Fractional executive leadership
Experienced leadership, inside your business.
Not advice from across the table. We take the work on with you — for as long as you need it, and not a day longer.
- Founded, scaled, and sold a 40-person software company
- VP and board director through a $100M company's sale
- Eleven years of screening and due diligence, Queen City Angels
- Entrepreneur in Residence, University of Cincinnati
From overwhelmed to in control
Too many fires, too few hands, and not enough hours — it's time for experienced leadership.
Our services are built for owners navigating everything from a lack of strategic direction to growth arriving faster than the organization can absorb it.
The ceiling most owner-led businesses hit isn't about effort. The org chart stopped matching the work. Margins slipped while revenue grew. These are solvable problems — they're just very difficult to solve from inside the business while also carrying it.
The ceiling
A system that held together at ten people is buckling at thirty.
Nobody has time to fix it, because everybody is busy running it. That is the thing an experienced operator changes first.
How we work
Four steps — and you can stop after any of them.
No long discovery phase, no six-figure engagement letter before anyone has proven anything. Each step earns the next one.
Schedule a no-cost consultation
A 30-minute call about your goals, your pain points, and your timeline. Zero obligation — the aim is that you leave with more clarity than you arrived with.
Explore your business needs
A short pre-call questionnaire, then we dig into operations, finances, and team dynamics together. The goal is to surface the root causes holding the business back, not the symptoms everyone already knows about.
Receive a strategic roadmap
Within three business days: top priorities, quick wins, and a 90-day action plan. We review it with you so every step is clear and measurable. It's yours whether or not we work together.
Take the risk-free week
We take on one urgent issue or one quick win and work it over the course of a week — scoped to the problem, not to a number of hours. You judge the value at the end; if it wasn't there, there's no invoice. We offer it because a week of real work tells you more than any proposal ever will.
What we help with
Range, because small business problems rarely stay in one lane.
Strategy & growth
Direction, planning, market analysis, and business development when the next move isn't obvious.
Operations & margin
Process, structure, and financial management when growth has outpaced the systems underneath it.
Technology & AI
Where AI actually helps your business, where it doesn't, and what it costs to find out.
Why FTX
Advice is easy to find. Someone to do the work is not.
Coaching and peer groups
Genuinely valuable — they help you think more clearly. But you still go home and execute alone, with the same hours in the day.
FTX Solutions
We get inside the business and do the work with you. One accountable partner throughout, with specialists brought in when a problem needs more than one person.
Engagements are led by Christopher R. Schaber, founder of FTX Solutions, who has spent forty years founding, scaling, selling, and advising businesses. More about the background →
Start here
One call. Thirty minutes. Nothing to sign.
Tell us what's going on and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help — and if we can't, who might.