CRO Interim Leadership Services
F. MICHAEL FLYNN
Why Mike Flynn as Interim CRO ?
When you're navigating leadership transition, you need more than a placeholder—you need a seasoned sales strategist with an entrepreneurial drive who keeps the business not only stable, but growing. Mike Flynn delivers exactly that, by steping in seamlessly to stabilize performance, inspire teams, and protect momentum.
Protect Momentum, Inspire People and Create Stability
Mike thrives in transitional environments, where a focus on sales goals can easily give way to distractions. He quickly creates focus on mission-critical objectives, diagnoses operational challenges, shores up team morale, and demands a focus on data-driven processes that deliver predictable results. While others may tread water, Mike sets the course, mitigates risk, and maintains investor and customer confidence.
He’s not here to simply “hold the fort”—he’s here to fortify it. His goal is clear: leave the next CRO with a healthier, high-functioning sales organization that’s ready for sustainable growth.
If you need a proven leader to bridge the gap between uncertainty and opportunity, Mike Flynn is your strategic advantage.
Five reasons why Mike Flynn should be your Interim CRO:
1. Mike Doesn’t Just Fill a Gap—He Builds a Bridge
2. Mike Steadies the Ship While Steering it Forward
3. Mike Aligns Sales with Strategy—and Then Executes
4. Mike Energizes and Enables Sales Talent
5. Mike Brings Global Perspective and Local Execution
Conclusion
Mike Doesn’t Just Fill a Gap—He Builds a Bridge
Most interim leaders focus on maintenance. Mike Flynn focuses on momentum.
With over three decades of hands-on leadership across financial services, global consulting, and performance-driven sales environments, Mike brings much more than crisis management. He brings forward motion. At Omega Performance, he tripled Canadian revenues and grew EBITDA from 4% to 23% in just 48 months. At RBC, he was awarded the highest possible performance recognition for his leadership of transformative sales effectiveness programs.
This is not a placeholder executive. Mike is a builder, capable of stabilizing your revenue operations while also laying a smarter, stronger foundation for the incoming CRO. From sales process and CRM design to pipeline optimization and talent development, he ensures that the permanent CRO steps into a well-tuned, high-functioning machine—not a mess that needs fixing.
Mike Steadies the Ship While Steering it Forward
Uncertainty is the enemy of performance. The moment a CRO exits—whether suddenly or as part of a planned transition—teams begin to question strategy, direction, and even their own roles. Sales performance can drop simply due to organizational anxiety.
Mike brings calm authority, and that’s not just about personality—it’s about pattern recognition. He has led through market volatility, international expansions, corporate restructuring, and even disaster recovery (having rebuilt a banking portfolio after Hurricane Hugo in the US Virgin Islands). In short, Mike understands how to lead teams through ambiguity with confidence, clarity, and credibility.
He has the executive maturity to make high-trust decisions with imperfect information and the interpersonal finesse to keep teams aligned and engaged, even during organizational limbo. Whether it’s delivering a Town Hall or coaching a discouraged sales leader, Mike speaks the language of leadership.
Mike Aligns Sales with Strategy—and Then Executes
What separates an interim leader who survives from one who adds strategic value? Execution.
Mike has deep, hands-on experience leading all facets of the revenue function. From early-stage startups to multinational banks, he has successfully led sales force restructuring, CRM redesigns, international market entries, and professional services launches.
His strength lies in quickly diagnosing the performance levers in your sales engine and creating a clear playbook for traction. He doesn’t simply inherit your strategy—he sharpens it. He ensures product-market alignment, recalibrates the metrics that matter, and focuses on activities that drive actual revenue. And he does it in a way that’s collaborative, transparent, and deeply aligned with business goals.
He’s not afraid to question assumptions. Nor is he slow to act. That’s the sweet spot every board and CEO wants in an interim CRO.
Mike Energizes and Enables Sales Talent
Sales is a people business, and Mike Flynn is a people-first leader.
One of his most notable skills is his ability to revitalize underperforming teams by building cultures of shared ownership, accountability, and resilience. At RBC, he reversed a struggling commercial banking portfolio and hit 300% of quota in just 30 months by restructuring team operations and re-centering client engagement. At New Path Performance, he created and staffed a new learning services firm from scratch, achieving profitability within five quarters.
Whether he’s coaching individuals, redesigning incentive models, or facilitating leadership development programs, Mike gets results by amplifying the capabilities of the people around him. And that includes the C-suite. CEOs and boards alike appreciate Mike’s clarity, emotional intelligence, and no-nonsense approach to organizational success.
In other words, he not only keeps the sales ship on course—he ensures the crew becomes stronger and more focused under his watch.
Mike Brings Global Perspective and Local Execution
It’s rare to find a revenue leader who can think globally, execute locally, and build long-term customer value. Mike Flynn does all three—and he’s done it on four continents.
He’s lived and worked in six countries and led market entry strategies in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. His tenure in international banking and consulting gave him a deep understanding of how to adapt sales strategies across cultural and regulatory contexts, how to build brand trust in new markets, and how to deliver results under radically different business conditions.
But Mike’s global vision doesn’t compromise local execution. He understands how to leverage CRM tools like Salesforce and Pardot, translate analytics into action, and make scalable, tactical improvements that drive weekly sales performance.
Conclusion
In today’s fast-changing economic environment, you need a leader who’s seen multiple market cycles and knows how to drive results when the playbook isn’t obvious. That’s Mike Flynn.
Why an External Interim CRO Is the Strategic Choice
In times of leadership transition, choosing how to bridge the CRO gap is as critical as selecting the permanent successor. While it may seem efficient to elevate an internal candidate into an “acting” CRO role, this approach carries inherent risks—disrupting peer dynamics, diluting functional focus, and, in many cases, assigning a mandate without the experience to lead at the enterprise level.
Bringing in an external Interim Chief Revenue Officer ensures stability, continuity, and forward momentum—without entangling internal politics or overburdening existing leaders. A seasoned interim CRO offers an objective lens, sharpens execution, and rapidly aligns sales operations with strategic goals, unencumbered by legacy assumptions. They can reset priorities, coach leadership, and prepare the organization for a permanent CRO to enter a high-functioning, opportunity-rich environment.
An interim CRO also protects internal talent: your best managers remain focused on their strengths and won’t be caught in awkward succession dynamics or burned out by dual responsibilities. This protects morale and maintains performance across all levels of the organization.
Simply put, hiring an external Interim CRO is not just a stopgap—it’s a strategic investment in revenue performance and leadership clarity when your business needs it most.