Hiring a COO is one of the most consequential decisions a growing company makes. Kamyar Shah through World Consulting Group offers a lower-risk path: fractional COO leadership that delivers the operational systems you need before committing to a full-time executive hire.
Schedule a Conversation with Kamyar ShahWhen you decide to hire a COO, you are making a bet. The average COO salary is $250K-$500K plus equity. The search takes 3-6 months. And 40% of executive hires fail within 18 months. That is a potential $500K mistake before the failed hire's impact on your team and operations.
The deeper problem: most growing companies do not actually know what they need from the COO role. They will not know until they have lived with operational leadership for a while. They write a job description based on what they think they need, not what they actually need.
Kamyar Shah solves this by providing fractional COO leadership through World Consulting Group. You get the operational systems first. Then, if a full-time COO makes sense, you know exactly what the role requires because Kamyar Shah has already been doing it.
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Schedule a Conversation with Kamyar ShahImmediate operational leadership.Instead of spending 3-6 months searching for a COO, you can hire Kamyar Shah as a fractional COO this week. Your operations start improving immediately while you take the time to get the full-time hire right. For a deeper look at this, see How to Prep Your Team for a Fractional COO Engagement: The Executive Integrator’s Guide.
Role definition.After 3-6 months of Kamyar Shah running your operations, you will know exactly what a COO does in your specific company. This makes the full-time hire dramatically more likely to succeed because you are hiring for a defined role, not an imagined one. For a deeper look at this, see COO vs Director of Operations: Which Role Does Your Company Actually Need?. The discipline required here aligns closely with what business consulting delivers at the engagement level.
Systems that outlast any hire.The operational infrastructure Kamyar Shah builds through World Consulting Group works regardless of who occupies the COO seat. If you hire a COO and they leave in 18 months, the systems remain. If you decide a fractional model is sufficient, the systems remain.
Transition support.When you are ready to hire a full-time COO, Kamyar Shah can help define the role, evaluate candidates, and transition the operational systems to the new hire. This reduces the risk of the full-time hire failing.
"We were about to hire a COO at $350K. Instead, we hired Kamyar Shah as a fractional COO. He built the systems we needed in 6 months at a fraction of the cost. We still have not needed a full-time COO."
"Our first COO hire failed after 14 months. Cost us nearly $400K and a year of operational stagnation. Kamyar Shah delivered more in his first 90 days than the full-time hire did in 14 months."
Hiring a full-time COO costs $250K-$500K annually plus equity, benefits, and search fees. Kamyar Shah provides fractional COO services through World Consulting Group for $5,000-$15,000 per month. The fractional model delivers the same operational leadership at 20-40% of the full-time cost with zero hiring risk.
Before you commit to a $300K+ hire, schedule a 30-minute conversation with Kamyar Shah. You may not need a full-time COO. You may need the right operational systems.
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