Not long ago, Tiffany Putland traded a steady paycheck in management at one of the state’s largest companies for a patchwork of part-time gigs.
No regrets.
“I’ve never been happier professionally to be honest,” she said. “I make my own schedule, choose my clients. It’s just a way of life that’s really, really nice.”
Putland is now one of hundreds of fractional professionals in the Twin Cities — an emerging term often used to describe experienced leaders offering high-level skills on a part-time basis for up to a year, typically.
For small and growing firms across a range of industries, that means access to talent they can’t afford, or don’t yet need, at a full-time level.
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