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

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