Fractional project management for small teams who need someone dedicated to the timelines, the status updates, and the tool that is supposed to be tracking it all.
What I Do
Your designers design. Your developers build. Meanwhile the timeline lives in three places, the client asks for a status update, and whoever is least busy that week writes it. I take that off the team.
Real schedules built so a slip in week two shows up before it becomes a missed launch in week six.
The same report, the same day, every week. Written from the work, not from asking everyone how it is going.
Follow-through between the meeting and the deadline, which is where most of it gets lost.
Asana, Monday, Basecamp, or Notion, configured around how your team already works.
Pricing
Most agencies between five and fifteen people don't need to hire a project manager. They need one project set up right, and then somebody to keep it that way. Start with either.
One project, properly set up.
Founding rate for the first three clients, then $450 flat. Delivered in 5 business days.
One project, one client, up to three workstreams and eight people. Larger than that and I'll quote it.
Start with one project →A project manager on your team, part time.
20 hours at $75/hour. Month to month, cancel anytime.
Or email amanda@kerschenworks.com
Project Reset Intake
Eight questions, about ten minutes. This tells me whether the project fits a Project Reset and lets day one start with real work. Your answers come straight to me, and I reply by email.
About
I started in advertising as a media planner and buyer, running annual strategy and buys across 30+ markets on a $1M budget, working alongside account teams and creative on deadlines that did not move.
From there I spent fifteen years in K-12 education as a Science Program Lead and Department Chair across three countries, which is project management under a different title: multi-phase programs, immovable dates, budgets, and a dozen stakeholders who all needed something different from the same plan.
Now I do it for small teams who need that discipline without a full-time hire. I hold the Google Project Management Certificate, sit for the PMP in November, and serve as Program Manager for Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow, a youth entrepreneurship nonprofit, running program delivery on Agile and Kanban practices.
Podcast
A show for founders of small creative agencies about the specific ways project work goes sideways when nobody's job is watching it. Fifteen minutes, one problem, and one thing you can do about it this week without hiring anyone.
Portfolio
A full documentation set built from a real, genuinely messy project: an international relocation that lost its diploma, blew past its start date, and had to be rebuilt around a new critical path. Every artifact a project manager is expected to produce, applied to something that actually went wrong.
Send me the project that is worrying you. I will tell you what I would do with it, whether or not you hire me.
Send me a note