Melbourne · Friday 12 February 2027
The Unconference for Unconventional Careers.
A one-day event for fractional and interim executives, portfolio careerists and solopreneurs.
Nobody hands you a playbook for this.
There are a thousand versions of fractional, interim executive or portfolio careers and most of them live inside one person's head. The operator who cracked pricing. The one with a referral engine that actually works. The one who figured out how to run a portfolio without burning out in year two.
None of them are writing it down. They tell you over coffee.
That's the real transfer mechanism, and it only ever reaches as far as your existing network. So we're putting everyone in one room for a day.
How the day works
Bring one question, or one thing you want to learn. You pitch it in thirty seconds, it goes on the wall, and everyone votes with dots. The topics that people actually want fill the day, led by the people who have already solved them.
Speed networking opens the morning, because the fractional life attracts a lot of introverts and everyone needs permission to start talking.
How do I price a retainer without just guessing?
What do I actually say to “can I pick your brain?”
Where does work come from once the referrals dry up?
How do I run four clients without resenting all of them?
Day rate, retainer or a slice of the outcome?
What goes in a proposal that actually closes?
How do I build an audience without posting every single day?
Your question goes here
The value chain
Sessions are grouped by where you are in the arc, so you can spend the day in the one that's actually biting.
What could my working life look like?
What am I known for?
What can someone buy from me?
Why should anyone trust me?
Where will my work come from?
How do I turn opportunities into paid work?
How do I deliver brilliantly without recreating a job?
How do I make this sustainable and grow it?
What you leave with
A day to celebrate, collaborate, connect and commiserate.
Mostly you leave with people. The rest follows from that.
Who’s behind Find Your People?
Find Your People is the brainchild of Penelope Barr, Portfolio Careerpreneur, and Zac King, Fractional Executive. Between them, they have navigated executive careers, fractional work, portfolio careers, consulting and the sometimes messy business of creating a working life on your own terms.
They are bringing together the people they wish they had around them when they were figuring it out, to share what works, what does not and what nobody puts in a playbook.
Penelope Barr is a portfolio careerist, advisor, author, technology innovator, coach and working parent. She draws on more than 25 years of executive experience and has spent the past five years running a portfolio career, coaching others to set up their own practice, products and income streams. She created the 6:3:3 seasonal portfolio career concept and wrote Win the Night to Win the Day (Hardie Grant, 2026).
Zac King went fractional in 2021 and founded the Fractional Exec Community because nobody else in Australia was talking about it. It now brings fractional executives together through a paid operator community and meetups in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
For sponsors and partners
Fractional, interim and portfolio executives are hard to reach through the usual channels. They aren't on a company list and they don't answer cold outreach. For one day they're all in the same room, thinking hard about how they run their own businesses.
The details
Date
Friday
12 February 2027
Time
9:30am – 4:30pm
Drinks afterwards. Dinner on Thursday 11 February for anyone travelling in.
Where
Fringe Common Rooms
Trades Hall, Level 1, corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton VIC 3053.
Tickets
$295 early bird
$395 standard
Early bird pricing until 20 December.