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# Altus CXO: Fractional, interim, contract, and project-based C-level leadership services.

## Sitemaps
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## Posts
- [Altus CXO Expands Executive Leadership by Adding Chief Communication Officers](https://altuscxo.com/insights/altus-cxo-adds-chief-communication-officers/): Jeff Huggins and Steve Carlson have joined Altus CXO as Chief Communication Officers, and Huggins Consulting Group has been selected to support the firm's new strategic communications service line.
- [Flexible Ways to Engage with Altus CXO](https://altuscxo.com/insights/flexible-ways-to-engage-with-altus-cxo/): Not every company needs the same level of leadership support. Some need a sounding board. Others need an operator in the seat full-time. Some are dealing with a challenge that spans multiple functions and requires coordinated executive leadership across the organization.
- [How Altus Delivers Executive Team Strength](https://altuscxo.com/insights/how-altus-delivers-executive-team-strength/): Companies reach out to Altus at different stages and for different reasons. Some have a leadership gap they need filled yesterday. Others see a transformation ahead and know their current team cannot cover it alone. A few are growing so fast that the leadership structure has not kept pace.
- [The Fractional CFO Market Has Tripled. Here's What's Driving It.](https://altuscxo.com/insights/the-fractional-cfo-market-has-tripled-heres-whats-driving-it/): What Revelio Labs workforce data tells us about the structural shift in how companies access finance leadership.
- [Executive Team Strength: What It Means and Why It Matters](https://altuscxo.com/insights/executive-team-strength-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters/): Executive Team Strength is a different approach. It starts from the premise that leadership challenges in growing companies are rarely contained within a single function.
- [The Reinforcement Model: Why One Executive Is Never Enough](https://altuscxo.com/insights/the-reinforcement-model-why-one-executive-is-never-enough/): When a mid-market company hits a leadership gap, the instinct is straightforward: hire someone. Find a fractional CFO, bring in a consultant, or promote from within. The assumption is that one person, placed in the right seat, will solve the problem.

## Pages
- [Altus CXO Networking Event](https://altuscxo.com/networking/): An informal come and go networking event with local business leaders and professionals. Thursday September 3, 2026, 4:00 to 6:00 PM at Bubba's in Des Moines.
- [Fractional CPO](https://altuscxo.com/services/fractional-cpo/): Fractional Executive Leadership
- [Jim Barke](https://altuscxo.com/team/jim-barke/): With more than 20 years in procurement and strategic sourcing, Jim has managed spend ranging from small-business budgets to portfolios exceeding $400 million. He spent much of his career at Prime Therapeutics, the Blue Cross-owned pharmacy benefit manager, leading strategic sourcing across technology and SaaS, business process outsourcing, professional services, staffing, clinical operations, and corporate services. Today he is President of Impact Procurement Partners and brings that enterprise-scale discipline to Altus clients.
- [Jeff Huggins](https://altuscxo.com/team/jeff-huggins/): Jeff Huggins is a trusted communications advisor who helps organizations navigate growth, change, and complex business challenges with clarity and confidence. As a Fractional Chief Communications Officer with Altus CXO, he partners with CEOs, executive leadership teams, and boards to develop communication strategies that strengthen reputations, build stakeholder trust, and support long-term business objectives.
- [Steve Carlson](https://altuscxo.com/team/steve-carlson/): Steve Carlson serves as Chief Communications Officer at Altus CXO, where he provides strategic communications counsel and support to clients. He works closely with organizations and executive leaders to develop and execute effective communications strategies, strengthen stakeholder engagement, manage reputation, and navigate complex business challenges.
- [Susan Johnson](https://altuscxo.com/team/susan-johnson/): Susan Johnson helps organizations strengthen their financial operations by bringing clarity, stability, and strategic insight to complex business challenges. As a Fractional Chief Financial Officer with Altus CXO, she partners with executive leaders to improve financial performance, streamline processes, and provide the financial information needed to make confident business decisions.
- [Fractional CCO](https://altuscxo.com/services/chief-communications-officer/): Communications is a strategic business discipline. A Chief Communications Officer helps the CEO and executive team align business strategy with enterprise messaging, strengthen brand reputation, and build trust with employees, customers, investors, partners, and communities. Altus CXO's fractional CCOs bring that same executive leadership to small and mid-sized businesses, helping them communicate with the discipline, confidence, and strategic focus typically found in much larger organizations.
- [Private Colleges & Universities](https://altuscxo.com/industries/private-colleges-universities/): Industry Expertise
- [ClearXO](https://altuscxo.com/clearxo/): A one-week operational assessment that maps your people, processes, systems, and data to a complete, prioritized roadmap.
- [Professional Services](https://altuscxo.com/industries/professional-services/): Industry Expertise
- [Renewables](https://altuscxo.com/industries/renewables/): Industry Expertise
- [Cooperatives](https://altuscxo.com/industries/cooperatives/): Industry Expertise
- [Manufacturing](https://altuscxo.com/industries/manufacturing/): Industry Expertise
- [Construction](https://altuscxo.com/industries/construction/): Industry Expertise
- [Healthcare](https://altuscxo.com/industries/healthcare/): Industry Expertise
- [Private Equity](https://altuscxo.com/industries/private-equity/): Industry Expertise
- [Agriculture](https://altuscxo.com/industries/agriculture/): Industry Expertise
- [Fractional CEO](https://altuscxo.com/services/fractional-ceo/): Your founder just stepped back. The leadership team is uncertain. The board wants a plan. Your fractional CEO meets individually with each VP, identifies the three decisions that have been stalling, makes them, and presents a 90-day transition roadmap to the board by Friday.
- [Fractional CIO](https://altuscxo.com/services/fractional-cio/): Your data lives in six different systems and nobody trusts the reports. Your fractional CIO audits the information architecture, identifies the three integration points that matter most, and builds a roadmap that gives your leadership team a single source of truth within 90 days.
- [Fractional CMO](https://altuscxo.com/services/fractional-cmo/): Your sales team says they need more leads. Your marketing person says they need more budget. Your fractional CMO audits the funnel, discovers the problem is not lead volume but lead quality, and restructures the targeting strategy. Pipeline quality improves within a quarter without increasing spend.
- [Fractional COO](https://altuscxo.com/services/fractional-coo/): Your production line missed its third delivery commitment this quarter. The sales team is frustrated. The ops team is overwhelmed. Your fractional COO maps the bottleneck to a scheduling conflict between two product lines, restructures the production sequence, and implements a capacity dashboard the team can actually use.
- [Insights](https://altuscxo.com/insights/)
- [Day in the Life of an Altus CXO Associate](https://altuscxo.com/careers/fractional-executive-daily-schedule/): That is the honest answer. If you are coming from a full-time role where your calendar was owned by someone else, the shift to fractional work is significant. You are designing your own week. You decide which hours go to client work, which go to business development, and which go to learning and networking. No two associates have the same schedule, and no two weeks look exactly alike.
- [Tools & Support We Provide](https://altuscxo.com/careers/fractional-executive-tools-support/): When you join Altus CXO, you are not just getting a name on a website. You are getting infrastructure. We provide the operational backbone so you can focus on what you do best: leading companies. Here is what that looks like in practice.
- [The Altus CXO Model](https://altuscxo.com/careers/altus-cxo-fractional-model/): Altus CXO operates like a firm, not a job board. Our associates are connected and interdependent. When an engagement calls for expertise beyond a single discipline, associates bring in the right people from across the network. A fractional CFO working with a growth-stage client might pull in an Altus CXO COO to help operationalize a new revenue model, or a CTO to assess the tech stack. The client gets a coordinated team. You get colleagues, not competitors.
- [How Fractional Pay Works](https://altuscxo.com/careers/fractional-executive-compensation/): Fractional work can be very financially rewarding, but outcomes vary widely. Some people earn a few thousand dollars per month as supplemental income, while others build six-figure annual earnings that far surpass what they were making in their previous full-time role. What you make depends on your discipline, experience level, ability to find and retain clients, and how you structure your compensation.
- [Am I Ready for Fractional?](https://altuscxo.com/careers/fractional-executive-readiness/): Fractional work can be a great fit for mid-to-late career professionals who want to increase their earning potential and lifestyle flexibility. It is generally for experts in a field like finance, engineering, marketing, operations, or any other discipline where companies need senior leadership without a full-time commitment. If that feels like you, then fractional work is worth understanding and seriously considering.
- [What Is Fractional Executive Work?](https://altuscxo.com/careers/what-is-fractional-executive-work/): A fractional executive is a senior leader who works with multiple companies, providing the same strategic leadership that a full-time hire would, but within a focused time commitment. If you have spent 15 or more years building expertise in your discipline, fractional work lets you apply that experience across several organizations rather than dedicating it to one.
- [Apply to Altus CXO](https://altuscxo.com/careers/apply/): Join a network of experienced executives who deliver fractional leadership to growing companies. We are selective about who we bring on, and we invest in every associate who joins.
- [Maureen Cahill](https://altuscxo.com/team/maureen-cahill/): Before joining Altus CXO, Maureen served as Senior Managing Partner at McLean & Company, where she led the firm’s Executive Services business through a period of accelerated expansion, nearly tripling the client base and establishing the offering as one of the company’s most strategic growth engines. Prior to that, she joined Gartner to help establish its CHRO advisory practice, which became one of the firm’s fastest-growing executive offerings.
- [Alicia Brown](https://altuscxo.com/team/alicia-brown/): Alicia’s background includes extensive experience in complex manufacturing and supply-chain environments, where she has led finance functions across multi-site operations. She has supported mergers and acquisitions, integrations, divestitures, and joint venture transitions, helping organizations maintain financial continuity while managing risk.
- [Mike Halekakis](https://altuscxo.com/team/mike-halekakis/): His experience spans every stage of company growth-from directing $100M+ operational portfolios supporting multi-billion-dollar business units at Microsoft, to leading a digital publishing startup as CEO and growing revenue from $0 to $65M. Across a diverse career, he has launched dozens of successful products and services at organizations ranging from early-stage startups to global brands such as Apple.
- [Dan Joyce](https://altuscxo.com/team/dan-joyce/): With more than 30 years of experience leading complex commercial initiatives, Dan has a strong track record of turning strategy into measurable results.
- [Matt Arnold](https://altuscxo.com/team/matt-arnold/): With more than 25 years of experience in innovation, brand strategy, and human-centered design, Matt is known for turning ambiguity into alignment. He integrates design thinking, systems thinking, and organizational sensemaking to help leaders make informed decisions and move their organizations forward with purpose.
- [Eric Van Roekel](https://altuscxo.com/team/eric-van-roekel/): Throughout his career, Eric has held senior leadership roles across diverse business environments, delivering measurable results in safety, quality, compliance, customer service, productivity, and inventory optimization.
- [Anne Cooper](https://altuscxo.com/team/anne-cooper/): As a former Chief Human Resources Officer, Anne has built her career at the intersection of strategy, culture, and leadership. She is known for her ability to translate complex business challenges into actionable talent strategies, creating alignment between people and performance.
- [Mike Schmitz](https://altuscxo.com/team/mike-schmitz/): Mike's background is especially well-suited to today's AI-accelerated environment, where the fastest path to results often comes from pairing deep stakeholder and domain understanding with strong engineering execution.
- [Fractional CTO](https://altuscxo.com/services/fractional-cto/): Your ERP migration is six weeks behind. The vendor is pointing fingers at your team. Your fractional CTO gets on a call with the implementation lead, identifies the three integration bottlenecks, and restructures the project timeline before your operations team even knows there was a problem.
- [Fractional CHRO](https://altuscxo.com/services/fractional-chro/): You have lost three key employees in two months. The exit interviews say the same thing: no development path, unclear expectations. Your fractional CHRO designs a performance framework, rebuilds the compensation structure to match market data, and runs the first leadership development session within 30 days.
- [Fractional CFO](https://altuscxo.com/services/fractional-cfo/): Your controller flags a cash gap three weeks out. Your fractional CFO restructures the AP schedule, calls your banking contact, and updates the board deck before lunch. No six-month search. No learning curve. No $400K salary line item. Just a finance leader who has done this exact thing at four other companies and knows what to do next.
- [Careers](https://altuscxo.com/careers/): Altus CXO connects proven executives with companies that need fractional leadership. Explore the playbook, see if the model fits, and take the first step.
- [Services](https://altuscxo.com/services/): Growing businesses need more than advice - they need experienced executive leadership that delivers results. Altus CXO provides fractional CFOs, COOs, CHROs, CTOs, CIOs, CMOs, and CEOs to mid-market companies, helping drive growth, improve operations, and lead digital transformation.
- [Todd Steen](https://altuscxo.com/team/todd-steen/): His experience includes overseeing multiple concurrent credit facilities, leading complex system integrations, and providing financial oversight during periods of rapid growth or distress.As a Fractional CFO with Altus CXO, Todd brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to financial leadership - balancing big-picture strategy with practical execution to help clients strengthen their financial position and achieve their business goals.
- [Michelle Book](https://altuscxo.com/team/michelle-book/): Michelle Book is a seasoned executive and financial leader with more than 30 years of experience across corporate, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial settings. With a foundation in accounting and a passion for service, she partners with mission-driven organizations to lead through transformation, strengthen operations, and remove barriers to growth.
- [Aaron Matthews](https://altuscxo.com/team/aaron-matthews/): Aaron excels at streamlining operations, integrating AI-driven solutions, and fostering high-performing teams to navigate dynamic market challenges. His leadership blends visionary planning with pragmatic execution, ensuring sustainable growth and measurable results. Known for his collaborative approach, Aaron builds strong stakeholder relationships, bridges operational gaps, and implements robust systems that empower organizations to thrive.
- [Bo Schatzberg](https://altuscxo.com/team/bo-schatzberg/): Bo Schatzberg is an accomplished technology leader with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation and delivering high-impact solutions in the financial services, insurance, healthcare, and transportation and logistics industries. As a fractional CTO, Bo brings a passion for leveraging technology to achieve business objectives, guiding organizations through complex technology landscapes and ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- [Anh McCormick](https://altuscxo.com/team/anh-mccormick/): Anh McCormick is a finance and systems professional with nearly 15 years of experience specializing in financial planning and analysis, business intelligence, and operational optimization. Known for her data-driven approach and systems fluency, Anh partners closely with leadership to deliver financial insights that enable better decision-making and drive business growth. Her expertise spans financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and ERP/BI system integration, with a proven ability to design processes that turn raw data into strategic advantage.
- [Tom Altman](https://altuscxo.com/team/tom-altman/): Tom is a fractional CIO/CTO at Altus CXO, specializing in helping businesses align technology with strategy to drive growth, improve efficiency, and prepare for the next wave of AI and automation. With more than 25 years of experience, Tom provides executive-level technology leadership to organizations navigating complexity, change, and opportunity.
- [Brett Corrick](https://altuscxo.com/team/brett-corrick/): Brett Corrick brings an ambitious professional and progressive experience that bridges technology within business finance and operations. Brett is people oriented with forward thinking leadership that approaches problem solving with data as the driver. Brett has comprehensive knowledge of accounting, supply chain, distribution, and manufacturing. His strengths include analytics, data integrity, process improvement, IT platforms, fiscal management, business growth and team building.

## About Altus CXO

Altus CXO is a fractional executive firm. We provide on-demand C-level leadership (CFO, COO, CHRO, CMO, CTO, CIO, CEO) on a fractional, interim, contract, or project basis.

Our positioning is Executive Team Strength: rather than a single hire, we deploy a lead executive backed by a cross-functional bench. This model gives growing companies access to senior leadership without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.

## Services

- Fractional CFO leadership
- Fractional COO leadership
- Fractional CHRO leadership
- Fractional CMO leadership
- Fractional CTO and CIO leadership
- Fractional CEO leadership

## Geography

Iowa-based, serving growing businesses across the Midwest and nationally.