities, but need to decide where to invest, what to simplify, and what to stop.

The decisions I help you make

Decide what deserves your attention and what needs to change.

Growth can stall for several connected reasons. I look across your customers, offers, commercial approach, and operations to understand where progress is breaking down.

Focus the offer

Which products, packages, and customer needs should drive the next stage? What should you simplify, combine, or stop?

Choose where to grow

Which customers, markets, and revenue opportunities deserve investment and what needs to be true for them to succeed?

Connect the teams

Where are conflicting priorities, unclear responsibilities, or slow decisions getting in the way?

Create capacity to lead

What should stay with the founder or leadership team, and what should others be equipped to own?

Together, we turn those decisions into priorities, responsibilities, and work the team can move forward.

See the business impact this work can support

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Experience behind the work

Experience building the business and leading the work.

My experience spans founding-team work, executive growth leadership, commercialization, and acquisition integration. I have worked across customer needs, positioning, product, partnerships, and revenue where business decisions depend on understanding how the pieces connect.

Building and commercializing: Founding-team experience helping build an emerging technology business, shape its offer, and bring it to market.
Leading across functions: Growth leadership connecting customer insight, commercial priorities, product decisions, and execution.
Working through change: Experience supporting a business through growth, acquisition, and integration as priorities and responsibilities evolve.

More about my background

What it’s like to work with me

TESTIMONIAL

“Elizabeth helped us see why the business felt harder to run as it grew. She brought focus to our priorities, helped us rethink who owned what, and gave me room to lead instead of being involved in every decision.”

Josh V
Founder | Series B | AI Startup

TESTIMONIAL

“Elizabeth could see the connections between our product, commercial approach, and how the team was operating. She helped us make the decisions we had been circling and turn them into work people could actually own.”

Sarah G
Chief Operating Officer | Consumer Packaged Goods

Ways to work together

The right level of support for the work ahead.

You do not need to know which engagement you need before we talk. We will start with your business challenge and determine the right scope together.

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Fractional Executive Leadership

For businesses that need experienced leadership to own an agreed set of priorities and help the team deliver.

The role and scope are defined around the business need, including fractional growth or marketing leadership and broader strategic mandates where appropriate.

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What I can take responsibility for

Setting priorities and translating them into an actionable plan.
Coordinating work across the teams involved.
Establishing clear ownership and decision-making.
Leading agreed growth, commercialization, or strategic initiatives.
Reviewing progress with leadership and adjusting as the business learns.

Business Growth Diagnostic

Best when: You know the business is getting stuck, but need to understand why.
The work: Leadership conversations and a focused review of relevant customer, commercial, and operating information.
What you leave with: An assessment of the main constraints, recommended priorities, and a practical next-step plan.

Strategy & Implementation Sprint

Best when: You have a defined challenge that needs focused attention and follow-through.
The work: A scoped project addressing areas such as positioning, pricing and packaging, commercialization, or team coordination.
What you leave with: Decisions, agreed deliverables, clear ownership, and implementation support within the project scope.

Team Workshops

Best when: A team needs to work through a challenge and make decisions together.
The work: A facilitated session built around a specific business question and the people who need to resolve it.
What you leave with: Documented decisions, priorities, owners, and next steps.

Let’s discuss your business

How the work starts

Understand the business. Agree on the work. Move it forward.

The depth of the work depends on the engagement. The starting point is understanding what is happening before deciding what to change.

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01
See
Hear from the relevant people and review the information that helps explain your customers, offer, performance, and ways of working.
02
Prioritize
Identify the most important constraints and opportunities, and agree on what to address first.
03
Connect
Bring the right people together around the decisions, responsibilities, and dependencies.
04
Act
Turn priorities into a working plan and lead or support execution within the agreed scope.
05
Scale
For ongoing engagements, establish ways to review progress, adapt, and give the team more capacity to sustain the work.

What is getting harder as your business grows?

Tell me what you are seeing, what you have tried, and where you need support. We will discuss whether I am the right fit and what a useful starting point could look like.