I welcome Ben Rickard to my podcast. Ben is an experienced interim and fractional CDO, a NED and advisor with an expert domain knowledge in marketing, digital, data and tech. Ben and I have been discussing the interim and fractional space for a while, and I am glad he found the time to record his ideas around this exciting and growing space. Things we discussed:
- CDO: data or digital officer
- Ben being a NED to parliament (not the government)
- Teams with different super powers
- His urge to get involved and do things
- Launching on his own during the pandemic
- Value proposition
- Taking the risk of going out on your own
- Confidence
- Networking with people and selling yourself
- Delivering a proof of concept before getting paid
- How to overcome the hurdle of selling oneself (as a non sales guy)
- How to utilise LinkedIn for winning business
- The learning of going through the process of setting up on your own
- Variety and lifestyle choice of being an interim and fractional CxO
- Being able to choose: from interim to full time to consultant - a career is fluid
- Portfolio Career and labelling of services
- The Portfolio Collective: https://portfolio-collective.com
- The value add of an interim / fractional leader to start- and scale-ups
- Expert networks
- Smart people who hire (people like) us😉
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrickard/
- Website: https://www.benrickard.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.