Fractional Growth Leadership | Silverbranch Praxis (SBX)
Your team is working.
Your growth isn’t.
3 Ways SBX fills the gap.
Fractional growth leadership for founders and executives who need
senior-level clarity – without the cost, risk or delay of a full-time hire.
BANDWIDTH FOR INITIATIVES Some initiatives are too important to delay and too specific to justify a full-time hire. A new market, a new revenue model, a system or workflow that needs building – Silverbranch provides the senior bandwidth to drive it without adding permanent headcount.
SENIOR CAPABILITY AT FRACTIONAL COST. The work requires senior-level thinking. The budget doesn’t support a full-time salary. Silverbranch sits in that gap – bringing cross-functional leadership to organizations that need it now, at a commitment level that matches their needs.
STABILITY THROUGH TRANSITION. When a senior leader exits, momentum doesn’t have to. Silverbranch steps in immediately to maintain continuity – keeping strategy moving, teams aligned, and growth on track while the organization determines its next permanent step.
15+
Years Cross-Functional Leadership
5
Functions Across Growth System
2
Regions – North America and South Asia
$1K
Starting Engagement
African Bridge Network | John Lavoy Training | World Education Services | Clark University
You already know what’s missing. The question is how to fill it.
Maybe a senior role is open and the work can’t stall. Maybe you have an initiative that needs experienced hands but not a permanent seat. Or maybe your team needs cross-functional leadership at a level the budget doesn’t yet support full-time. Fractional growth leadership gives you a way to move forward with clarity and intention. Not a stopgap. A deliberate choice.
Learn more about how we engage >We find what’s holding growth back. Then we build the systems to resolve it.
Three phases, one integrated motion.
Brian Kostantin – Growth Architect
Two decades across finance, marketing, sales, and customer experience – leading growth at the VP and C-suite level for mission-driven organizations, founders, and institutional teams.
Clients, colleagues and collaborators.
“I’ve had the privilege of working alongside Brian, and I can confidently say he is one of the most exceptional leaders I’ve encountered through my career. Brian has the rare ability to build and lead high-performing teams across every function – business development, growth marketing, customer service and beyond.”
“Brian is an amazing leader. He never veers from obstacles, instead meets them head on. Brian is a solutions focused individual who always finds a way to meets his objectives. [He] is a charismatic leader who has a gift in motivating others”
“…one of the most dynamic and grounded leaders I’ve known. He’s led teams across operations, marketing, sales and customer experience, often through periods of major change and transition…”
“[Brian] has applied his strategic planning skills and business savvy to help our non-profit manage turbulent times, developing new offers and pursuing new funding sources.”
Ways We Engage
Tailored to your stage. Built around your reality.
Every engagement is scoped to your needs. Start where it makes sense.
SBX Strategic Assessment™
$1K+
per engagement
A focused, time-bound diagnostic designed to help you see clearly before you invest deeply. For organizations that sense misalignment or stalled momentum but need objective, systems-level perspective to determine what needs attention now. Fee may be applied to a monthly engagement
SBX Early Roots Program™
$3K+
per month
A bespoke foundational monthly package built to fit your needs and budget. Project-based initiatives designed to capture early signals in your brand, customer journey, and growth system — giving you clarity, direction, and tailored advisory support to build real momentum.
Extended Partnership – From $6K/month
SBX Strategic Alignment™
Deepens strategy, sharpens messaging, and strengthens your customer journey with ongoing senior-level guidance.
SBX Activation Architecture™
Hands-on execution partnership that advances key initiatives and brings your GTM and growth systems to life.
SBX Executive Leadership™
High-touch fractional CMO/CGO/VP leadership guiding strategy, aligning teams, and accelerating execution.
Growth Systems Intensive™
Time-bound executive alignment engagement to clarify tradeoffs and establish operating priorities.
All extended partnerships require a 3-month minimum engagement. View the full engagement comparison chart >
Common Questions
Good Questions. Straight Answers.
What does a fractional growth leader do?
A fractional growth leader brings senior-level strategy and execution to your organization on a part-time basis. At Silverbranch, that means diagnosing where growth is breaking down, designing the systems to fix it, and staying involved long enough to make sure the work holds – without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive hire. Fractional leadership is a growing model across North America. The Harvard Business Review has covered the shift toward flexible executive models.
How is this different from hiring a marketing agency?
Agencies execute within a function. Silverbranch works across functions – marketing, sales, CX, and operations – to find where they are misaligned and build the connective tissue between them. If your problem lives inside one channel, an agency may be the right call. If your problem is that the channels or teams are not talking to each other, that is a growth architecture problem.
When should I consider fractional growth leadership?
When a senior role is vacant and the work cannot stall. When an initiative needs experienced leadership, but does not justify a permanent hire. When the budget does not yet support a full-time salary but the work requires senior-level thinking. The SBX Strategic Assessment™ is designed precisely to help navigate that decision.
What is “experience debt” and how does it affect growth?
Experience debt is the accumulating cost of misaligned people, systems, and decisions across the customer journey. It shows up as rising customer acquisition costs, stalling conversion, and teams that are working hard but not moving the number. Left unresolved, it becomes the ceiling on durable growth. Silverbranch identifies where it lives and builds the systems to resolve it.
How quickly can we get started?
Discovery calls are typically available within a week. The Strategic Assessment can begin within two weeks of a signed agreement. Monthly retainer engagements are scoped during the discovery process and typically launch within three to four weeks. Nothing is open-ended – each stage has a clear starting point so you know what to expect before committing to the next one.
Do you work with nonprofit organizations or social enterprises?
Yes. Silverbranch works with nonprofit, social enterprises, and for-profit organizations. Nonprofit engagements typically focus on organizational inflection, stalled earned revenue, or leadership transition. For-profit engagements typically focus on growth ceilings and scaling systems. The entry point for both is the same – a focused Strategic Assessment before any deeper commitment is made.
How do you measure success and what does ROI look like for a fractional growth engagement?
We establish shared growth indicators at the outset, tied to the specific transition or opportunity you are navigating. Progress is tracked against those markers, not against hours logged, so accountability stays aligned with outcomes rather than activity.
What does an engagement with Silverbranch actually look like day to day?
Engagements vary by need, but typically involve a diagnostic phase to surface experience debt and growth gaps, followed by structured working sessions with leadership, and ongoing advisory presence calibrated to your pace. Brian embeds where the work is, not just at the executive level.
Do I need to choose between fractional support and hiring a full-time growth executive?
Not at all. Some engagements run alongside an active search to map systems, document what exists, and make the incremental adjustments that can’t wait for a new leader to be identified, hired and ramped-up. When your next executive arrives, they inherit a cleaner operation and a shorter runway to impact. For organizations that aren’t yet ready for a permanent hire, Silverbranch can carry the function until the right person is in place.
Growth doesn’t stall without a reason. Let’s find yours.
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