Your program is off track.
I fix it from inside the work.
Fractional program leadership for regulated industries. I embed with your team, fix what's broken, and stay until it ships.
John Tillery · Fractional Program Executive
Is this you?
I work best with teams experiencing these challenges:
- Your transformation is 6+ months behind schedule
- Your last consultant handed you a deck and disappeared
- You've cycled through multiple PMs or contractors
- Leadership is losing confidence in the program
- You need senior delivery help, not more junior staff
- You're in a regulated industry where failure isn't an option
- You're working under federal or state regulatory requirements with real accountability for outcomes
- Your program involves multiple agencies, vendors, or clinical stakeholders with no single owner
If two or more of these are true, your program needs intervention, not a proposal. Let's talk this week.
Book a Free 30-Min CallMost Common Entry Point
Fix a stalled program
When a program is off track, I deploy rapidly to diagnose root causes and stabilize delivery. I embed with your team, work in your tools, and drive execution until the work ships.
Most clients come to me when something is already broken. The good news: that's when I do my best work.
Past engagements include a compliance program that had cycled through three PMs in eighteen months, a cross-functional digital initiative that had lost executive confidence, and a governance overhaul for a regulated-industry team with no visibility into their own delivery. All recovered and shipped.
Learn About RecoveryTypical Engagement
- 01Week 1-2: Rapid diagnostic and root cause analysis
- 02Week 2-4: Stabilization and re-baselining
- 03Ongoing: Embedded delivery until completion
Other Ways I Help
Lead Ongoing Delivery
Fractional execution leadership for programs that need senior capacity without full-time overhead.
Learn morePlan Before Execution
Set up governance, stakeholder alignment, and operating rhythms before the work begins.
Learn moreBuild Lasting Capability
Strengthen your operating model and train your team to sustain it independently.
Learn moreI limit active engagements to 2–3 at a time to ensure every client gets principal-level attention. If you're evaluating whether now is the right time, it's worth having the conversation before capacity fills.
How Engagements Work
Two ways to work together
Most clients start with a recovery engagement, then transition to ongoing advisory. But every situation is different.
Embedded Delivery
10-20 hrs/weekI join your team as a fractional execution leader, working in your tools and attending your meetings. Best for active recovery or complex delivery.
Typical engagement: 3-6 months
Retained Advisory
5-10 hrs/monthOngoing strategic counsel on program governance, risk management, and organizational readiness. Best for prevention or post-recovery support.
Typical engagement: Monthly retainer
Industry Focus
How I'm different from traditional consultants
You get me, not a team
Every engagement is principal-led. No juniors learning on your dime, no subcontractors.
In the work, not above it
I join your standups, use your tools, and share accountability for your timelines. I deliver conclusions in conversations, not slide decks.
I stay until it ships
Engagements end when the work is done, not when hours run out.
What Clients Say
"John diagnosed the root cause in the first two weeks, something we'd been circling for six months. He was in our standups, in our tools, and fully accountable to our timelines. The program shipped on his watch."
VP of Digital Transformation, Healthcare Sector
About
Why I do this work
My background is in leading multinational programs in regulated industries. I've managed cross-functional teams across complex regulatory environments, built governance systems that scale, and delivered critical initiatives where failure wasn't an option. I remain deeply active in this work today.
I founded Ordinate because I kept encountering the same execution failures in organizations beyond my own. The gap between strategy and delivery isn't a resource problem. It's a model problem: the people who design the strategy aren't accountable for making it work.
Through Ordinate, I take on a small number of fractional leadership engagements. I'm selective because my capacity is limited and because every client deserves full attention. If we work together, you get me. Not a junior associate, not a subcontractor.
Based in Holly Springs, NC
Connect on LinkedInLet's fix your program.
Most engagements start with a 30-minute conversation. No pitch, no obligation. Just a focused discussion about your challenges and where I might help.
Or email me directly at hello@ordinate.consulting