Origin Stories
How fractional leaders got started and what shaped them
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Trust is critical, and you get nowhere with a client or a business without kind of earning that trust. One of the best examples of building that trust would be one of my most recent clients — a brewer...
— Brennan Sweeney
Ford Knowlton responds
Okay, so, uh, trust is, is really the operating system for fractional work. It is how this business accomplishes anything it does. When you think about an executive-level person coming into a company ...
— Ford Knowlton
Amy Sheehy responds
A moment I saw trust change the outcome of a project was a time I was working in a discipline that I had to learn. It was work I had never done before, and I was working with this team to help them ma...
— Amy Sheehy
Christine Bell responds
“When you do what you say you're going to do, that builds accountability. But it's also building trust.”
— Christine Bell, Fractional Integrator
Amy Sheehy responds
A challenge that I had early in my career that was very difficult is that I was female in a manufacturing site. I wasn't from that town. I was a manager. Most of my employees hated me, and I needed to...
— Amy Sheehy
“Most of my employees hated me, and I needed to demonstrate what my intentions were over time to earn trust. I did it in some cases by doing the work that no one else wanted to do. I helped carry tools. I held flashlights.”
— Amy Sheehy, Fractional Operations
Meredith Arlinghaus responds
As a fractional accounting professional, a lot of what we do is getting into the weeds of a business owner's financials. And part of that is a huge element of trust on their behalf. They have to trust...
— Meredith Arlinghaus
Brennan Sweeney responds
“It was kind of the passing on the initial work because I wasn't the right fit. But then that company kind of grew to where I was the right fit. And I think they remembered that trust.”
— Brennan Sweeney, Fractional CFO
Will Phillips responds
I've not really ever in my career, I think, I mean, I could always be wrong, but ran into issues, like situations where there was no vulnerability. Generally, it's like you're peeling back the onion i...
— Will Phillips