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What I learned building a fractional executive career

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18.03.2026

What I learned building a fractional executive career

After landing two part-time General Counsel roles through networking, one executive discovered how fractional leadership offers flexibility, higher earning potential, and a hedge against layoffs.

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As a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School I believed full-time roles were the only way to succeed, until an unexpected Bollywood acting opportunity opened my eyes to freelance-forward careers. Since then, I have toggled between holding full-time executive roles and fractional ones. 

If you’re not familiar with the phrase, you can think of fractional work as the executive version of........

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