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Akira Executive Search & Interim

Akira Executive Search & Interim is a Netherlands based boutique recruitment partner led by executive search consultant Fleur Wolsink Hagens. Since 2009 the firm has specialized in identifying and appointing senior management and director level professionals across Information Technology, Human Resources, and Operations for organizations that are growing, transforming, merging, or preparing for sale. Working on the basis of a one to one partnership, Akira delivers both permanent hires and freelance interim leaders who can drive change from day one. The approach starts with a thorough intake to define the right DNA for the role and team, followed by a focused search that typically presents three to five qualified candidate profiles within two to three weeks. Selection is grounded in capabilities and personality fit, supported by Fleur’s certification as an OPQ assessor, and reinforced by a long standing network built across family businesses, scale ups, corporates, and consulting firms. The track record spans cyber security scale ups, Dutch railway and transportation, international sports and consumer brands, Dutch banks and asset managers, energy and utilities companies, family offices, and a family owned seed company, with placements including Managing Director, Business Unit Manager, IT Director Supply Chain, Director Architecture, Director Enterprise Architecture, Head of CIO Office, Head of Project Management, Program and Project Managers, Portfolio Manager, Product Owners, IT Operations Managers, IT Leads, and IT Security Leads, including interim assignments such as Head of IT. Akira is known for speed, transparent communication, and a long term mindset, staying closely involved throughout interviews, decision making, contracting, and onboarding. Diversity and inclusion are core principles, resulting in shortlists that are diverse in background, experience, and leadership style while remaining tightly aligned to role requirements and culture. Clients value Akira’s ability to quickly translate business context into candidate profiles and to consistently deliver leaders who elevate teams and outcomes.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceFinTechManagement ConsultingLegal

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

Blackstone Search

Blackstone Search is a Netherlands based executive search and interim leadership firm focused exclusively on C Suite, Legal, and HR appointments. Operating nationwide from Helmond, the firm helps companies secure the right leader at the right time by combining rigorous executive search for permanent roles with fast, effective fractional leadership for time bound needs. For C suite executive search, Blackstone runs highly discrete and careful processes that emphasize strategic fit, leadership capability, and cultural alignment, introducing boardroom ready CEOs, CFOs, CHROs, and other executives who can set direction and execute. For fractional leadership, the firm rapidly deploys experienced executives who step in as full members of the leadership team to lead transformations and restructurings, support rapid growth and professionalization, cover temporary executive absences, or drive high impact strategic projects. In Legal, Blackstone connects in house legal teams and law firms with top talent across the Netherlands, including corporate counsels, litigators, (candidate) notaries, partners, and legal leaders who match the strategy, culture, and ambitions of the organization. The firm also supports law firms with critical staff functions such as office directors and HR managers. Drawing on first hand experience as former General Counsel and CHRO, Blackstone brings a deep understanding of what success looks like in these functions and designs bespoke searches that value both content and character. The company believes in personal attention, long term relationships, and uncompromising quality, engaging closely with clients to understand context, drivers, and success criteria before activating a targeted search through its trusted senior network. Rather than delivering stacks of resumes, Blackstone introduces leaders who take responsibility and deliver results. Clients value the firm for its sector specific insight in legal and HR domains, its proven network of top professionals, and its commitment to excellence across executive search and interim solutions.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementLegal & ComplianceHuman Resources

HQHELMOND, Netherlands

Badenoch + Clark | LHH Recruitment Solutions

Badenoch + Clark | LHH Recruitment Solutions is a Netherlands based professional recruitment partner focused on guiding organizations and candidates through periods of growth, transition, and transformation. The firm delivers permanent recruitment, executive search, and interim management solutions, selecting experts with strong consulting profiles for management consulting firms as well as corporates that are professionalizing, scaling, or reorienting their strategies. Network driven and highly personal, its consultants know their candidate communities in depth and are trusted to fill key permanent roles typically in the 75K to 200K salary range, alongside senior interim assignments where immediate impact and seasoned expertise are critical. The team specializes across a broad set of disciplines that drive change, including strategy and innovation, change and program management, deals and integration, finance, accounting and risk, banking and insurance, procurement and supply chain, operational excellence and agile, data and analytics, digital and e commerce, and sales and marketing. Their client base spans multiple sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and wholesale, and they are equally comfortable advising boutique consulting environments and large enterprises. For interim management, Badenoch + Clark mobilizes an extensive network to provide rapid coverage, ensuring short time to shortlist and delivery of leaders who can stabilize, execute, and transfer knowledge. For executive search, the firm connects organizations with proven leaders who combine clear vision with execution strength, helping clients secure resilient leadership for transformational agendas. Across all services, the approach centers on close collaboration, careful assessment beyond the CV, and pragmatic strategy execution rather than report writing, enabling measurable and sustainable results. With a strong local presence and access to international talent networks, Badenoch + Clark | LHH Recruitment Solutions helps employers win the war for talent while offering candidates transparent guidance, discreet opportunities, and long term career support.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Software DevelopmentCybersecurityData Science

Elevate Consulting Group

Elevate Consulting Group is a Netherlands based Human Resources advisory firm that helps organizations improve performance at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Operating at the intersection of science and practice, the firm combines rigorous, validated methods with practical tools to deliver measurable impact. Its service portfolio spans e assessments and tailored solutions, team and individual assessments, executive and team coaching, and executive and professional search with a clear specialization in identifying sales talent. Elevate positions itself as an HR partner for attracting, selecting, and retaining talent, and is recognized for using licensed, evidence based instruments to predict performance and support sustainable growth. The team employs structured diagnostics and e assessments to inform selection, development, and succession decisions, while sales force analysis provides clients with clear insight into capability gaps, role fit, and potential. Coaching engagements focus on building the core enablers of growth self reflection, self confidence, and self management and translate personal insight into day to day performance improvements. In search, Elevate runs a thorough, methodology led process tailored to commercial and leadership profiles, emphasizing cultural fit, learning agility, and long term success in role. Clients value Elevate for its transparent approach, data informed recommendations, and hands on delivery from briefing through onboarding support. Headquartered in Rijswijk, Elevate Consulting Group B.V. partners with organizations seeking a reliable blend of analytics, assessment, and expert advisory to make better people decisions and accelerate results. Across all engagements, the firm aims to optimize performance, challenge the status quo, and enable both personal and company growth with 100 percent effort and a consistent commitment to excellence.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementSales & Business DevelopmentSenior Executives

Fornell Human Capital

Fornell Human Capital is a Netherlands based executive search and leadership consultancy that helps organizations appoint and develop top level leaders who can perform and adapt in a world of constant change. Operating as a generalist firm in the highest segment, the company works across private enterprise and the public domain, leveraging broad sector insight to assess leadership in context and avoid tunnel vision. Its core services include Executive Search for permanent C suite and senior management roles, Commissioners Search for non executive and supervisory board appointments, and Interim Search for time critical leadership needs. Complementary offerings such as executive assessments, learning agility analysis, executive coaching, and in company training on selecting agile talent enable clients to make better, evidence based decisions and build stronger internal selection capability. Fornell Human Capital emphasizes long term fit, leadership potential, adaptability, and personality, using carefully chosen and validated tools to inform decisions without reducing people to scores. The firm believes diverse teams make better decisions and therefore constructs balanced longlists and inclusive shortlists, aiming for sustainable team composition over transactional hiring. Acting as a partner rather than a traditional agency, its consultants translate market insights and practical experience into clear, structured processes that help boards and senior management define role context, reduce risk, and secure leaders who match phase, culture, and future goals. Working closely with client stakeholders, Fornell Human Capital codifies selection criteria into a validated assessment framework, aligns expectations early, and guides panels in behavioral interviewing to surface evidence of impact and learning capacity. Its approach blends search execution with leadership advisory so clients not only fill a role but also strengthen their capability to recognize potential, challenge biases, and make consistent appointments over time. Headquartered in the IJmuiden and Velsen Zuid area, the firm serves clients throughout the Netherlands and sources high caliber candidates internationally, true to its promise: Navigating Talent, Empowering Futures.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Government AdministrationLaw EnforcementMilitary & Defense

HQIJmuiden, Netherlands

Legal Hunters

Legal Hunters is a Netherlands based legal recruitment specialist founded in 2010 by Ilona Tjon Poen Gie and headquartered in Amsterdam. The firm focuses exclusively on legal talent, placing attorneys, candidate civil-law notaries, tax lawyers, and in-house counsel into permanent and interim appointments for law firms and corporate legal departments. Operating with a high-touch, consultative model, Legal Hunters supports careers from junior levels through partners and general counsel, combining deep legal expertise with current market insight to advise on fit, timing, and long term success. Its process is structured and transparent, beginning with an in-depth intake and search brief that clarifies context, defines success, and distinguishes must haves from nice to haves. Targeted search and direct approach methods yield carefully argued shortlists, followed by reference checks and offer strategy guidance. Post placement, the firm prioritizes onboarding and retention with ongoing check-ins and support for both client and candidate. Legal Hunters is committed to diversity and inclusion within the profession, a commitment reflected in the establishment of the Legal Woman Foundation by its founder. Clients value the firms personal, discrete, and reliable delivery, its extensive and relevant network, and a proven ability to attract entire teams or advise on team moves when appropriate. Testimonials from leading law firms and Dutch corporates recognize consistent results in both permanent and interim hiring. Services span permanent recruitment, executive search for senior legal leaders and partners, and contract staffing for interim legal professionals. Candidates benefit from pragmatic, tailored advice on positioning, interview preparation, offer negotiation, and transition, while clients receive bespoke solutions aligned to role requirements, culture, and long term objectives. Legal Hunters builds enduring relationships by aligning client goals with candidate motivations and by delivering outcomes that last.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)InsuranceInvestment ManagementFinTech

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

De Boer & associates

De Boer & associates is a boutique executive search firm in the Netherlands that connects organizations with inspired executives and high potentials through a distinctly personal and loyal approach. The firm invests early in building mutual understanding with every client, taking time to learn the organization, its culture and leadership needs so collaboration is effective from the start. Its method follows a clear arc of Verkennen, Vinden and Voltooien, moving from exploring context and requirements, to identifying and engaging qualified leaders, and completing the assignment with careful guidance, evaluation and support. De Boer & associates deliberately builds bridges, matches talent and combines experiences to create high quality connections, choosing its own distinctive position in the world of executive search. Trust and confidentiality are central: the firm does not publish client names or vacancies and only shares candidate information with explicit consent, ensuring that both clients and candidates remain in control of sensitive data at all times. Known for speed balanced with rigor, the team responds quickly to changing circumstances while maintaining a meticulous and respectful process that leads to successful, durable placements in defining leadership roles. An extensive database and a wide network of executives and high potentials enable decisive action without compromising quality. Director owner Kitty de Boer is recognized for an independent, energetic and results oriented style that reflects the firm’s culture and values, making clients and candidates feel at home and well supported. Beyond retained executive search, the firm offers TAAS and a structured, human centered way of working that keeps stakeholders informed, engaged and confident from initial briefing through completion. Operating from Den Haag, De Boer & associates partners with organizations that value long term relationships, discretion and excellence, delivering outcomes built on judgment, transparency and commitment.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAll industriesSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQZeist, Netherlands

Diverse Capital

Diverse Capital is a Netherlands based executive search firm headquartered in Utrecht that is dedicated to increasing diversity at the top of organizations. The firm believes diversity is the key to success and applies a holistic approach that looks beyond traditional tick box criteria to focus on complementarity in experience, expertise, background, age, gender, personality, and leadership style. Diversity for Diverse Capital includes not only gender and cultural background but also neurodivergence, such as ADHD, dyslexia, and high sensitivity, and the firm actively champions the added value these talents bring. When engaged to fill a leadership role, Diverse Capital starts with an in depth intake that goes well beyond the job description, conducting structured interviews with members of the management or executive team to understand the IST situation and the desired SOLL state across culture, leadership styles, and personalities. This insight informs a longlist that is intentionally diverse and a rigorous shortlisting and assessment process rooted in organizational psychology. The firm performs regular searches for permanent executive and senior management positions and, where relevant, introduces standout free card candidates to clients. It also helps employers attract diverse talent and supports the implementation of diversity policies so that new hires can thrive and teams can excel. The team is known for open and honest communication with both clients and candidates to prevent future mismatches, and for viewing candidates as whole people, assessing strengths, ambitions, preferred environments, and development points. Managing Partner Frank van Veen brings a background in assessment psychology and international HR experience at Mercedes Benz (Daimler), blending psychological assessment with headhunting to optimize fit across candidate, role, and culture. Partner Henriette Verbeem adds deep experience in communications, marketing, NGO, and education, and is a natural connector. Their recent mandates span professional services roles in accountancy, audit, and tax, technology and data leadership, and business development in energy and utilities, reflecting a strong cross industry capability to build high performing, diverse leadership teams.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentTotal Talent MgmtManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Cloud ComputingTelecomOil & Gas

HQUtrecht, Netherlands

FRESHE

FRESHE is an executive search and advisory firm dedicated to the legal, compliance, and non-executive markets, serving clients from its base in the Amsterdam area at Bavinckhouse, Prof. J.H. Bavincklaan 2, 1183 AT Amstelveen, The Netherlands. The firm partners with general counsel, chief compliance officers, boards, and senior leadership teams to appoint high caliber professionals to senior in-house legal and compliance roles, as well as non-executive and supervisory board positions. With a boutique approach, FRESHE combines disciplined research, deep market mapping, and rigorous assessment to deliver shortlists that balance proven expertise with future potential. Clients value the firm for its discretion, speed, and transparent communication, while candidates recognize a respectful, insight-led process that emphasizes cultural fit, governance standards, and long-term career impact. FRESHE provides end-to-end search across retained executive mandates, targeted permanent recruitment for senior individual contributor and leadership roles, and advisory projects that support succession planning, role design, compensation benchmarking, and board composition. The team is actively involved in the legal and governance community and continues to grow, welcoming new partners such as Friso van Deursen in November 2025 to expand coverage and strengthen client service. Whether building a first legal function, upgrading compliance capabilities in a regulated environment, or refreshing the composition of a supervisory board, FRESHE acts as a trusted thought partner to organizations across sectors. The firm operates with a commitment to inclusion, confidentiality, and ethical standards, and leverages a robust network to surface both visible and discreet talent. From initial briefing through appointment and onboarding, FRESHE delivers a hands-on, outcome-oriented methodology designed to reduce hiring risk and secure leaders who improve performance, resilience, and governance.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Technical WritingProject ManagementLegal & Compliance

Heiwegen Consultancy

Heiwegen Consultancy is a recruitment and talent advisory firm focused on helping organizations secure high caliber professionals and leaders. Combining market research, structured assessment, and a relationship driven approach, the firm partners with hiring teams to design role profiles, define success criteria, and deliver shortlists that balance technical capability with cultural fit. Its services span permanent recruitment for specialist and management positions, executive search and interim management for board, director, and mission critical leadership roles, and contract staffing to quickly deploy experienced professionals on time bound initiatives. Consultants conduct thorough briefings, build targeted search strategies, map relevant talent pools, and run competency based interviews supported by skills and psychometric evaluations when required. Clients benefit from clear process governance, transparent communication, and measurable milestones from kick off through onboarding, including reference checks, offer negotiation, and post placement follow up to strengthen retention. Heiwegen Consultancy maintains an active network of candidates across corporate functions and growth disciplines, and leverages digital sourcing, referrals, and direct headhunting to access both active and passive talent. The firm provides market insights such as salary benchmarks, availability trends, and competitor analysis to inform workforce planning and hiring decisions, and promotes inclusive hiring by widening outreach and mitigating bias through structured selection. With an emphasis on confidentiality, data protection, and compliance with applicable regulations, Heiwegen Consultancy aligns each engagement to client brand, values, and timelines, scaling resource levels to meet urgent or complex mandates. Whether supporting a startup with a first key hire or a mature enterprise with leadership succession, the team delivers a tailored, high touch service that reduces time to hire and improves long term outcomes for both clients and candidates.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives

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