Interim and Fractional Leadership
Keep your organization moving through every leadership transition.
An unexpected departure, a planned leave, or a gap in senior capacity can have a ripple effect that stalls progress. Staff lose direction. Partners wait. Board members temporarily step into roles they were never meant to fill.
You need time to prepare for a thoughtful executive search without worrying about your organization falling behind in the interim. You need experienced leadership now.
Lindauer’s Interim and Fractional Leadership network offers seasoned executives and specialists for senior leadership and functional roles. They step in fast, stabilize operations, and advance your priorities so your organization stays on track in the present while laying the groundwork for a strong future.
Facing a Leadership Gap?
Every week without the right leader can set you back. Let’s keep your momentum going and position your organization for its next chapter.
What Interim and Fractional Leadership Makes Possible
- Covering an unexpected departure, a planned leave, or an expected transition without losing momentum
- Stabilizing your organization through a crisis, turnaround, or restructuring
- Giving your board time to run a thoughtful permanent search
- Testing a new leadership role before committing to a full-time hire
- Adding specific functional expertise your budget does not yet support full time
- Guiding a merger, campaign, or major strategic initiative
- Preparing your organization and team for its next permanent leader
How It Works
Interim leaders step into a senior or functional role for a defined period, either working inside your team day to day or focused on a specific mandate.
Fractional leaders bring specific expertise part time on an ongoing basis.
Stabilize
An interim executive steps in quickly to hold operations steady, protect key relationships, and keep your team focused while your board plans the next move.
Bridge
An interim leader serves with the option to become your permanent hire. We define the path and terms at the start, so your board and your leader know how a move to permanent works.
Extend
A fractional executive or specialist joins your team part time. You gain senior expertise without the cost of a full-time hire.
Search
When you need a permanent leader, Lindauer runs a full retained executive search while your interim leader keeps the organization strong. If a fractional role grows into a full-time need, we can run that search too.
Why It Works
We start with you
Before we recommend a leader, we learn what triggered the need, what must hold steady, and what success looks like in the first 90 days.
You get a leader matched to your mission
Our executives and functional specialists bring proven leadership experience in organizations like yours. We match on sector, culture, and the specific challenge in front of you.
We move with urgency
Leadership or functional gaps cost you time and trust. We present qualified options quickly so your organization keeps moving.
Your interim or fractional leader's insights can inform a permanent search
When you run a Lindauer executive search, your interim leader and your permanent hire connect. No handoffs between firms. No loss of institutional knowledge. When you do not need a search, your interim or fractional leader delivers for the duration of their tenure.
We stay with you
Lindauer remains engaged through the full assignment, with regular check-ins with your board and your leader to keep the work on track.
