Ingvardsen Partners

Ingvardsen Partners is an executive search and executive services firm that counts itself among the most well-regarded teams in Scandinavia in both disciplines. Its focus is the top of the organisation: C-level appointments, functional directors and chairs of the board. Alongside search it has delivered leadership development, board evaluations, assessments, executive coaching and organisational advice to a long list of the most ambitious companies in the region. The firm describes itself as experienced and as known for delivering uncompromising quality at a very high level.

Five services are set out on the site: executive search, bestyrelsesevaluering or board evaluation, leadership assessments, organisational design, and a trusted adviser role. The firm is led by founder and managing partner Ole Dahl Ingvardsen alongside managing partner Pia Torreck and senior partner Kristian Scheef Madsen, with Bibi Boas Bondesen as executive search director and head of research. The wider team includes a senior executive search consultant, executive search consultants, search associates and a search analyst, so that research and delivery are staffed as distinct disciplines within the practice.

Ingvardsen Partners also maintains an international network of partner firms so that a search can reach beyond its home market. Those partners are Novare in Sweden, led by chief executive Fredrik Hillelson, Visindi in Norway, represented by partner Christian Heiberg, Fairchild in Finland, whose managing partner is Johan Stierncreutz, and Selion Global in Asia, founded by Cecile Hofer and Thomas Hofer. Alongside its assignments the firm publishes books and runs events, and it organises its work both by service area and by the sectors it covers. Clients approaching Ingvardsen Partners are typically appointing at board or executive committee level.