Fractional Chief Strategy Officer

Winning is a hell of a lot easier when you have a plan.

Summary

In today’s dynamic business landscape, a Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) is essential for companies seeking to achieve alignment, clarity, and long-term success. A CSO ensures that senior leadership is united around a cohesive strategy, transforming vision into actionable plans that drive competitive advantage. However, hiring a full-time CSO can be a significant financial investment, especially for small to mid-sized businesses. That’s where a fractional CSO becomes the ideal solution: high-level expertise on a flexible basis, helping you refine your strategy without the full-time commitment.

Image of a modern company boardroom featuring a polished table with laptops, notepads, pens, coffee cups, and printed charts in the foreground. In the blurred bokeh background, a diverse group of senior staff, including women and people of colour, are collaborating near a whiteboard with faint strategic diagrams. The atmosphere is professional and focused, with natural light streaming through large windows as you might expect at Six Catalysts.

Why Your Company Needs a CSO

Align Leadership and Priorities: A CSO unites senior leadership around a cohesive strategy, ensuring resources are effectively allocated to achieve business goals.
Strategic Clarity and Focus: Leveraging the Play to Win framework, a CSO helps define where to compete, how to win, and the necessary capabilities for success.
Prevent Fragmentation and Missed Opportunities: A CSO mitigates misaligned priorities and decision-making, driving growth through a clear, actionable strategic roadmap.

Why a Fractional CSO?

A fractional CSO helps your company establish a clear, winning strategy while fostering alignment among senior leadership—without the overhead of a full-time executive on payroll.

Cost-Effective Leadership: Access top-tier strategic expertise on a part-time basis, avoiding the financial burden of a full-time hire.
Tailored and Flexible Support: A fractional CSO adapts to your business’s unique needs, providing targeted guidance as your organization grows.
Strategic Alignment for Growth: Foster leadership alignment and refine your strategy to prepare for market changes and the next phase of business success.

Chart the Field

Capture key details of the supply chain environment and operations.

Define Success

Illuminate key goals and define our shared success metrics.

Create the Playbook

Develop our onboarding and resource plan.

Start Our Engines

Begin. Execute on the Playbook with urgency and precision.

Measure and Adapt

Measure our progress, adapt, and steer towards success.

Exit and Reflect

Define the sustainable post-CSO solution and recruit, train, or both.

A Bridge to Strategic Superiority

I approach each engagement as a bridge to your future—a temporary yet transformative collaboration that helps develop and build your strategy muscles as the company scales. We might work together for a month, we might work together for a year… you’re in the driver’s seat.

Start with Why
Begin with the End in Mind
Think Two Steps Ahead
Execute with Urgency

When we partner to work on the business, your best interests are my number one priority—even if they aren’t my best interests. If you’re tired of endless consultants just working to keep you on the hook, maybe it’s time to try something new.

Hi, I’m Paul.