How do I price a retainer without just guessing?
Package
Melbourne · Thursday 19 November 2026
Meet your People
A one-day unconference for fractional and portfolio careers.
- 9:30am – 4:30pm
- Drinks after
- 50–100 people
Melbourne · Thursday 19 November 2026
A one-day unconference for fractional and portfolio careers.
Nobody hands you a playbook for this.
There are a thousand versions of a fractional career 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 this 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.
For sponsors and partners
Fractional 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
Thursday
19 November 2026
Time
9:30am – 4:30pm
Drinks afterwards. Dinner the night before for anyone travelling.
Where
Melbourne
Venue being confirmed.
Tickets
$250 early bird
$350 standard
Early bird opens August.