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Fractional Leadership
An experienced NectarGlobal leader joins your leadership team for agreed days, owns agreed outcomes, and builds the capability your people keep. When the work needs hands-on delivery, forward-deployed experts join them.
Fractional means an experienced leader who works with you for agreed days, or full-time for a short period, instead of a permanent hire.
Two businesses, two ways of working, and one set of results to deliver. Someone senior needs to own the integration.
A leader has left or the role is new, and the work can't wait months for a permanent hire.
Preparing for funding, a sale or an IPO means reporting, controls and governance that hold up to scrutiny.
The budget is committed, but nobody senior is steering it day to day, and risks are building.
Expanding into the Gulf, India, Africa, Europe or beyond is easier with a leader who has already worked there.
Transformation, AI, operations or change capability that stays in your business after the engagement ends.
One experienced person you meet before anything is signed, not a team rotated in and out.
Every engagement is overseen by one of our managing partners, Ravi Shankar R or Shankar Visveswaran, who stays accountable for it alongside your leader.
Typically one to three days a week, or full-time for a short, agreed period when the moment demands it. Set out in writing.
What they own, how progress is measured, and who they report to, all written down at the start.
They work inside your governance, with your people, under your authority.
A written view after the first 30 days, then a review every 90 days where you decide to continue, adjust or close.
The aim from the start is capability your own team can carry on.
Each leader brings years of senior responsibility in the work they take on. You meet them before you decide.
Managing Partner · leads Fractional Leadership
Chief Transformation Officer · CIO
Dubai · London · Bangalore
Leads enterprise change and technology decisions, especially for businesses running on SAP.
Managing Partner · leads Fractional Leadership
Operations & Technology Leader
Abu Dhabi · Chennai · London
Connects operations, industrial systems and Oracle / JD Edwards platforms to business decisions.
Business Transformation Leader, Middle East & North Africa
Dubai
Aligns executive priorities, roadmaps and delivery across business transformation, with deep Middle East and North Africa experience.
Chief AI & Product Officer
Abu Dhabi · Chennai
Turns AI and product ideas into workflows the business can use and govern.
Operations, Industry 4.0 & ESG Leader
Abu Dhabi · Chennai
Turns plant, asset and sustainability data into operating decisions.
Change & Adoption Leader
Dubai · Bangalore
Makes sure people understand, adopt and sustain new ways of working.
Need a different kind of leader? Tell us the gap, and we'll tell you plainly whether we can fill it.
Senior perspective that stays with the business as its priorities evolve.
An initial six-week assessment grew into six months of senior consultation: AI-enabled design, finance consolidation and strategic options for the group’s boards.
A NectarGlobal leader meets you, agrees scope, joins your leadership team within two to three weeks, gives a written view at 30 days, and reviews with you every 90 days to continue, adjust or hand over to your permanent owner.
Week 0
The gap, what's at stake and the timing. No obligation.
Week 1
We propose a leader, a time commitment, outcomes and a reporting line. You meet the leader before anything is signed.
Weeks 2–3
The leader starts with your team, typically within two to three weeks of agreement.
Day 30
A written view of what they found and the plan they propose.
Every 90 days
A review against the agreed outcomes: continue, adjust or hand over.
From the first month, your fractional leader works to make themselves less necessary: documenting decisions, developing your people, and hiring or growing the permanent owner of the role where you want one. When the engagement ends, the capability stays with your team.
When an outcome needs hands-on work (a process fixed, an ERP module stabilised, an integration or migration step delivered, infrastructure strengthened, or an AI workflow built), forward-deployed experts join your team and work inside your systems, alongside your people, under the direction of your fractional leader. Depending on the work, they are functional, technical or infrastructure consultants, process specialists, or AI and product engineers.
They know enterprise systems and operations: functional, technical, infrastructure and process specialists who work inside SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards and plant operations, with AI and product engineers when a solution needs building. Every assignment is directed by a fractional leader and overseen by a managing partner, and the aim is capability your team owns, not a dependency on us.
Experts are named and introduced before you commit. Tell us what needs doing
Both are NectarGlobal offers, and many clients use both. The right choice depends on what your situation needs now.
Choose both when the change is large and you want a senior leader on your side throughout. A fractional leader owns the agenda inside your leadership team, and the programme delivers the scope. Forward-deployed experts can join either when a specific piece of work needs hands-on delivery.
Planning a permanent hire? A fractional leader can hold the role in the meantime and help you define and recruit it.
Your fractional leader works for your business. If they believe you need outside delivery support, from NectarGlobal or anyone else, they will say so openly, disclose any NectarGlobal interest in writing, and leave the decision to your leadership team.
A monthly fee based on the days agreed. A short minimum initial term, then month to month with a clear notice period, all agreed in writing before you commit.
An interim executive is usually full-time for a fixed period. A fractional leader can work agreed days each month or full-time for a short period, alongside your team, and is backed by our managing partners and wider leadership bench when specialist judgement is needed.
When you need senior ownership quickly, for a period, or before you're sure what the permanent role should be. A fractional leader can typically start within two to three weeks, works month to month after a short minimum term, and can help you define and hire the permanent role.
They work together. A programme delivers a defined scope with a full team. A fractional leader owns agreed outcomes inside your leadership team, often steering a programme on your side, or shaping one before it starts.
Specialists who work inside a client's business, in its systems and alongside its people, to deliver an agreed outcome with a planned handover. Depending on the work, they are functional, technical or infrastructure consultants, process specialists, or, for AI and product development, forward-deployed engineers.
Not always. Many clients start with a fractional leader alone. Experts join when there is a defined piece of hands-on work to deliver, and always under the direction of a leader.
Yes, for AI and product development. Our forward-deployed engineers build and ship AI workflows and product capability inside your systems, as part of a forward-deployed team directed by a fractional leader.
A monthly fee based on the days agreed. You'll know the fee, the minimum term and the notice period before you commit.
Your fractional leader, and the managing partner overseeing the engagement, Ravi Shankar R or Shankar Visveswaran. You'll know both names from the start.
You meet the leader before you commit. At any review you can change the scope, ask for a different leader, or close the engagement within the agreed notice period.
We work with clients in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, Oman, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Ethiopia and Uganda. Our fractional leaders are based in these cities: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Chennai, Bangalore and London and work with clients in person and remotely.
Describe the gap and the timing. We'll tell you plainly whether one of our leaders is the right fit, and if not, we'll say so.
