CEO PANEL TALK: FRACTIONAL FREEDOM – SEPTEMBER

You have successfully stepped out from corporate into running your own business. What needs to happen for you to thrive, achieve stable revenues, AND enjoy your time and life on your own terms?

For many fresh entrepreneurs, the answer is fractional leadership – a new form of client relationship that brings stability and long-term engagement to both the client and the supplier while preserving flexibility and business growth opportunities.

Because this form of leadership is still relatively new, we decided to speak with a few experts who have been working as fractional leaders for quite a while.

Welcome to our September CEO Panel Talk on the topic FRACTIONAL FREEDOM – How to Ignite and Deploy a Fractional Leadership Business Model that Frees Your Time, Boosts Your Income, and Brings the Stability You Crave as an Entrepreneur.

Join us to listen to inspiring stories of innovators in fractional leadership who can inspire your own business journey.

OUR SPEAKERS:

Katie Wilson is the founder of Serious Moonlight Consulting. She is a sales & marketing leader helping tech and retail companies achieve sustainable growth.

After leaving big tech – Katie worked for 15 years at Google as a Head of Sales – she has been able to help a variety of startups, companies, and individuals untangle and demystify their sales and marketing processes. Katie has been a featured speaker for @Google Talks, Wonder Women Tech, and Innovation Women. THE BOARD and Fortune have featured her writing and expertise.

Adriana Landaverde is the Founder and Product Consultant at Fabrica Consulting, where she partners with early and growth-stage companies as a fractional product executive.

With a career spanning Silicon Valley, London, and Barcelona, Adriana brings over a decade of experience leading product strategy, execution, and growth across consumer fintech and marketplace businesses. Adriana holds an MBA from Stanford and a degree in Economics from ESEN in El Salvador. She’s especially passionate about product leadership that blends business outcomes with empathy, experimentation, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Bhuva Shakti is the Chief Product Operations Officer driving software innovation and revenue growth at Wallet Max, a global community with a mission to expand private investments for corporate executives, venture capital investors, and sustainable startups.

With an MBA from Columbia University in New York and as a senior executive director on Wall Street for three decades, Bhuva has managed diverse financial portfolios and launched several digital transformation products for investment banks, capital markets, and payment networks. Bhuva is a board director and fractional C-Suite advisor for technology businesses, and a keynote speaker advancing economic inclusion and climate-fintech partnerships.

Lora Cover is the founder and CEO of colleague, an organization that places on-demand Chief People Officers, people strategists and implementation experts inside organizations.

She has over 25 years of talent experience, spending most of her career on the operational side. For over a decade she worked at Teach For America, recruiting teachers, then building a human assets team for the organization. Lora holds a bachelor’s degree in labor relations from Cornell University and a Master of Public Administration from The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Lauren Kaplan is the founder and CEO of Growth Ops Advisory, a business strategy and HR operations consultancy that helps small to midsize companies align their people and processes with business goals. Her firm works primarily with professional services firms and VC/PE-backed businesses with 20–65 employees and $5M–$50M in revenue. Lauren holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her previous roles include Head of Wholesale Operations at Hale & Hearty Soups, Senior Consultant at The Advisory Board, and COO at Nomad Financial.

WHAT WE WILL DISCUSS:

Some of the topics on our panel discussion agenda include:

1. How our speakers define fractional leadership and how they experience it in practice.
2. Why they decided to choose this business model for their consultancies.
3. What their daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly agendas look like, and how they master working with several clients at the same time.
4. The contractual specifics aimed at protecting both the clients and the fractional leaders and nurture the new type of relationship.
5. How they pursue scalability for their own business practices.
6. How our speakers navigate income stability and time management in order to experience fractional freedom.

At the end of our panel discussion, you will leave with:

1. A clear understanding of what fractional leadership is and how it can work in practice.
2. Clarity on how fractional leadership can serve small and medium-sized companies and scale-ups.
3. Reflections on whether this model could suit you and your emerging business.
4. Practical insider advice on what you should pursue – and avoid – if you want to become a fractional leader.
5. And so much more. 

WHO SHOULD JOIN OUR CEO PANEL TALK?

This event is open to members of THE CEO ELEVATION CIRCLE and our extended network. Any senior woman leader interested in exiting corporate to start her own business successfully is welcome to join us. 

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT DURING OUR CEO PANEL TALK?

Here is the plan for the event:

1. 17.45 – 18.00: Informal welcome and warm-up.  
2. 18.00 – 18.45: Guided panel discussion on what fractional leadership looks like in practice.
3. 18.45 – 19.20: Q&A with the audience.
4. 19.20 – 19.30: Wrap-up and upcoming event invitations. 

LOGISTICS

• Our CEO PANEL TALK takes place virtually, on Zoom.
• You’ll need the app installed on your computer. Using Zoom on a mobile device will significantly reduce your participation experience.
• The virtual doors open at 17:45 CET for informal chit-chat and warm-up.
• The session is recorded. Provided that you register for this event, you’ll have access to the video and audio recording afterward.
• Your full mental and emotional presence is required during the whole event. We invite you to have your camera on throughout to avoid interruptions or multitasking. This is an investment in yourself—respect your time.
• Photos of the virtual room will be taken during the event. By registering, you consent to photography being used later for marketing purposes.  

QUESTIONS?

We look forward to meeting you online on Thursday, September 4, 2025, from 18.00 CEST!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Cristina directly via WhatsApp at +420 776 574 925 or email her at cristina.muntean@vornica.com.

See you at our CEO PANEL TALK – FRACTIONAL FREEDOM!