Most fractional IT directors focus on technology strategy. I focus on technology leadership — helping you build the people, processes, and culture that make your strategy succeed.
Get In TouchYou've hired consultants to build your technology roadmap. It looked great on paper. But six months later, you're behind schedule, over budget, and your team is burning out.
The problem isn't the strategy. It's that no-one taught your technical leaders how to lead through change, build high-performing teams, or navigate the human complexities of technology transformation.
Technology strategy is easy. Technology leadership is hard.
I combine 20 years of technology leadership with expertise in leadership development to deliver both strategic direction and the leadership capacity to execute it.
Technology roadmaps, architecture decisions, vendor management, and all the strategic IT leadership you'd expect from a seasoned CTO or IT Director.
Coaching your technical leaders to develop the people skills, emotional intelligence, and leadership presence needed to inspire and guide their teams.
Creating the psychological safety, collaboration practices, and team dynamics that turn good technical teams into exceptional ones.
This approach works best for scale-up and growth-stage companies (typically £5M–£50M revenue) where:
Technology is critical to your business model, but you're not quite ready for a full-time CTO or IT Director
You have technical leaders who are brilliant engineers but struggling with the people and leadership aspects of their role
Your technology initiatives keep stalling due to team dynamics, communication breakdowns, or change resistance
You want strategic IT guidance that doesn't just create PowerPoints but actually builds the capacity to execute
You recognize that your technology challenges are as much about people and culture as they are about architecture and tools
Typically 2–4 days per month, structured to meet your needs. Some clients need strategic board-level input. Others need hands-on team development. Most need both.
Every engagement balances strategic IT direction with leadership development — ensuring you get both the plan and the capability to execute it.
I've spent 20 years in technology leadership roles, navigating the successes, failures, and messy human realities of building and leading technical teams.
Along the way, I created the Leadership 3.0 framework — a human-centric approach to technology leadership that prioritizes people alongside delivery.
Today, I work with scale-up companies as a Fractional IT Director and co-host fortnightly leadership development sessions for technology leaders at The Curious Mindset, supporting CTOs, Engineering Managers, and technical leaders at all levels of seniority.
I believe the best technology strategies are built on strong leadership foundations.
Interested in exploring how fractional IT direction combined with leadership development could help your scale-up? Let's start a conversation.
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