ELiN · Executive search for the season ahead
ELiN means shining light. Light on the leaders who will shape what comes next. Executive search for founder-led, PE-backed and growing companies.
Scroll ↓Our position · 01
We don't fill seats.
We architect leadership.
What we do · 02
Each built for a different moment. Every one begins with the same question: what does your leadership actually need?
C-suite, senior leaders and the boardroom: succession and non-executive roles included.
Diagnosis before search, every time. → 02DiagnoseA season map of your leadership team: what the next phase asks, and where the gaps are.
Sometimes the outcome is reassurance. → 03DiagnoseFor 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. →For whom · 03
Always at moments that demand more than business as usual. And with senior leaders considering their own next chapter.
Founder-led & PE-backed
Ownership shifts, and the team that built the company is not always the team that carries it forward.
What we do →Scale-ups & corporates
Reinventing while you perform, with a leadership model that has not caught up.
What we do →Purpose-driven & family businesses
Continuity and conviction in the same room, and no choice is neutral.
What we do →The founders · 04
Ineke and Elbrich founded ELiN Partners together: a CEO and a CHRO who have worked side by side at scale, supported by teams behind the scenes in the Netherlands and Switzerland. Different lenses on the same question.
Ineke Kooistra · CEO & Founder
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“Who, exactly, do you need at the helm right now?”
The question we keep asking
Elbrich Batstra · CHRO & Founder
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Calm on the surface. Everything in motion beneath.The series · 05
Long-form conversations with the people redefining leadership. New voices, regularly.
For leaders · 06 · New
Every season of a business needs its own kind of leader. Our own two-part reflection asks how you lead people, and how you lead now that AI changes the game. About twelve minutes, and you receive a personal mirror right away.
Take the reflection & register →Free · a few minutes · the link to your reflection scan is emailed the moment you register
Join the leaders already in the reflection.
Let's talk · 07