CEOpower is a hand-picked network of former Presidents and CEOs who now serve as Fractional COOs to current ones.
We don’t deploy consultants. We don’t run a marketplace. We embed senior operators — people who have already led companies — into the businesses of the CEOs who need them.
If you’ve sat in the seat and you’re not ready to stop building, this is for you.
This is focused, high-impact operating work for current CEOs of $10M–$200M companies. You'll embed in their leadership rhythm, own the priorities they can't get to, and run them to completion. You'll bring decades of operating judgment to a small number of engagements at any given time — and you'll get to do the work, not just talk about it.
This isn't a job. It isn't a consulting practice. It isn't a coaching arrangement. We aren't a staffing agency or a fractional marketplace. We're a curated network of peers, and we run it that way.
We’re selective by design. The bar:
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Every CEOpower engagement is different, because every CEO’s bottleneck is different. But the shape of the work is consistent:
You embed in the rhythm of a CEO’s business — leadership meetings, priority list, key stakeholders — and take ownership of the initiatives that have been sitting on the list for too long because no one else in the organization has the altitude to carry them. You execute, hold accountability, and stay until the work is done.
Some engagements are project-defined and run a few months. Others are retained and continue for years. You can carry one engagement or several, depending on your bandwidth and the work in front of you.
This is senior operating work, scoped around outcomes — not hours, not advice, not deliverables.
For most of us, the best part of leadership was never the title. It was the building, the solving, and the part where you actually moved things.
Serving as a CEOpower Fractional COO lets you apply decades of operating judgment in a focused, high-impact way — without taking on full organizational responsibility. You stay in the work and out of the politics. You get the parts of the job you loved and skip the parts that drove you out of it.
Most of our network members are in one of three places: retired but restless, semi-retired and choosing flexibility, or between executive roles and wanting to stay sharp. For all of them, the draw is the same — meaningful work, with peers, on their terms.
We review every submission personally. Adrienne reads them.
The application takes about ten minutes. You’ll share your background, the work you want to do, and the kind of engagement that fits your life.
If the bar matches and the timing fits, we’ll set up an intake conversation. If it’s not a fit right now, you’ll hear that directly — we don’t keep candidates on indefinite hold.
