Support your team with an experienced strategy coach

Fractional Chief Strategy Officer

  • Right Customer Focus

    The right customer will grow your business, while the wrong customers will destroy its value. NEOs are the right customers—the driving force behind many of the world’s most successful brands. Tap into Proven Research—built on over 800,000 consumer voices from three continents.

  • Retail Media Evolution

    Traditional media offerings by Retailers to their suppliers are becoming less favoured by consumers. At the same time, Digital Media advertising is starting to saturate with users, advertisers and “scroll-time” which means the true cost of acquisition has risen significantly. A Retail Media strategy provides an opportunity for all Retailers to evolve their capability around media and align better solutions tailored to support their supplier’s brand objectives.

  • Econometric Media Modelling

    Measurement of the impact of marketing and advertising campaigns to determine how various elements contribute to their goal. Statistical analysis performed by Media Mix Modeling (MMM) uses multi-linear regression to determine the relationship between the dependent variable, such as sales or engagements, and the independent variables, such as ad spend across channels. MMM can use both linear and non-linear regression methods to determine how increased marketing spend on in one medium affected overall sales.

  • Omni-Channel Acceleration

    An omni-channel approach creates a seamless experience for customers both online and in-store. By integrating customer data across platforms, you are able to offer personalized recommendations, track purchases, and enhance engagement through lower friction experiences that build long-term customer loyalty.

  • AI - Hype vs Reality

    “It’s life Jim but not as we know it” ; How does the practical evolution of AI impact your business both internally and externally. AI in 2025 is where the internet was in 1996 but it is likely get to to where the internet is now twice as fast. In the next five to ten years, the impact of AI Agents on the world of SaaS/business applications that currently manage the logic in your business databases will be significant. However, separating the hype from the reality will be critical to navigating the next generation of industry technology.

  • Store Development & Design

    Your physical store lies at the heart of brand story. It is what defines your purpose as a retail brand. The right store design can bring lustre and conviction to your brands purpose more than any advertising could ever achieve.

  • Store Teams Engagement

    All shoppers in your store are exclusively yours and its your Salespeople who ultimately make you exclusive. They are your greatest advocate. Your salespeople must aspire beyond effective order takers into passionate experts. Inspiring your internal audience is essential to converting shoppers into loyal customers.

  • Workshop Facilitation

    Facilitating regular leadership summits, brainstorming sessions, and business reviews.

  • Conference Keynote

    Scott offers an ever-evolving array of cutting edge and compelling topics, that can be tailored for your business audience.

  • Acquisition Target Analysis

    Identify the customer and strategic synergy opportunities for your brand in your suite of target acquisitions.

  • New Acquisition Envoy

    Independently facilitate your broader strategic objectives with recently acquired businesses whilst assisting those recently acquired businesses with communicating their objectives.

  • Pure Play - Consolidate or Diversify

    100% Direct to Customer (ie 100% Online) models provide brands with a low barrier to entry, a more agile responsiveness to market conditions, a lower risk capital requirement and a great way to position themselves for growth. However, as traditional retailers master the omni-channel space and mega market place platforms invade the digital media space, new customer acquisition to offset churn is becoming increasingly more expensive. Navigating this model tension for your brand with the best strategy requires new thinking about the wicked choice between the pitfalls of digital media acquisition vs high risk of physical store enablement.

  • Market Exploration & Foundation

    Whether planning to arrive or recently arrived, successful international retail brands with limited Australian operating experience succeed through adapting their international business to local nuances in logistics and culture. Helping your local team understand the importance of the broader international strategy and convert their knowledge into the right outcomes is a critical step.

Details

FREE Consultation

FREE Initial consultation up to 90min to understand your needs, objectives and determine service viability for your business.

Availability

Up to 18 hours per month per person contact availability for meetings, data analysis and one to one coaching support.

Service Fee

The Fee is lesser of $800 + GST per hour per person or $7,500 + GST per month per person. Minimum 5 hours per month. Travel expenses by negotiation.

Monthly Update

The service fee includes a monthly CEO update of wins, challenges, risks and opportunities.

The only source of knowledge is experience.
— Albert Einstein

Retaining a Fractional Chief Strategy Officer (FCSO) embeds a temporary, highly skilled, strategic partner with the broader remit to help the management team shape their own strategy and institute the disciplines needed to deliver it. The leadership team does not hand over responsibility for business strategy, but is better able to manage it with the support of another executive leader who steps in when needed.

Investing in the right kind of support is important, and the solution should conform to fit both the problem at hand and your firm’s available resources. Building a dedicated, internal strategy team with experienced, high caliber talent takes time and may not be financially feasible, particularly for smaller businesses. Additionally, short term projects outsourced to large consulting firms can be too narrow in scope and end with a hand-off back to management. Engagement with an FCSO offers the benefit of a potentially long-term relationship with a single executive, providing consistency over time at substantially lower cost.

Scott has successfully navigated the internal and external challenges that can disrupt a strategic plan and has mobilized a business to achieve it. Insights from this experiences can be applied to your businesses to streamline and de-risk the delivery of the business strategy.

Some of these activities could include:

  • Supporting business leaders in their strategic thinking, providing an alternative set of eyes on new ideas and thoughtful perspectives on how to move forward with them.

  • Coordinating annual or multi-year strategic planning with best-in-class processes, including monthly or quarterly updates to ensure the strategy remains on track.

  • Introducing new competitive intelligence, performance monitoring, and analytical practices to enhance business management while building the capability to produce internally.

  • Helping to stand up new business initiatives and strategic change programs with the project management and governance disciplines necessary to execute them effectively.

  • Providing on-demand support when needed to quickly respond to unexpected challenges with an executive familiar with your business.

  • Serving as an on-call, independent sounding board on key business decisions.

  • Facilitating regular leadership summits, brainstorming sessions, and business reviews.

The right FCSO can offer C-Suite caliber bandwidth in a flexible, potentially long-term engagement. With an FCSO onboard, even the leanest management teams can continue to focus on running their business without sacrificing their ability to keep their business strategy fit for the future. A firm’s leadership team gains an accessible, reliable resource when needed to keep thinking fresh and the long-term trajectory of the business on track, without the cost of a full time senior executive hire.

If access to executive-level strategic talent would help your business.  We can assist with expert advice and lean consulting support - when you need it - to solve complex problems and plan for the future of their business.  In additional to these general activities, Scott has particular subject matter expertise in the following areas; Right Customer Focus, Econometric Media Mix Modelling, Omni-Channel Acceleration and Store Development & Design. Additionally, we have access to a team of seasoned subject matter specialists who can be seconded on a casual basis when necessary.

More Solutions

Tailored Strategic Plan

Four day initial engagement that includes market analysis, insight into your competitors arrowhead customers, industry trend update, team workshop, one page strategic framework, key initiative proposal, aligned operating model blueprint and three quarterly reviews.

Tailored International Retail Safari

Experience a specially curated tour for your organization to discover and explore the driving forces changing retail around the world today. See and explore the best of retail innovation in Tokyo, Singapore, London, New York City, Paris & Madrid.

Meet Scott

Scott Browning is an accomplished ASX100 C-suite executive with over 30 years experience leading corporate marketing, sales, operations and internal communications for iconic brands across retail and consumer discretionary industries in Australia & New Zealand. He has extensive industry insights and experience in Fashion, Technology, Entertainment, Automotive and Consumer Packaged Goods.

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