Consulting for Organizations

Consulting for C-Suite leaders engaged in disruptive change initiatives and transformation projects designed to optimize business outcomes and drive sustainable growth.

Fractional and Interim Leadership: Strategic Support When You Need It Most

Today’s business environment demands more from leadership teams than ever before focusing on the present while preparing for what’s next. Without the right leaders in place during critical moments of growth and transition, organizations lose momentum and struggle with fragmented strategies, stalled growth, and teams that lack clarity, focus, and the necessary resources to succeed and thrive.

Fractional and Interim Leadership is an excellent option to consider when you need strategic leadership, specialized expertise, and executive presence during critical periods without the commitment of a full-time executive and at a fraction of the cost.

Carolyn Hillegass provides fractional and interim leadership services to life sciences, professional services and healthcare organizations. She brings over 25 years of industry leadership experience, including sales, marketing, and P&L expertise, as well as coaching experience, to each engagement. Carolyn provides collaborative C-level leadership with hands-on execution when and where her clients need it most, without the long-term commitment or investment of a full-time executive, including: leadership transitions, executive leaves of absence, revenue growth and acceleration, capability building, mergers and acquisitions, transformation and change initiatives.

As a fractional or interim leader, Carolyn is embedded within your team, your daily operations and your culture, actively participating in strategic planning and managing and leading an existing team with accountability for business outcomes and team performance. She is adaptable and can build a new team to support a new organizational structure and capability, ensuring your unique needs are met.

Growth strategy workshop

We offer a unique solution for small and mid-size organizations navigating uncertainty, market volatility, engaged in a disruptive change initiative or transformation project. During these times, it’s critical to continue to invest in growth and sustainability. We collaborate with you to thoughtfully design a disruptive growth strategy that aligns to your unique needs, challenges the status quo, capitalizes on unique opportunities and delivers short- and long-term growth. Our methods are rooted in coaching, designed to foster collaboration throughout the organization. Our process yields powerful results that drive business outcomes, align strategy, talent and customer engagement to attain your business goals.

Workshop: Our approach begins with an initial business assessment, structured interviews, followed by a workshop, and integrates our proven approach with powerful leadership team engagement to achieve results. Together, we’ll explore your wildly important goals, prioritize levers for growth and anticipate risks and outcomes. From products, capabilities, technology, competitive positioning, brand identity, value proposition and customer profiles we explore mechanisms for growth including organic and inorganic and market development and partnerships.

Playbook: Following the workshop we deliver your customized go-to-market playbook that transforms workshop insights into actionable plans for growth. This is a living document that serves as your strategic compass, communication tool, and performance tracking system

Coaching: Because we believe you and your team hold the keys to your success and growth, we offer ongoing coaching to support your leadership team to help teams remain engaged, agile, and on track with the plans and goals while navigating day-to-day challenges and enhancing decision making.