Bendik Nicolai Blindheim is an executive search generalist with 15 years’ experience recruiting leaders and improving performance in a range of industries. A former management consultant, he also has broad business expertise and the ability to guide clients through complex challenges. He partners with executives, boards and owners to assess leadership needs and develop forward-thinking strategies.

Professional Focus

  • 15 years’ experience in executive search with additional background in management consulting
  • C-suite, senior executive and board-level search as well as leadership assessment, succession planning, human capital strategy and culture change
  • Broad industry expertise including energy, natural resources and cleantech, industrial and high tech, technology and healthcare/MedTech, and nonprofit organisations
  • Clients include private equity firms, large privately held, listed and government-owned companies
  • Proven expertise as an advisor on complex business undertakings such as post-merger integration and transformation
  • Native Norwegian, fluent in English

Business Expertise

  • Managing Partner at Norway’s leading executive search firm; prior roles as Partner and Administrative Director
  • Partner and Practice Lead, Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical at one of Norway’s largest executive search firms
  • Assignment Manager - Executive Search / Recruitment at a market-leading recruitment and talent advisory firm
  • Project Manager and Senior Advisor at a management consulting firm
  • Sales Manager at Visma, a leading Oslo-based business software firm
  • Forum Manager at Microsoft
  • Started career as a Researcher at a global leadership advisory and executive search firm

Education & Certifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Oslo Metropolitan University
  • Executive Education - Leading Professional Service Firms at Harvard Business School
  • Certified Olympic Coach and Business Coach, University of Agder and Olympiatoppen
  • OPQ, G+, Hogan, Cut-e Certifications

Affiliations & Awards

  • Board Member, Webstep, a listed software consulting company
  • Board Member, LORN.TECH, tech startup
  • Former European Council Member and Nomination Committee Member, AESC (Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants)
  • Former Chair of the Nomination Committee for UNICEF Norway for three years

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