Fractional program leadership

Critical initiatives need senior leadership—not always another full-time hire.

PMN helps regulated, growth-stage, and PE-backed organizations assess complex initiatives, establish the right delivery structure, and lead execution through experienced program leaders and PMN-led teams.

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PMN point of view

Complex initiatives rarely fail for lack of plans. They fail when no one senior is accountable for execution.

When a critical initiative is launched, organizations usually face the same choice: hire a permanent senior leader the business may not need once the work is done, or bring in a large consultancy that bills for scale and distance.

PMN was built for the space between those options — senior program leadership scoped to the initiative, accountable to the executive sponsor, and backed by a firm rather than a single consultant.

When organizations bring in PMN

Situations we are brought into.

  1. A critical initiative is behind schedule, over budget, or losing executive confidence.

  2. A regulatory commitment, audit finding, or control remediation has a fixed date and no clear owner.

  3. A PE-backed or growth-stage company is scaling faster than its delivery structure can support.

  4. A transformation or platform program spans functions that do not report to the same leader.

  5. A PMO exists on paper but not in practice — status reads green until the milestone is missed.

  6. Leadership needs an independent assessment before committing more capital or more people.

Selected engagements

Programs led, stabilized, and shipped.

Selected experience led by PMN's founder before and through the formation of the firm. Client identities are anonymized.

All case studies

Financial Services

Enterprise transformation across 8 functions at a top-tier global bank

annual savings
$12M
annual savings
on-time
98%
on-time
team members
50+
team members

Defense & Regulated Industries

Trilateral secure co-development program (U.S. · U.K. · Australia)

jurisdictions
3
jurisdictions
L1/L2 aligned
CMMC
L1/L2 aligned
architecture
Enclave
architecture

Healthcare

$25M+ digital transformation for a major pediatric health system

system rollouts
26
system rollouts
team members
65+
team members
fewer defects
25%
fewer defects

Fintech & Financial Software

Process automation program across 55+ critical workflows

annualized savings
$8M+
annualized savings
faster cycles
25%
faster cycles
workflows
55+
workflows
What PMN does

Three ways to engage.

Assessment and Roadmap

A focused, time-boxed review of an initiative, program, or portfolio: where it actually stands, what is at risk, and what it will take to deliver.

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Fractional Program Leadership

A senior PMN program leader embedded with your executive sponsor and teams, owning delivery of a critical initiative for the duration of the work.

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PMN-Led Delivery Teams

When an initiative needs more than one leader, PMN assembles and leads a right-sized team of experienced delivery operators under PMN accountability.

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Why fractional and FTE-competitive economics

Senior leadership, scoped to the initiative.

A full-time senior hire carries fixed cost, hiring lag, and ramp time — and often outlasts the need that created the role. A large consultancy brings scale you may not need and overhead you will pay for. Fractional program leadership places a senior operator on the initiative at FTE-competitive cost, for as long as the work requires, with a defined end.

Immediate activation

Senior leadership engaged in weeks, not the months a search and ramp cycle takes.

Right-sized commitment

Commitment scales with the initiative — up during critical phases, down as it stabilizes.

Defined end state

Every engagement has an agreed exit and transition, so cost does not persist after the work is done.

Why PMN

What makes PMN different.

Led by operators, not advisors

PMN program leaders have run enterprise programs from the inside — they own cadence, decisions, and outcomes rather than recommending from a distance.

Accountable to the sponsor

Every engagement has a named PMN leader accountable to the executive sponsor for delivery quality and outcomes.

A firm, not a single consultant

PMN remains accountable for executive alignment, delivery quality, and outcomes while experienced operators lead day-to-day execution.

Built for regulated environments

Governance, evidence, and control-oriented execution are part of how PMN runs programs — not an overlay added when the auditors arrive.

Properly attributed experience

The delivery record behind the firm.

Selected experience led by PMN's founder before and through the formation of the firm.

$100M+

in digital strategy programs led

$15M+

in cost savings realized for employers and clients

98%

on-time delivery across the portfolios led

12+

years leading enterprise programs

These figures reflect programs led by Brandon Rodgers at Citi, Cook Children's Health Care System, and in earlier roles — not PMN client engagements. They are presented to show the experience PMN's model is built on.

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