Corp-Sitting

As the established principal, the time comes when you need to step back from the business. We provide temporary senior-level cover for the work you personally drive, until you’re back at the helm. Call it momentum hold — our specialty. Your mandate, across companies, departments, titles, and levels of detail.

You need to step back for a while. It happens. We step in, momentum holds, your course stays steady.

What It Is For

Step away temporarily, without losing momentum.

Our service is designed to advance and maintain the initiatives you’re personally driving, especially those that cross departments or disciplines. You define what you want — responsibilities, authority, and limits. GrayWire steps in with your mandate, keeps your initiatives moving, and keeps them on track in your absence.

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Operational Continuity

A leader becomes unavailable, a vacancy appears, or circumstances change without notice. We plug in alongside your staff, cover the gap, maintain accountability, and keep the systems, teams, and decisions from drifting while you work through what comes next.

Momentum Hold

You’ve been driving a core initiative hands-on, and momentum is solid. Then something changes — a key person lost, a vendor issue, competing priorities — and that opens a gap. Left untended, momentum will fade. GrayWire steps in, drives it, and keeps it on track until you’re back at the helm.

On Your Behalf

Something important needs doing. You’d handle it yourself, hands-on, personally, your way. But you’re out of town, or haven’t the time. We do it on your behalf, the way you want it done — empowered to act in your name until it’s delivered.

The GrayWire Way

Whether your needs are urgent or you’re planning ahead, getting started is easy.

Here’s what to expect.

Whatever your reason — a leadership vacancy, a health reason, a senior leader unavailable, a month away — something needs cover. Our process is straightforward. Of course, an early start always makes things easier.

01 Assess What Needs TendingWe begin with a private conversation about what you personally need covered. Together we work through your operating model, the right structure, responsibilities, authority, limits, and expected end state. 02 Match Resource to MandateWe assign the person able to operate across the required range. That may be all or part of a siloed C-level function, working horizontally across business functions, or work that moves vertically from senior direction down into operational minutiae. It’s all about the right tool for the job. 03 Embed OperationallyYour GrayWire resource plugs in with your team — in step with their operating rhythm, inside the systems, relationships, and decision cadence already in place. Enough presence to maintain your momentum, but no more. 04 Hold Course and Hand BackWe manage and track to the outcomes in your mandate, keeping the necessary work moving, with accountability structures in place — remaining until you return or we’ve delivered.

Try It Once…

One taste of Corp-Sitting, and you’ll be addicted.

Peace of Mind What matters to you keeps moving, even as you pull back.

Sense of Well-Being Say goodbye to late-night worries. Relax, sleep easy. You deserve it.

Take Time to Be You Buy the yacht. Polish up your golf swing. Take the month. Take two. Dabble in pickleball. Get healthy and spend time with family.

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If you’ve got kids, you know. Finding a game-changer. You get your life back. Well, Corp-Sitting is exactly the same. Try it just once, and you’ll be addicted. And it’ll change your life.

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Nick McKenzieFounder & CEO — GrayWire

To be clear, Corp-Sitting is not a fractional executive or interim executive service.

Here’s the difference.

The services can look similar from a distance. Both may place an experienced resource inside a business for a time. The difference is what defines the work: a conventional role, or the principal’s particular combination of responsibilities.

We Serve the Principal

Fractional Executive providers work with anyone who needs to fill a clearly defined executive role, and is willing to pay. GrayWire’s Corp-Sitting is targeted to business principals of privately held companies, who take an active role in their business.

We Offer Different Services

Fractional Executive firms supply “role-replacement” resources — CEO, CTO, COO — to fill a vacant spot on your leadership team. Our Corp-Sitting is geared towards standing in for you, an actively engaged business principal, keeping your important initiatives on track: “owner-momentum hold.”

Our Business Models Are Different

A Fractional Executive Provider is an employment agency: they build a stable of talent and pitch it to you. Fractional means “try before you buy.” Corp-Sitting, on the other hand, is about you — the principal — keeping things moving when needed, your way.

We’re Solving Different Needs

Choose a Fractional Executive if you need to fill a standard C-level role, with a standard corporate “box” defining what that role does. Choose Corp-Sitting when you need someone to ‘do what you do,’ across departments, roles, divisions, management levels or businesses, while you’re away.

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Corp-Sitting may well be precisely what you’ve always needed.

Let’s have a conversation.

We start with a conversation about you, what needs tending, and whether GrayWire is the right fit. If it is, we can move on to discuss proposals and assignment.

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