Executive

Executive+ is a boutique executive search office that concentrates on director and board appointments, and whose motto is that it does not search, it finds. It has been owned since 2011 by Sijanka Lievaart, who brings more than 25 years of experience across executive search, employment mediation and entrepreneurship. The approach is described as both people-centred and data-driven, and it starts from genuinely understanding where an organisation wants to go and getting to know its culture and its people. Communication about the profile, the assignment and the timeline is set out clearly and openly with defined delivery moments, and the company states that every assignment is filled successfully.

Executive+ works with corporates, family businesses, private equity and entrepreneurial organisations in transition. The positions it has filled recently include a COO at Kuijpers, Director Heating and Cooling at Essent, Managing Director of BYD Nederland, HSEQ Director at Equans, Medical Director at Arbo Unie, CPO at Compass Group, CEO at HelloContainer, Vice President HR Europe at Lineage and Director of Sustainable Energy and Networks at Equans. Only a limited number of live vacancies are published because of the confidential nature of the work, and those shown include a general director for MKBasics, a subsidiary of Arbo Unie, and a strategic and transformational director role at Essent.

The search itself runs in five steps: an inventory of the challenges, the phase the organisation is in and the content of the assignment through 360 degree conversations; a target profile written with an eye for the individual and their unique qualities; market research that reaches the full market rather than a database; screening and interviewing to select the best candidates; and a shortlist presented together with feedback from the market that helps the client's employer branding. The company gives Kasteel Dussen Binnen 1 in Dussen as its reception address, publishes its Chamber of Commerce number 70613419, and runs the site in Dutch and English.