FOR CEOS AND DECISION MAKERS

Executive Advisory & Implementation

A trusted council for the CEO while the big move is actually happening.

Ongoing sparring and hands-on support for the moves that matter — a strategic transition, an M&A, a purpose repositioning, a paradigm-scale bet.

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You may recognise this.

Illustrative — the kind of thing a CEO in the middle of a move might say.

“The deal is signed. The integration is where it will be won or lost — and my team is not saying what they really think.”
“The numbers support the decision. Something in me is still not sure, and I have nowhere to put that.”
“I have plenty of advisers on the money. Fewer for what this move is doing to the people who have to carry it.”

If one of these sounds like your week, this page is for you.

A strategic council to get unstuck.

Executive Advisory is the council a CEO has beside them while the move is under way. We advise, we sense, and we help you execute. Rolling, with a monthly cadence as the minimum.

It is built for big moves like these:

A strategic transition — a new direction, a new structure, a new chapter for the company.
An M&A — before the deal, and in the longer stretch after it, when two cultures have to become one organisation.
A purpose repositioning — when what the company stands for has to change, and the change has to be believed inside before it is believed outside.
A paradigm-scale bet — a decision that may define the next decade, with the AI shift often somewhere in it.

In moves like these, money and meaning have to be decided in the same room. That is the room we sit in with you.

You excel at leading by the numbers. We excel at leading by meaning & numbers.

We advise. We sense. We help you execute.

We advise. — Straight sparring on the decisions in front of you: the strategy, the sequencing, the people, the governance. We have sat in your chair, so the conversation starts where yours already is — with the numbers, the timelines and the board.

We sense. — Under most big moves sits a second one. The deal, the restructuring or the new strategy is the surface. Underneath, your organisation is often quietly deciding whether it still believes in where you are taking it. We read that undercurrent: the coherence of your executive team, what is not being said in the room, and your own inner knowing as the leader — the part of you that often sees the problem before the dashboard does. What you cannot see, your organisation quietly repeats.

We help you execute. — We stay close while the decisions land — so that what was clear in our conversation is still clear on Monday morning, in your team, in your board, in the organisation.

The founding partners

We are former executives at multinationals, growth businesses and family-owned enterprises across Europe.

Mario HanecaFounding Partner, Eye Opener
Nienke van BezooijenFounding Partner, Stabilizer.
Elsbeth van LiendenFounding Partner, Catalyst

Depending on the move, you work with one of us, with two, or with all three.

Which one fits where you are?

Choose

the Relevance Session

when there is one question you keep turning over, and you want to leave the room with a clear next move.

One question
90 minutes
€995