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Fractional & Outsourcing - COO

Fractional & Outsourcing

B2B GovCon III

B2B Member

Heather is a strategic, growth-focused executive with deep experience across the Intelligence, National Security, Federal Civilian, and technology sectors. As a Fractional COO, she partners with founder-led GovCon companies to maximize revenue, strengthen margins, and operationalize strategy for scalable growth. Her fractional C-suite services help bridge the gap between a founder’s vision and organizational execution by translating strategy into clear priorities, repeatable processes, and scalable operating systems while working alongside CEOs and leadership teams.Heather brings a diverse executive background that includes serving as COO for GovCon middle-market companies with revenues exceeding $50M, General Manager with full P&L responsibility for a $175M organization with 700 employees across five international offices, and CFO of a nonprofit organization operating in East Africa.She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.Raised in Idaho, Heather broadened her global perspective during a gap semester in India, launched her career in California, and now resides in Virginia.

Transformative Partners, LLC

CEO

1375 Cameron Heath Drive

Reston

Virginia

20194

Fractional COO for GovCon—embedding execution discipline, financial rigor, and scalable growth across your organization.As a Fractional COO, I help GovCon firms scale with discipline—bringing financial, operational, and execution discipline to how revenue is delivered and converted into profit. Engagements begin with a focused diagnostic across contracts, margins, and pipeline to identify the highest-impact opportunities combined with direct input from leadership on current constraints and priorities.A Fractional COO brings executive leadership to drive execution, not just advise. Working alongside the CEO and team, I operationalize strategy, embed discipline, and deliver measurable results. From diagnosing constraints to leading implementation and building lasting capability, this hands-on role turns strategy into scalable, profitable execution across contracts, margins, joint ventures, and PMO.✅Accelerate On-Contract Growth✅Expand Margins✅Plan for Small Business Graduation✅Strengthen Joint Venture Operations✅Mature Program Management Office (PMO)The firms that address these challenges early scale. Those that don’t often plateau or lose momentum at critical growth stages. I establish clear visibility from pipeline to backlog to cash, accelerating contract growth while elevating Program Managers’ business development capabilities. Our work operationalizes strategy through Program Managers—where most execution risk and opportunity lives. Disciplined execution becomes a measurable competitive advantage—visible in margin, growth, and cash.

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Government Contractor with revenue between $10M and $40M without an operations executive and the CEO recognizes operations need more attention than s/he has capacity to dedicate to them.

50-250

$15-$50M