Operations executive · COO mandates · CIO mandates
Bring Donald Marzullo into an agreed operations or technology leadership role when the organization needs executive capacity, continuity, or focused change. Set the mandate, decision authority, reserved time, and outcomes at the outset.
Discuss your needs ↗CEOs, owners, boards & consulting partners
Part-time recurring or time-bound interim assignment
An accountable operating mandate and delivery cadence
Choose the right mandate
Lead the operating priorities that connect teams, vendors, resources, and service performance.
Connect technology decisions to business priorities and accountable delivery.
When to bring us in
What you receive
Responsibilities made explicit, evidence connected to decisions, and work shaped around your operating needs.
Agree responsibilities, reporting relationships, delegated authority, expected availability, success measures, and escalation needs. Define which decisions remain with the CEO, board, or other executives.
Establish a reliable picture of priorities, commitments, team capacity, vendors, budgets, and material risks within the assigned function. Record inherited issues and information gaps.
Translate the mandate into staged outcomes, named owners, dependencies, and management decisions. Confirm what is achievable within the reserved capacity and available resources.
Establish the meetings, performance measures, action tracking, and decision records needed to lead the work. Make progress, delivery constraints, and material risks visible to the sponsor.
Coordinate the agreed work across staff, vendors, and stakeholders. Support modernization, operational improvement, program recovery, or AI governance implementation within the assigned mandate.
Document decisions, open commitments, operating routines, risks, and recommendations. Support handoff to a permanent leader or an agreed successor arrangement.
From mandate to continuity
A leadership engagement connects the initial review to ongoing execution and a deliberate handoff.
Understand the operation, inherited commitments, capacity, and risks.
Agree priorities, authority, responsibilities, and success measures.
Coordinate people and vendors, make delegated decisions, and report progress.
Transfer the operating cadence, decisions, open actions, and knowledge.
Illustrative engagement structure. Responsibilities and authority are defined for the specific role.
A company needs technology leadership while recruiting a permanent CIO.
Agree an interim mandate, establish portfolio priorities and vendor oversight, clarify AI decisions, and introduce a regular executive review.
A functioning management cadence, owned priorities, visible decisions, and a documented handoff for the incoming leader.
To make the work effective
Scope & assumptions
Capacity, availability, decision authority, location, travel, fees, and term are agreed for each assignment. An advisory assessment alone does not confer executive authority. Technical engineering, specialist testing, and additional team resources require an agreed delivery scope.
After the initial engagement
Continue a fractional mandate, extend a time-bound interim assignment, or transition to a permanent successor with a defined handoff. Periodic sponsor reviews keep priorities and capacity aligned.
Before we begin
Fractional leadership provides recurring executive capacity for agreed days or hours. An interim assignment fills a temporary leadership need for a defined period; it can be part-time or more intensive. The exact commitment is agreed before starting.
Yes, where the responsibilities and available capacity make that practical. Scope the operating and technology outcomes explicitly so a broad title does not obscure priorities or accountability.
Donald is open to travel and relocation. Location, on-site expectations, timing, and related arrangements are discussed for the specific engagement.
Fees reflect reserved capacity, scope, executive responsibility, term, and travel requirements. The engagement agreement defines availability, deliverables, review points, and payment terms.
A clear next step
Discuss AI governance, an implementation idea, program recovery, a fractional executive mandate, board advisory, or a board appointment opportunity. Start with a 30-minute conversation to establish fit.
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