Hands-on operating support for owners who need to stabilize, professionalize, or bridge leadership capacity — without hiring a full-time C-suite executive before you're ready.
Manufacturing, industrial, and B2B companies in the Midwest & Nationwide.
A fractional COO gives you senior operating horsepower right when the business needs it, sized to what you actually need.
You're the bottleneck, and operations stall when you step away.
Growth has outrun your systems, rhythms, and accountability.
A leadership gap needs bridging while you hire or develop a successor.
The business needs to be professionalized ahead of a transition or sale.
An experienced manufacturing executive working inside your business to move it forward.
Senior operating leadership on a part-time basis — running cadence, driving priorities, and taking real work off your plate.
Turning plans into follow-through: accountability, decision-rights, and the day-to-day discipline that makes things happen.
Installing the KPIs, operating rhythms, SOPs, and management structure the business can run on after I step back.
Get inside the operation, identify the bottlenecks, and stabilize what's most urgent.
Focus effort on the few moves that most improve capacity and control.
Install operating rhythms, decision structures, KPIs, and management accountability.
Hand the operating system to your team or successor so it runs without me.
Meet the operator
Shaun McCarren is a family-business owner himself — he's run a company, met a payroll, and lived the operating realities the owners he works with face every day. He digs into the operations side: ERP systems, best practices, and AI, bringing an outside set of eyes that spots the tweaks that add real value or cut substantial cost.
He pairs that hands-on operating experience with a formal finance education, filling the gap that usually sits between an owner's attorney and accountant.
"I have worked with Shaun since July 2007. He has delivered at or near 100% on-time and complete. His communication and organization skills are excellent, and he delivers a great product and service."
Tell us a little about the business and where you're stuck. We'll come to the intro call with a concrete view of how an engagement could be scoped — no pressure, no obligation.
Start with a confidential conversation about where the business is stuck and what an engagement could look like.
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