Filling Senior Gaps Without Full-Time Overhead
Fractional Directorship Services
Gain a Business Development or Sustainability Director for your Team on a Part-time, Non-permanent basis
You are a smaller organization, but you have big ambitions.
You don’t have the bandwidth (or need) for leadership across all business units in your organization, but you see the value of having senior-level expertise to contribute to strategic discussions and participate in investor conversations.
The ForestLink offers Fractional Directorship across business development and/or sustainability functions. You get the benefits of an in-house Director, without the overhead that comes with it.
As the ForestLink respects the need for business confidentiality, Shauna very carefully selects her Fractional Directorship engagements to ensure there are no conflicts of interest and will not work on behalf of similar clients in the same role at the same time.
What this support looks like
Fractional Directorship offers high-impact support tailored to your business stage—whether you’re scaling, or in transition.
This isn’t analyst or junior-level support. It’s strategic leadership that helps you steer the business toward your long-term goals—with just the right amount of hands-on involvement.
To define your goals and what you need from Shauna as a Fractional Director. From the assessment, you’ll get a customized road map outlining what success looks like, the trajectory of the engagement and key milestones to work towards in a fractional engagement with Shauna.
Sustainability Directorship
Perfect for companies embedding sustainability at the core. With an emphasis on strategic alignment, compliance and best practices for sustainability – Shauna provides strategic input to shape and integrate credible sustainability goals aligned to financial objectives, recommends partners for implementation, and guides investor and partner conversations.
Prior to investment, she builds strategy and oversees the development of the ESG Policy Framework, ESG due diligence and evaluation and onboarding for new deals. Post investment, she supports building in-house sustainability expertise and overseeing ongoing operational risk and sustainability performance and reporting.
Business Development Directorship
Ideal for NbS Developers or forest businesses seeking investor capital. Shauna helps translate your strategy into investor language, assemble a robust data room, and define a fundraising roadmap. She also supports marketing materials and capital raise execution—giving you targeted business development support.
Not sure if you need Fractional Directorship?
The best place to start is the Forest Investment Growth Assessment for Asset Managers and the Fast-Track Finance Assessment for NbS Developers. Book a Fit Call to see if this is right for you. The Assessment itself will uncover if Fractional Directorship is recommended, or if a lighter advisory service might be more suitable.
Case Studies
Fractional Director of Business Development
Shauna partnered with an experienced NbS developer to raise capital for portfolio growth and deeper impact.
She clarified the investment strategy, reviewed the project and investor pipeline, and developed a step-by-step roadmap to investor-readiness—defining clear criteria and documentation needed before outreach began. With this foundation, the team was able to systematize the preparation each project must achieve to secure investment.
Shauna also crafted a multi-phase fundraising strategy, tailoring outreach and awareness-building to different investor types. The result? A focused, executable plan to attract aligned capital and grow with confidence that is being implemented now.
Fractional Sustainability Director
A Timberland Investment Management Organization (TIMO) brought in Shauna during the earliest stages of a new investment strategy aimed at qualifying as an SFDR Article 9 Fund – before they had the need for full-time, in-house expertise.
Shauna led sustainability strategy design—crafting the Fund’s impact objectives and Theory of Change to complement its financial goals. She conducted the “Do No Significant Harm” assessment under SFDR, analysing Principal Adverse Impacts to ensure compliance.
Her early involvement enabled the successful design and launch of a strategy that meets investor expectations for both sustainability and performance.
Why The ForestLink?
Shauna Matkovich, Founding Director of The ForestLink has 20-years of combined experience in operational sustainable forest management, international forest investment management, ESG and Impact management and business development of new forest investment strategies.
Shauna’s unique skillset and her collaborative get-things-done personality have helped numerous investment organizations in achieving their forest investment goals. Her combined focus on profitability, risk reduction and impact creation with expertise on how working forests operate is what you need if you care about sustainability and want it integrated into your organization and investment strategies.