# Shipstern Leadership

> Shipstern Leadership places proven fractional CEOs, Presidents and COOs with growing North American companies, 1–3 days a week, on 30 days’ notice.

- Serves: North America
- Expertise: Fractional leadership, Fractional CEO, Fractional President, Fractional COO, Capital raising, Business growth
- Founded: 2022

## How an engagement works

- 1–3 days a week: Proven leaders run the business part time.
- Outcomes up front: Decision rights and measures agreed with the board.
- 30 days’ notice: No long-term contract; clients stay for results.
- Rigorously vetted: Every executive has led a larger business.

## Results

- $60M+ raised with our clients
- 50%+ average client growth rate within the first year
- 6 capital raises closed with our clients
- 100% of engagements renewed or extended by clients

## Client work

- Well Juicery (Strategy, 3 years): Growing the business 145% in under three years. Improved margins and led the retail push in Canada: new distribution, new retail partners, and the operations to serve them. Result: +145% revenue growth in 3 years.
- Brunswick Bierworks (Growth, 2 years): Winning the world’s leading beverage companies as new customers. As Canada’s leading beverage co-packer, Brunswick added six of the largest global beverage brands to its customer base in two years. Result: 6 of the world’s largest beverage companies added as customers.
- Misguided Spirits (Strategy, 3 years): From New York breakout to multi-state challenger brand. Built the team, distribution, and cultural credibility to scale a locally-loved brand across new U.S. markets. Result: #2 spirits brand at Winebow after 2 years in 2 of 4 regions.
- Porifera (Capital, 3 years): Building the commercial engine behind a category-creating technology. Led the commercial buildout for a breakthrough beverage-concentration technology, positioning Porifera for its next chapter of growth. Result: US$8M Series B raised.

## Is fractional leadership a fit?

- Signs it may be time: Growth has stalled, or priorities keep changing. A raise, an expansion, new ownership or a sale is ahead. The founder or owner has become the bottleneck.
- It works best when: The business needs more experience at the top than it can afford full time. Owners are ready to give that leader real authority.
- Less suited: Turnarounds and restructurings, which need someone full time. Short projects that end with a report. Owners who want advice but plan to keep every decision.

## FAQ

- How does the sign up work? 1. Intro call: Thirty minutes with a Partner. 2. Diagnostic: Two weeks to meet the team, review the numbers and agree the outcome and measures with you and your board. Both sides confirm the fit. 3. Engagement: Your executive starts within a month, one to three days a week, and reports monthly against the agreed measures.
- How does the cost compare? You pay for one to three days a week, with no salary, benefits, bonus or recruitment fee.
- How can a fractional leader deliver more than a full-time hire? Our executives have led larger, more complex businesses. They know what good looks like, decide quickly and aren’t learning on the job. A few days a week of that experience goes further than a full week from a less experienced leader. They also arrive with a network built over decades. That means warm introductions to investors when you’re raising, to prospective customers and partners when you’re selling, and to the operators and advisors you’ll need along the way. And having a proven executive on your leadership page lends credibility with investors, lenders and enterprise buyers that a first-time hire can’t yet provide.
- What if it isn’t working? Either side can end the engagement on 30 days’ notice.
- Can a Shipstern leader work alongside our founder or CEO? Yes. Roles and decision rights are agreed with the owners and the board before we start.
- How quickly can a leader start? Usually within a month of our first conversation.
- Is it confidential? Yes.

## Clients

- Well Juicery
- Porifera
- Misguided Spirits
- Clearly Canadian
- Brunswick Bierworks

## Main pages

- [Home](https://www.shipsternleadership.com/): What Shipstern Leadership does, the clients it works with, its results, and how a fractional engagement works.
- [Get started](https://www.shipsternleadership.com/get-started/): How to start with Shipstern Leadership: take the readiness quiz, book a thirty-minute call with a partner, or apply to join the partner team.
- [Careers](https://www.shipsternleadership.com/careers/): How Shipstern partners work as fractional CEOs, Presidents and COOs, who the firm looks for, and how executives and specialists can apply.
- [Readiness quiz](https://www.shipsternleadership.com/quiz/): A two-minute, nine-question self-assessment of whether a business is ready for a fractional CEO, President or COO, with an instant result and no email required.