Fractional Strategy and Growth Leadership
Is This the Right Fit for Your Organization?
This model is ideal for:
Small to mid sized organizations facing a growth inflection point
CEOs with limited internal strategy or growth capacity for their strategic plan
Organizations seeking diversification of funding streams
Executives looking to grow their services
Leaders launching new initiatives or evolving their business model
Boards seeking assurance during periods of leadership transition
Whether the goal is launching a new initiative, diversifying revenue, or revitalizing stalled plans, Lucent 360 brings strategic leadership and a bias toward action to help organizations move forward with confidence.
For CEOs, it means having a trusted partner who can carry weight, provide strategic lift, and help translate big ideas into tangible outcomes.
The Challenge for CEOs
“We have the vision — but not the capacity to turn it into reality.”
Even the most effective CEOs often face execution bottlenecks:
Unexecuted Plans: Strategy is in place, but there is no one with capacity or bandwidth to lead implementation.
Misaligned Accountability: Teams need accountability infrastructure to ensure faster, coordinated delivery.
Stagnant Revenue: Funding is too dependent on a primary source, creating risk and limiting innovation.
Scaling Uncertainty: Questions about how to scale sustainably without adding permanent staff.
Strategic Communications: Driving critical decisions requires aligning diverse stakeholders through thoughtful, strategic messaging.
Change Management: Transformational change requires both releasing legacy practices and embracing new approaches with intention.
A fractional leader brings targeted capacity, clarity, and forward motion to help move complex efforts forward. This model is particularly valuable during times of transition, growth, or uncertainty.
How Lucent 360 Creates Value
Lucent 360 offers part-time, embedded leadership from seasoned executives with real-world experience in growth, scaling, and implementation of strategy, business development and new service growth. We become part of your team—driving strategy forward without the full-time commitment.
From Strategy to Execution: Great ideas often lose steam in execution. We bridge the gap by translating strategic plans into action. With fractional leadership, your team gains the structure, accountability, and momentum needed to deliver on your vision.
Flexible, Cost-Effective Expertise: Get executive-level support at a fraction of the cost. Our model scales with your organization—providing just the right level of support based on your evolving goals, capacity, and budget.
Progress the Builds Confidence: Stakeholders—boards, funders, and staff—gain confidence in your direction when progress is clear and consistent. We help you show results that matter.
Lasting Change Leadership: Change takes more than a plan—it requires people. Our engagements often include coaching and mentoring for internal leaders, building lasting capacity well beyond our time together
Innovation Lab and Pilots: Turn ideas into action with rapid-cycle innovation. We apply lean methods to test, refine, and launch new programs or services with real users—reducing risk and accelerating learning.
Revenue Diversification and Business Development: We design and execute multi-channel funding strategies, forge new partnerships, and expand your network to position your organization for long-term, sustainable growth.
Growth & Revenue Strategies You Can Activate
We help organizations design and implement multi-channel revenue strategies that reduce risk and drive sustainable growth. From mission-aligned partnerships to targeted business development, we position your organization to expand impact, unlock new opportunities, and build long-term financial resilience.
Examples of how we support growth include:
Strategic Partnerships: Structure mutually beneficial alliances with corporations, partners, academic institutions an other businesses.
Pilot and launch new products or services – Execute disciplined go-to-market strategies.
Create new service lines – Align offerings with mission, market need, and revenue potential.
Revamp pricing models – Optimize fee-for-service programs, membership subscription models, and earned income streams.
Monetize existing assets –Package internal tools, content, assets, or trainings into sellable or licensable products. Pursue government contracts – Position the organization for government contract eligibility, including SAM registration, teaming strategies, and compliance readiness.
Build grant and sponsorship programs – Align funding strategies to support scale and impact.
Strengthen fundraising programs – Revamp development infrastructure, refresh donor messaging, and create multi-channel strategies for grants, sponsorships, and individual donor engagement.
Why This Model Works
Fractional services are focused on implementation of strategy and growth, whereas traditional strategic planning consulting is focused on developing a future-oriented, long-term vision for the organization. Both are important to the success and sustainability and both have value to executives and leaders. Here's how they are different.
Dimension Fractional Model Traditional Consulting
Role Embedded Executive External Advisory
Focus Strategy Implementation Strategy Development
Relationship Long-term, Evolving Short-term, Fixed
Cost Model Flexible, Retainer Based Fixed, Project Based
Approach Collaborative, Hands-On Framework-driven, Externalized
Benefits Accountability, Coordinated Future-oriented, Visionary
Strategic Execution Support for Vision-Driven CEOs
CEOs today are under constant pressure to deliver bold strategies while maintaining organizational stability. Whether navigating new strategic plan, pursuing growth opportunities, or managing constrained resources, the burden of execution often falls on already stretched leadership teams - especially for small-to-mid sized businesses.
Lucent 360 offers a modern, flexible solution: fractional strategy and growth leadership. This model embeds senior, part-time executive support directly into an organization’s leadership team to bridge capacity gaps and accelerate execution. Different than traditional strategy consulting, where the focus is on market assessment and planning, Lucent 360's fractional leadership service helps organizations move from strategy to implementation.
At the heart of our work is a deep understanding of what makes small and mid-sized organizations thrive. We partner with mission-driven nonprofits and associations where boards and executives collaborate to chart strategic direction. We also support bold, founder-led and CEO-driven companies growing fast—often with investor backing but without traditional governance—helping them scale with clarity, agility, and focus.