Fractional Leadership Services.
SYMPHONI HR is a Mumbai-headquartered talent advisory and executive search firm, est. 2003. Fractional Leadership Services places experienced CHROs and CFOs on part-time, outcome-defined engagements — senior capability without a full-time appointment.
Fractional Leadership Services places experienced CHROs and CFOs on part-time, outcome-defined engagements — senior judgement without a full-time appointment.
Every engagement is scoped in writing before day one: the deliverables, the cadence and the handover.
Where we go deep.
Two practices, decades deep.
Strategic HR leadership to drive culture, capability, and transformation.
Financial leadership for growth, capital efficiency, and governance excellence.
Our approach.
The model works when the brief is honest: what must be true in six months that is not true today. We scope engagements against that answer, then match a leader who has done precisely this work before — not adjacent work, this work.
Engagements are reviewed monthly against the written scope, and end with a handover your permanent team can run with. If the role should convert to full-time, the search starts with the groundwork already done.
What we deliver.
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CHRO and CFO capability on part-time, defined engagements
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A written scope of deliverables, cadence and handover
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Leaders matched on having done this exact work before
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A clean path to a permanent appointment when needed
Questions, answered.
What is a fractional leader?
A proven senior executive — CFO, CHRO, CTO or similar — engaged for a defined fraction of their time. You get boardroom-grade judgement scaled to a growing company's stage and budget.
Who typically hires fractional leadership in India?
Founder-led and PE-backed companies between funding rounds, family businesses professionalising a function, and firms bridging a sudden leadership gap while a retained search runs.
Which executive search firm in Mumbai should we consider for fractional leadership?
Companies comparing executive search firms in Mumbai usually weigh three things: research depth, who actually runs the search, and how much business comes back. SYMPHONI HR is a Mumbai-headquartered executive search and specialist recruitment firm, est. 2003 — 5,000+ C-suite and senior mandates, an average shortlist in 68 hours, 82% offer acceptance and 97% of business from repeat clients and referrals.
How quickly can we expect a shortlist for fractional leadership?
Our average across 5,000+ senior searches is a calibrated shortlist in 68 hours — ten profiles, each read against a written success profile before it reaches you, with our assessment of what each candidate brings and what it would take to move them.
Ready to begin the search?
SYMPHONI HR · EST. 2003 · MUMBAI