


YOUR IMPACT-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP
PARTNER
A Boutique Executive Search and Leadership Advisory Firm
Worldwide reach, Local expertise,
True engagement
EXECUTIVES FINLAND partners with companies on critical leadership and talent matters and focus on delivering impact
As a Trusted Advisor, we provide market insight, strategic perspective, and guidance that goes beyond identifying the right candidates. Every leadership decision is designed to drive business impact, strengthen strategic direction, build stakeholder trust, and create long-term value.
As Modern Partner, we combine innovative, uncommon approaches with proven traditional practices, helping clients navigate complex decisions with clarity and confidence.
Meaningful Engagements. Daily business, special emphasis on consultation, open dialogue, feedback, and insight with the customers and candidates are executed. We devote to serve our customers and candidates with the highest quality and customer experience.
THE EXECUTIVES METHOD
Executive Search traditionally focuses either on the objective criteria (CV, background, experiences, and competences) or the subjective criteria (leadership style, working style, and personal characteristics).
At Executives Finland, we combine both to find candidates who meet the experience and competence criteria, and have the needed leadership and personal qualities, including related future potential.


PRACTICE AREAS
We search for a variety of roles and levels (executives, managers, senior specialists) in multiple industries, such as
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Aviation,
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Construction,
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Financial Services,
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Healthcare,
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Manufacturing,
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Non profit,
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Pharma,
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Retail and FMCG,
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Technology,
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Variety of other professional services (e.g. textile, real estate, infrastructure, facility and environmental services)
We willingly provide client references. Please contact us to learn more
ENEX GLOBAL EXECUTIVE SEARCH
We are ENEX Global Executive Search network partner. ENEX is an established and reputable international organisation composed by fully independent owner managed companies in the field of Executive Search, Direct Search and Interim Management.
ENEX has 50 offices, spread over all continents. Since our establishment in 1980, ENEX has played a key role in helping organizations acquire Talent for Middle, Senior and Top Management positions around the Globe. ENEX stands for Worldwide Reach, Local expertise & True engagement.

EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Driven by your business needs and defining the impact, we tailor-made an in-depth search, where an agile approach, wide networks, and variable tools support us to find the candidates to deliver the impact.
With insightful discussions on strategy, leadership, and impact and with a career-coaching approach, inspiring candidate-encounters are emphasized.
In our modern digital tool, the real time project outlook, candidate pipelines and statuses are available.
We support all participants during the process, and the selected person successfully to take over the new role and responsibilities.
We have great colleagues in all the continents, which allows us to cooperate, coordinate, and support your recruitment globally.
In addition to different headhunting services (we have developed four concepts/solutions), we support our clients through other recruitment methods, e.g. advertisement search.
Let us discuss more, how to differentiate and succeed together!
ASSESSMENT
By a multi-method approach, and focusing on the tests that truly assess the performance at work, we provide our client and the candidates with an in-depth analysis on the strengths, development areas, and overall suitability.
Next generation assessment tools and tailor-made business cases form the basis for the assessment to produce the most useful, valid, and reliable information.
A special emphasis on candidate experience is emphasized, and a career-coaching feedback discussions are conducted.
ADVERTISEMENT SEARCH
An inspiring job advertisement on relevant mediasmarkets your company, presents the role, and provides a primary candidate pipeline.
The whole process is conducted efficiently and by support with our recruitment tool.
All the candidates are provided with the feedback, and every phase supports your employer image.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
An agile interventions to recognize current strengths and challenges of management group performance as a basis for further development.
* An assessment and development of a management team member’s leadership style (individual level).
* A comprehensive Management Audit to assess management team composition and suitability (individual and group levels).
* Executive Readiness Assessment (ERA) translates investment thesis into the required leadership capabilities and evaluates execution readiness. A dedicated service for Private Equity firms and organizations with M&A initiatives.

OUR PROMISES
Companies succeed and fail through their people.
We are the trusted partner in helping flexibly our customers to reach their goals. We build on long relationships we develop together.
Impact-Focused Value Promises:
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Strategic Leadership Insight, identifying leaders with proven ability to drive business results
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Meaningful Engagements, creating forward-looking dialogues that uncover leadership potential
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Impact-Focused Decisions, supporting leadership choices that strengthen strategy and drive results
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Innovative Approach, combining unconventional methods with proven practices to solve complex leadership challenges
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Efficient Execution, ensuring smooth processes, timely delivery, and actionable guidance
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Exceeding Expectations, going beyond the basics to create lasting value for clients and candidates.
- Jaana Ylipaavalniemi, Founder
Executives Finland Oy

JAANA YLIPAAVALNIEMI
SENIOR EXECUTIVE SEARCH CONSULTANT, FOUNDER
Experienced business and people professional, with 20+ years of experience in serving companies and working as a strategic partner in people related matters and development.
Industrial and Organizational Special Psychologist (Psyc.Lic.)
Tel: +358 44 978 0202
jaana.ylipaavalniemi(at)executivesfinland.fi
ENEX Global Offices
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Japan +81 80 3129 6274
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Spain +34 93 206 31 02
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The Netherlands +31 345 623 604
USA +1 (844) 833-4222
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EXECUTIVES FINLAND OY
Your modern partner in people issues
Find us:
Korkeavuorenkatu 39 A, HELSINKI
Hatanpään valtatie 24 (Dynamo Business Park), TAMPERE
Postal address:
Hallituskatu 15 B
33200 Tampere
P. 044 978 0202