ELiN · Executive search for the season ahead

ELiN means shining light.

Light on the leaders who will shape what comes next. Executive search for C-suite and leadership teams. For HR services, fast-growing and family businesses.

Our story What we do

Our position · 01

Most searches start with a vacancy. Ours start with a question.

We have run companies ourselves. That is why we ask what your leadership actually needs before we look at who is available. Sometimes the answer is a search. Sometimes it is that you already have the right team. About ELiN

Every leader has a moment they step in.

The water is cold and the moment is here. Some leaders simply step in. You recognise them by that first step, sooner than by the CV. That is who we look for, and that is where our questions start.

A woman steps into the sea on a bright, windy day

The series · 02

The light is on the leaders.

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Marit van EgmondFormer CEO, Albert HeijnTalent begins with curiosity.

Maarten van BeekChief Purpose & Strategy Officer, INGCurate talent like art.

Marion van HappenCEO, HeadFirst GroupYou see leadership in what the people around you achieve.

Dr. Marcia GoddardFounder, Brain MattersAlmost nobody is being difficult on purpose.

Debbie KleinCEO, New York PizzaLeaders exist only by the grace of their followers.

Peter ScherjonFounder, Hartman & HartmanSuccess should reflect the humanity that shapes it.

Lena OlivierBoard director & supervisory leaderLeadership is not about pushing harder, but listening better.

Jacques BuithCEO, FlynthLeadership is making people better.

Nancy HooglandChief People & Culture, KnabA leader ensures every link makes the next one stronger.

Vincent BiekmanCofounder, LekkerParkerenBusiness with a Smile.

Joost KreulenChairman of the Board, Empresaria GroupStrategy without execution is daydreaming.

Maximilian KrijgsmanCEO, RGF Staffing the NetherlandsLeadership is not a title. It is a habit.

Chantalle JanclaesFounder & Chief Growth Officer, CurgoalLeadership is about creating space for better questions.

Gino JacobsOwner & Managing Director, ProfoundClarity is a gift you give your team.

Jesse Zahn-van der ValkActive owner, family businessesTwo worlds, one leadership.

Wim de JongFounder, YOUNGBuild together, earn together.

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Long-form conversations with the people redefining leadership. New voices, regularly.

What we do · 03

What we do. And for whom.

Each built for a different moment. Every one begins with the same question: what does your leadership actually need?

01Deliver

Executive Search

Interim and permanent. C-suite, senior leaders and the boardroom, succession and non-executive roles included.

Every search led by a partner, from the first conversation to the first hundred days. Diagnosis before search, every time.
Executive search →

02Diagnose

The Next Season Scan

A season map of your leadership team: what the next phase asks, and where the gaps are.

Who is ready for it, who needs a different seat, and what the team is missing. Sometimes the outcome is reassurance.
The scan →

03Diagnose

Leadership Due Diligence

For investors: can this team carry the season you are buying?

Tested before the deal or in the first hundred days. Insider judgment, not an assessment factory.
Due diligence →

Founder-led and PE-backed

When the next phase asks for a different leader.

Ownership shifts, and the team that built the company is not always the team that carries it forward.

Scale-ups and corporates

When the team grows slower than the company.

Reinventing while you perform, with a leadership model that has not caught up.

Purpose-driven and family businesses

When succession is personal.

Continuity and conviction in the same room, and no choice is neutral.

Now open

Commercieel Directeur · Covebo

The largest business within House of Covebo, part of House of HR, with around 370 million in revenue. A senior commercial mandate, and we are looking for the leader to carry it. Nijkerk.

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ELiN Leadership Signature · free in 2026

Thirteen situations. No right answer.

Designed around what we meet in the boardroom, inspired by Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and Paul Sackett on what actually predicts in selection. Twelve minutes, and a personal reflection in return.

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One of the questions01 / 05

Your leadership team wants an AI system to help decide on pricing. The numbers are good, the explainability is not.

Your most loyal team member helped build the company, but no longer fits the next phase. Everyone sees it, no one says it.

A hundred days in, you discover the strategy you were hired for rests on a wrong assumption.

Part of your best people’s work is demonstrably becoming redundant. They don’t see it yet.

Describe the decision in your career where you stood most alone. What did you do, and what did it cost you?

See how you would answer →