When You Need Additional Leadership

But not another full-time executive 

I step into growing and changing organizations when the people side of the business isn’t keeping pace — strengthening leadership capacity and getting people pulling in the same direction.

Leadership Capacity & Organizational Alignment

Let’s meet over coffee and talk about your organization, your people, and where growth may be stretching your leadership capacity.

Hi, I'm Chris Waugh

Executive-for-Hire

For more than 30 years, I’ve helped organizations navigate the challenges that come with growth and change. As an organization grows, people, roles, and priorities don’t always stay aligned. Leaders get stretched, responsibilities overlap, communication breaks down, and teams can find themselves working hard—but not necessarily pulling in the same direction.

That’s where I come in. As an executive-for-hire, I step into your organization and become part of your team, bringing experienced leadership where it’s needed most. I help create clarity and alignment, strengthen accountability, support managers and teams, and make sure the priorities that matter have the leadership behind them to move forward.

What I Do

Where do You Need More Leadership Capacity?

Stalled Priorities

You regain momentum on priorities that have been sitting on the back burner.

Leadership Gaps

You gain experienced executive leadership without adding a full-time position.

Organizational Change

Your team navigates change with clarity, stability, and confidence.

Strategic Projects

Your most important initiatives move from planning to execution.

From Drifting to Moving Forward

A nonprofit organization had committed people and an important mission, but lacked the structure to keep important work moving forward. Chris stepped in to provide focus, organization and follow-through — helping the group regain direction and turn good intentions into progress.

“You’ve been the glue which has kept us together and focused… Without your determination we would have continued to drift.” — George Plant

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