Primarily organizations and senior leaders. We work with executives, boards, and leadership teams who are responsible for outcomes in complex environments. Individual leaders sometimes engage us for executive advisory support, but our core work focuses on organizational-level challenges.

Start with a consultation call to confirm fit and discuss your specific situation.

The Organizational Assessment is where most engagements start. It's a scoped diagnostic that identifies what's actually broken and produces a clear roadmap for fixing it.

Fractional Operational Effectiveness Advisory is ongoing embedded work. I'm in the room with your leadership team on a fractional basis, building the operating model, decision-rights structure, and leadership infrastructure your organization needs.

Organizational Change Advisory is project-based support scoped around a specific moment. Defined scope, defined timeline, defined outcome.

Choose Fractional Leadership if you:

• Need ongoing executive-level leadership but don't have the budget or workload for a full-time hire

• Are building or stabilizing operations and need someone to own the execution

• Have multiple interconnected challenges that need sustained attention

• Want senior-level ownership, not just recommendations

Choose Advisory if you:

• Have a specific, defined problem (e.g., broken month-end close, unclear cost structure)

• Want a clear project with deliverables and an end date

• Need speed and structure more than ongoing ownership

• Have internal capacity to implement but need expert guidance and frameworks

Fractional executive engagements (CFO, COO, or operations leadership) typically range from $8,000 to $18,000 per month, depending on scope, complexity, and time commitment.

Factors that influence pricing:

• Organization size and complexity

• Scope of responsibilities (single function vs. multiple areas)

• Time commitment (1-3 days per week)

• Regulatory or compliance requirements

Most fractional engagements require a minimum 3-6 month commitment to allow sufficient time for meaningful results.

The initial consultation is a focused 30-45 minute diagnostic conversation, not a free consulting session. The purpose is to:

• Identify the primary operational or financial bottleneck

• Clarify the outcome you need in the next 45-90 days

• Determine whether fractional leadership, consulting, or advisory is the best fit

• Confirm timeline and next steps if there's mutual fit

This call helps both of us determine if working together makes sense. There's no pressure or obligation to move forward.

It depends on urgency and scope. For consulting projects, we can typically start within 1-2 weeks of finalizing scope and contracting. For fractional leadership engagements, onboarding usually takes 2-3 weeks.

If you're dealing with a critical issue (audit findings, compliance deadline, financial crisis), we prioritize urgent situations and can often accommodate accelerated timelines.

Success is defined at the start of every engagement and tied to observable, measurable outcomes. Success is defined at the start of every engagement tied to observable outcomes. Examples include decision-making speed improved with clear ownership at each level, leadership transition completed without operational disruption, operating model redesigned and adopted by the leadership team, and the same conversations stopped happening.

We review progress regularly and adjust as needed to ensure we're delivering meaningful results, not just activity.

Most engagements are conducted remotely with periodic on-site visits as needed. For fractional leadership roles, we typically recommend monthly or quarterly on-site time for team connection and strategic planning.

For consulting projects, on-site time is usually concentrated at the beginning (kickoff and discovery) and end (delivery and training) of the engagement.

If your situation requires more frequent on-site presence, we can accommodate that in the engagement design and pricing.

We work nationally with organizations across the United States. Most of our work can be conducted effectively remotely, with strategic on-site visits as needed.

We are based in the Mid-Atlantic region and have particular depth working with organizations in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area, but we regularly support clients across the country.

Mid-size organizations navigating growth, leadership transitions, or restructuring. That includes utilities, regulated industries, associations, and private sector organizations between roughly 200 and 2,000 employees.

We're particularly effective when compliance, accountability, and public trust are critical success factors.

For Fractional Leadership: Weekly or bi-weekly depending on the engagement model. This typically includes leadership team meetings, functional team check-ins, and 1-on-1s with key stakeholders.

For Consulting Projects: Weekly status updates with project sponsors, plus working sessions with relevant teams as needed.

For Executive Advisory: Monthly strategy sessions (1-2 hours), plus on-call availability for urgent questions or document review.

Three things set us apart:

Three things.

I find the root cause, not just the symptoms. Most organizations have already identified the symptoms by the time they call me. The work is finding what's actually underneath them.

I build, I don't just advise. The engagement doesn't end with a report. It ends when the operating model, the decision-rights structure, or the leadership infrastructure is actually in place and working.

I've been inside organizations at this scale. Twenty years managing workforce restructuring, leadership transitions, and operational change inside large, complex organizations. That's not the same as studying it from the outside.

We do not work with direct competitors simultaneously if it creates a conflict of interest or raises concerns about confidential information. This is discussed and agreed upon during the contracting process.

However, we may work with multiple organizations in the same industry (e.g., professional services firms, ) if there's no competitive overlap or conflict.

If there's mutual fit, we'll:

1. Provide a proposal outlining scope, deliverables, timeline, and investment

2. Review and refine the proposal based on your feedback

3. Finalize contracting and engagement terms

4. Schedule kickoff and onboarding

If there's not a fit or if the timing isn't right, we'll be direct about that and can suggest alternative resources or approaches.

Schedule a consultation call on our Contact page or email admin@anchorpointrising.com.

Schedule a scoping conversation on the Contact page or email admin@anchorpointrising.com. Come ready to talk about the primary challenge you're facing, what success looks like in the next 45-90 days, and who else in your organization needs to be part of the decision.