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Strategy and Leadership as Service: How the Access Economy Meets the C-Suite

Sara Daw

  • “Strategy and Leadership as Service” isn’t just a nice idea; it is a practical, alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives that is starting to gain significant interest and is being adopted by businesses globally. Disrupting and challenging the traditional full-time employment model, the “Strategy and Leadership as Service” framework provides businesses with access to the complete range of functional, emotional, and collective intelligence at the C-suite level by moving their positions from the “pay-roll” to an “access-role.”

    The book provides business leaders, C-suite portfolio executives, human resource professionals, strategy consultants, leadership coaches, organisational development consultants, recruiters, professional service firms, academics, and forward-thinking business students with a radical new view of how the access economy can be applied to business strategy and leadership for more sustainable futures.

  • “Leaders face many challenges in today’s turbulent environment. Workforce planning and providing meaningful work that will attract and retain talent is high on that list of challenges. This well written, empirically rich book provides many insights into a different way of getting work done. The access economy is explained and evidenced as an exciting and effective sustainable alternative to the traditional full-time work model. A must read.”

    Professor Sue Dopson, Deputy Dean, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

  • “Forget what you think you know about the ‘gig economy.’ Sara Daw's book is a fascinating read packed with key insights! The access economy is more than just a transient trend – in the global race for talent, traditional talent acquisition models are becoming outdated. Fueled by technology, changing attitudes, demographics and economic conditions, the future belongs to those with agile talent supply chain strategies. Sara cuts to the core of the Strategy and Leadership as Service model with real-world examples, making this a practical, useful, helpful, fun, and above all, indispensable book for businesses and the C-suite alike!”

    Kirthi Mani, Managing Principal of New York, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP)

  • “If your payroll carries the permanent expense of a senior player for every position, here's an alternative way to populate your C suite. Adopt this cunningly simple idea, and your line up in the Boardroom should become more diverse, more agile, and a lot less bloated.”

    Richard Hytner, Blue Hat Man, Adjunct Professor of Marketing, London Business School and Author, Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows

  • “Based on a combination of over 20 years of experience and solid academic research, Sara Daw paints a compelling picture of a new business model for the deployment of C-suite executives. A must read both for people engaging C-suite executives and for C-suite executives that want to gain a new perspective on their career and their life!”

    Wim Van der Smissen, Portfolio CFO

  • “Within professional services, as Sara highlights, we are increasingly experiencing the continued rise of the access economy as organisations, small and large, supplement their teams with required expertise and capacity, and professionals choose a flexible career and make lifestyle choices. This excellent book challenges us as leaders to think about the organisation of the future.”

    Mark Britton, Chief Operating Officer of Global Consulting, JMJ

  • “Fractional execs are a secret superpower that most CEOs and boards haven’t discovered yet, but for those that are considering embarking on this journey, this book provides both a map and a compass.”

    David Jack, Serial CTO, Board Member and PE Advisor

  • “Converging workforce trends are fuelling the most squeezed labour markets since WWII. Organisational staffing needs an urgent reboot for optimal resilience and prosperity. Sara Daw presents a proven method of accessing ‘on-demand’ leadership expertise that no CEO can afford to overlook.”

    Cat Barnard, Director, Working the Future

  • “As someone who has worked as a fractional CFO for a number of years, I can attest to the C-suite burnout which Sara so eloquently describes, and how this new way of working is definitely the way forward for C-suite individuals.”

    Dax Mehta, Part-time CFO and Former CFO Sony Pictures Distribution

Executive Freedom: How to Escape the C-Suite, Create Income Security, and Take Back Control by Building a Part-Time Portfolio Career

Colin Mills & Sara Daw

  • Sometimes the thing we fear most is the thing that sets us free …

    Have you reached a point in your career where your role as a C-suite Executive just isn’t working for you anymore? Have you sacrificed personal freedom for the comfort and perceived security of a full-time executive job? Do you long to do exciting, rewarding, and inspiring work—work that fits around your lifestyle choices—without having to sacrifice your income?

    What if there were a way for you to offer your unique ability to just a handful of these organisations to help them thrive while getting paid handsomely in return? Executive Freedom lays out a clear path to a highly engaging and rewarding portfolio lifestyle.

    Ironically, this approach gives you greater financial security than working for a single employer.