Who this is for
Mid-size organizations and growing delivery teams hit the same wall: the programs have outgrown the PMs running them, but a full-time program director is a quarter-million-dollar commitment the org chart can't carry yet. So senior oversight gets improvised — a COO absorbing escalations, a lead PM stretched past their level — and delivery quietly degrades.
A fractional program director closes that gap. You get two decades of operational leadership — U.S. Army officer, founder/operator, Big Four transformation delivery — applied to your portfolio one to three days a week, fully remote.
What the engagement includes
- Operating cadence — a weekly rhythm of delivery reviews, risk burn-down, and decision forums that runs the same way every week.
- Executive reporting — one honest summary to leadership, not five conflicting decks.
- Stakeholder & vendor management — alignment held at the level where misalignment actually starts.
- Delivery team coaching — your PMs get better every week they run the cadence with me.
- Decision escalation — a clear path for the calls that can't wait for the next steering committee.
Same discipline as a full rescue engagement — RAID hygiene, scope control, truth-telling reporting — sized to a portfolio that needs governance, not heroics. And the goal is always a delivery organization that eventually doesn't need me.
Common questions
How is this different from hiring a consultant PM?
A staff-level PM runs a project. A fractional director runs the operating system the projects live inside — cadence, governance, reporting, escalation — and coaches your team to own it.
What does it cost?
A fraction of a full-time executive, scoped by days per week and portfolio complexity. Terms are shared on the intake call.