The Fractional Founder: From Corporate Career to Autonomous Advisory Business (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798255198917)

The proven framework for turning decades of corporate experience into an autonomous advisory business.

The leaving drinks are over. The inbox has been redirected. The security pass is a useless piece of plastic on your kitchen counter. You have decades of expertise and no language to sell it.

Sound familiar?

The Fractional Founder is for senior executives who have left - or are leaving - corporate careers and want to build something better than another job. Not just a consultancy. Not just a side hustle. A real advisory business with multiple income streams, predictable pipeline, and the operational infrastructure to run without you being the bottleneck.

Inside, you will learn the LAUNCH framework - six stages from identity shift to tech-enabled scale:

L - Liberate. Shed the employee mindset. Become a founder.
A - Architect. Unbundle your career into buyable intellectual property.
U - Uncover. Target sandcastles, not sand. Build outcome-based pricing.
N - Navigate. Build the operational scaffolding of a real business.
C - Catalyse. Plug into an automated outreach engine.
H - Harness. Fuse your framework with technology. Scale beyond your own hours.

Real stories from real executives: David, a displaced CFO who went from a quiet spare bedroom to advising two fintech scale-ups. Sarah, who productised her talent for fixing "gnarly problems" into a named methodology. William, whose automated outreach generated 91 meetings with decision-makers. Victoria, the CMO who sat in her car wondering if she was disappearing - now doing the most creative work of her career.

None of them found a new job. They each built something better.

This book will give you:
A step-by-step framework for turning expertise into a commercial product
The "unbundling" method to find your highest-value advisory niche
Qualification tools to protect your time from the wrong opportunities
A portfolio model spanning fractional, board advisory, coaching, and more
The operational playbook for building systems that run your business
Real outreach templates and email examples in the Appendix

Whether you are a fractional C-suite executive, board advisor, management consultant, or corporate leader planning your exit, the LAUNCH framework meets you where you are and moves you forward.

"The Fractional Founder is the framework. Fractional Cloud is the engine. Together, they turn senior executives into the owners of autonomous advisory businesses."

Author: Colin Howes
ISBN-13: 9798255198917
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/19/2026
Pages: 92
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d