When a plan alone will not rescue the business. It needs someone in the seat.
A business in trouble rarely needs another diagnosis. It needs a seasoned operator with the authority to act, starting this month.
What a Miami business in difficulty is usually up against
Rarely one thing. Almost always several at once:
Cash visibility measured in days
No one can say where cash will stand in six weeks, so every choice is a gamble.
Currency or a customer turned
A swing in an exchange rate or the loss of one buyer in another country removes the margin the plan relied on.
Owners abroad losing patience
A family or investor in another country wants a plan and answers, and the local team cannot give either.
The owner is too close
Not a criticism. It is the reason an outsider is the answer.
We match operators who have already guided a business through a crisis. They take the chair, steady the cash, rebuild the plan and hold the talks the owner cannot manage alone. When the business is stable the arrangement ends cleanly.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- A cash crisis that needs visibility and control now
- A business in operational or financial distress
- Lender or investor pressure that needs a credible plan
- A leadership vacuum that has stalled key decisions
- Stabilising the business before planning recovery
Not for
- A business that only needs advice or a written report
- A situation whose primary need is a formal insolvency practitioner
- A stable business planning improvements at its own pace
- A one-off review with no mandate to act
Steady leadership when cash is short
A recovery needs one operator who can act and a frame around the work. We find the operator and keep the frame in place.
Frequent reviews during the recovery
We check in often with you and the executive while the pressure is on, and tell you quickly if the plan slips.
Specialists on call
Your executive is backed by a collective of 800+. A cash question that turns out to be about a lender finds someone who has negotiated with one.
No stall if someone leaves
Should your executive need to leave, the recovery plan stays with us, a new search begins from it and we handle the transition.
Calm under pressure
In a hard stretch, a calm and fair operator matters more than a title. Temperament leads our match.
The turnaround engagement
Each engagement moves from crisis to recovery with structured urgency.
Rapid assessment (week 1)
Financial position, operational status, commercial pipeline and team capability, mapped with a structured diagnostic framework.
Priority triage (week 2)
The 3–5 interventions that will have the most impact on stabilisation are identified and begun. Ruthless prioritisation.
Stabilisation (weeks 3–8)
Cash flow is visible and managed. Acute operational failures resolved. Lenders or investors briefed with a credible recovery narrative.
Recovery (month 2 onwards)
Processes rebuilt. Commercial momentum recovered. Financial infrastructure strengthened. Business guided from crisis to sustainable operation.
Turnaround triage
The leadership a situation calls for depends on where the business is breaking.
The roles a turnaround usually calls for.
For a complex turnaround, we can deploy more than one operator at once and layer in further specialists as recovery progresses.
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The questions buyers ask first
Fractional Miami provides operational and executive leadership support. Where a situation requires insolvency, legal, restructuring or regulated financial advice, we work alongside the appropriate specialist advisers.
