Innovation and Leadership Team Lead | Strategically connecting Corporates and their Leaders with Startups I Connectd

Connectd works with individuals looking to build fractional careers through board advisor, non-executive director and fractional c-suite roles.

Through the Connectd platform, we help both active and aspiring fractionals access networking and fractional opportunities, CPD-accredited training and mentoring.

In turn, we support businesses in overcoming their biggest challenges through strategic fractional support to help take them to the next level!

Connectd also works with leading Venture Capital firms, including Fuel Ventures, Haatch & Antler, as well as wider ecosystems, such as Startup Grind & Barclays Eagle Labs, to support their startups to build their boards and move the needle on core business metrics.

If you’d like to explore opportunities, feel free to email me at: will.s@connectd.co

William Smith

James Dixon

At Connectd, we work with fractional executives looking to build careers through fractional c-suite, non-executive and board advisor roles with high-growth startups across the UK and US. 

Through the Connectd platform, we help current and aspiring fractional executives access opportunities, CPD-accredited training, mentoring, and exclusive community access within our growing community. Key focus areas include:

Facilitating pro bono placements with startups & scaleups
Learn the fundamental skills, behaviours and attitudes of a board advisor, fractional and NED roles across this 8-module programme
Work with expert mentors spanning over 60 sectors, matched to your skills
Upskill through webinars, roundtable discussions, and thought-leadership sessions

Interested? Send me a message to explore more about your eligibility for Connectd.

Performance Acquisition Manager

4 people in shot who I owe a huge amount to over the last 3 years of my life. 

Over lunch last Sunday in Mexico City Roei Samuel asked if me I'd ever paused to think about how my work has impacted the lives of other people & in turn the lives of the people they encounter...

Haven't stopped thinking about that since, it really gave me a solid reason to get after it each day. Well, another really great one to add to the list at least! 

#impact #compound #rippleeffect

Jim Dixon

Head of People | Performance Coach | Empowering organisations and talent to transition into and succeed in the future of fractional work

CEO @ Connectd | $14M ARR | #5 LinkedIn Top Startups | #18 SundayTimes100 | Ex-RealSport Founder (acquired)

Connectd launched in Jan 2022 so we just hit 4 years. 

We've grown a lot in that time in every sense of the word! Were servicing over 6000 fractional execs/board advisors and 3200 organisations!

And if you know anything about growing  business, servicing 9k customers, whilst growing from a team of 4 to over 100, and from $0 to $15m ARR, including now 40% of customers coming from the US, you know how difficult this is.

At this scale you cannot keep everyone happy,  but with literally thousands and thousands of customers renewing we know we are on the right track

its not always been perfect, its not always been pretty  but we will never stop fighting to make Connectd the most powerful force in the future of work.

JUST. GETTING. STARTED.

James Matthews Oliver Tarpey Claudia Stankler Spyros Balampekos FCCA Benjamin Parker Clement Bigot Jamie Morris Alex Rose Samuel Gray William Smith

Is it your time to take a leap of faith?
  
Placing trust in yourself rarely works out badly, some huge lessons to be learned. 

The future is fractional.

Building personal brands for CEOs and Founders 🔥 Founder @ HUNTRS 💸 Startup & GTM Advisor 📈 From 0 → $30M ARR | ex-LinkedIn & ex-Remote 🦄 Helped 4,900+ people build their personal brand

The career you know is dying. Here’s what comes next.

The world is changing fast in front of our eyes.

The old model of work is losing its grip:

- One employer
- One income stream
- A linear career ladder

That ladder is shaking heavily.

→ Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) says the 9-to-5 job will disappear by 2034.
→ Naval Ravikant (investor and entrepreneur) says most people will end up working for themselves.
→ Gary Vee calls it "individual empires".
→ And Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that AI could wipe out half of all entry level white collar roles.

Look around you:

- Companies are getting leaner
- Teams are smaller
- Unemployment rates are higher than ever
- Output expectations are higher
- AI is taking entire layers of work off the table
- More and more people are taking on fractional roles and works for several companies

→ McKinsey predicts that up to 70% percent of business tasks will be automated to some degree by 2030.

→ LinkedIn’s own data shows a rise in multi stream earners year over year.

→ OECD predicts: by 2030, half of all professionals will have a portfolio career.

❌ This is not a trend.

And this is not about everyone having to become an entrepreneur.

It’s a complete reset of the market, and how the world works.

A redefinition of what a career looks like.

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The future is a portfolio career.

❌ A portfolio career is not about doing more.
✅ It’s about using what you already know in ways that scale.

It works like this:

1. You monetize your knowledge.
2. You sell it through more than one channel.
3. You build more than one stream so your risk goes down and your upside grows.
4. You stop trading every hour for income.

This is the closest thing we have to job security in a world shaped by automation.

This is for:

- Every knowledge worker.
- Every founder.
- Every specialist with a skill that solves a problem.

The people who win the next decade will be the ones who build their own system ♻️

The most important tool to achieve it?

Build a strong personal brand on social media.

Stop postponing it.

Get started today.


📌 I put the exact steps I took into a clear guide. If you want to start now, this will help: https://lnkd.in/dCsWGSG7

📌 The Future is a Portfolio Career

In case you missed it last week... 

The most exciting news has dropped for Connectd in 2026. This space is set to go BIG. 

Take a look and tag anyone you think should be involved.

I've pitched over 800 times.

But I've never been as nervous as I was pitching to Simon Squibb.

My first business started when I was 21. I had no connections or network. Just an idea and then hundreds of thousands of pounds of debt.

Every day felt like a panic attack waiting to happen. I had the will but didn't know the way.

Then I met the right people and EVERYTHING changed.

Went from drowning in debt to selling that company at 26 for 7 figures.. But I never forgot what it felt like to have no one in your corner.

That's why I built Connectd. Experienced, talented people who want to help entrepreneurs like I was: young, hungry, but completely alone.

So when I got the chance to pitch to Simon Squibb and HelpBnk, the stakes felt different.

This wasn't about me. Instead, it was about every young founder who's grinding with no connections, just trying to figure it out.

Simon got it immediately.

"I love it. You wanna help people, I wanna help you help people. You're my kind of person."

Now Connectd is partnering with HelpBnk.

Simon's community of dreamers will get access to our network of fractional experts. The entrepreneurs pitching to Our Doorbell will have senior talent in their corner.

The kids who feel like I did at 20 - brilliant ideas but no connections - they'll have a path forward.

This changes everything.

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