Your firm has outgrown its infrastructure. We build what's missing.
Fractional operational leadership for professional services firms — governance, AI, sales engineering, team building, and more — without hiring a VP for every function.
Professional services firms between 50 and 300 people hit an inflection point. You're too large to run on instinct and spreadsheets, but too small to staff a full leadership bench.
Your best people are stretched thin, operational debt piles up, and growth stalls — or becomes chaotic.
Dale Simpson Consulting embeds with professional services firms as a fractional operational leader. We see across the entire business, identify the highest-leverage gaps, and build what's needed — from standing up new functions to deploying AI agents that automate real work. The deliverable is never a slide deck. It's a working system that runs after we leave.
How We Work
Assess
We start by understanding where you are and where the leverage is. Our assessments evaluate your operational maturity and identify the highest-impact opportunities — including where AI can create the most value.
Learn more →Build
We stand up the capabilities your firm needs — product management, governance, sales engineering, AI-powered automation, team restructuring — with defined deliverables and a clear endpoint.
Learn more →Lead
For firms that need sustained operational leadership across the business, we embed as a fractional leader — shifting focus to wherever the firm needs attention most.
Learn more →A 40-year-old professional services firm. New ownership. An ambition to scale from tens of millions to hundreds of millions. In a single engagement, we:
- Built six new operational capabilities from scratch
- Deployed AI agents that automated project governance and bulk process assessment
- Delivered a SOC2-ready compliance program
- Redesigned hiring to measurably improve candidate quality
- Moved the dev team from AI-assisted to AI-accelerated delivery
Dale Simpson's leadership was transformative for both our team and my personal development. He has a unique ability to identify potential where it might not be immediately apparent. His strategic insights and commitment to development tapped into the leaders in all of us.