Services · Ineke Kooistra · Four ways to move forward

Services · Four ways

The brief decides the shape.

Sometimes that's stepping in to lead. Sometimes it's one sharp day with your team. Sometimes it's a seat alongside a portfolio company, or finding the permanent leader the moment calls for. Four forms, one starting question.

When it's complex, I simplify. When it's stuck, I move it forward.

01

Interim & Fractional CEO

Step in. Lead. Hand over.

When the chair needs an experienced operator at the helm.

My approach combines strategic vision with hands-on execution, ensuring stability today and sustainable growth tomorrow. Founders, boards and shareholders engage me when the moment is critical, when the right call, made at the right time, makes all the difference.

EngagementShort- and long-term commitments · Full-time interim · Fractional 2–4 days/week · 3–12 months typical

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Strategic Acceleration

One day. Sharper decisions.

When strategy is clear but momentum slows.

Many organisations don't suffer from a lack of strategy. What slows them down is unclear choices, leadership dynamics inside the management team, or a missing execution rhythm.

Markets have become more demanding. Growth is less automatic. Competition moves faster and investors expect sharper results. In that environment, founders and CEOs often feel the organisation needs to re-accelerate. Not by creating more plans, but by making better decisions and aligning leadership around execution.

That is where the Strategic Acceleration Session comes in. In one focused working day with founders, CEOs or management teams, I work through priorities, decision rights, and the operating rhythm that turns intent into action. The outcome is concrete: a leadership team that leaves the room aligned, sharper and ready to move.

FormatSingle day · Recurring cadence · Quarterly rhythm with leadership team

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One focused day

03

Operating Partner

PE cycle. Operator's view.

For PE firms and portfolios that need senior operational firepower.

For companies looking to add senior operational firepower to their portfolio, I am available as an Operating Partner for one to three days per week.

I bring a full PE-cycle perspective: ten years as Group CEO of YoungCapital (from early growth to European market leadership) and Group CEO of Circle8 under Axiom Partners, co-responsible for the buy-and-build into a multi-label group headquartered in Zurich.

Where I see the strongest impact is with portfolio companies that have growing pains, need to accelerate value creation, or have stalled and need to move again. I work alongside the portfolio CEO as sparring partner, strategic accelerator, or hands-on where it matters.

Engagement1–3 days per week · Portfolio-level or single-company · Full cycle perspective

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Executive Search · ELiN

Context over pedigree.

Board and C-level search for organisations building what's next.

Future-fit leaders, matched with care. ELiN Partners is the executive search practice I co-founded with Elbrich Batstra. We focus on leadership readiness for the actual challenge in front of the business, not on titles and pedigrees that look right on paper but don't move the work forward.

Search is one of the four ways I help. When a client conversation makes clear that the right answer is bringing in a permanent leader rather than an interim, advisor or accelerator, I introduce them to the ELiN team and we work the brief together.

Two perspectives, one conversation. A CEO and a CHRO who have worked side by side at scale. Different lenses on the same question: who, exactly, do you need at the helm right now?

MandateBoard · C-suite · Senior leadership · Fixed placement fee

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Not sure which fits?

Let's find the right shape.

Most introductory conversations take thirty minutes. The shape becomes clear in the first ten, and we'll only proceed if the moment actually calls for it.

WhatsApp ineke@intermanage.nl →