Approach
Senior operators, on the inside.
The Forae Group was founded on a simple premise: most organizations don't need another full-time executive — they need the right one, at the right moment, for the right duration. We bring C-suite judgment to teams in motion, scale fractionally, and exit cleanly.
What We Believe
Four principles.
Operator before advisor.
We don't write decks for shelves. Every engagement ends with something different in your operating reality.
Honest before tactful.
Tactful, always. But the value is in the conversations your team is already avoiding.
Fractional by structure.
We're embedded enough to act, light enough to keep your team accountable for the work that's theirs.
Quietly senior.
Twenty-plus years in the role. The work speaks; we don't need to.
Founder
Katrina Forinash
Founder & Principal
Two decades as a Chief of Staff, COO, and strategic advisor across high-growth, private-equity, and turnaround environments. Management consultant to Fortune 500 corporations, trusted to lead their most important initiatives. Multiple full-cycle transformations and a long list of leadership teams that needed an honest second chair.
The Forae Group was founded in 2026 to bring that same judgment to organizations that don't yet need — or don't yet want — a permanent executive in the seat.
The Forae Group is based in Dallas, Texas. Engagements are taken selectively. We work with a small number of clients at any given time to keep the work serious.