/Strategy and operations
We work inside your company, not above it.
Independent advisors for founder-led companies, in the room from the first question to the last result.
Trusted by founder-led companies in 14 countries
TESSEL
Holm
kaira
BRENNA
lumo
Vardø
/About Linden
Linden is a small team of operators and strategists. We have run plants, raised rounds and sat on boards. Now we help founders make the few decisions that matter, and we stay until they work.
Engagements since 2014, each one led by a partner from the first call to the last result.
120+
Countries where our clients run plants, clinics, stores and fleets.
14
Clients who come back for a second engagement.
9 in 10
/Services
Four ways we help.
We take on a few engagements a year, each led by a partner from the first call to the last result.
01
Strategy
Where to play, how to win, and what to stop doing.
Market maps
Portfolio choices
Three-year plan
02
Operations
Processes, teams and tools that scale without you in every meeting.
Lead time
Cost
Organisation
03
Growth
New markets, pricing and the commercial engine to get there.
Pricing
Market entry
Sales
04
Board & leadership
An experienced voice in the room when the stakes are high.
Interim roles
Board seats
CEO coaching
/Selected work
Results our clients can measure.
Tessel Foods
Operations
·
2025
Lead time cut from 21 to 9 days across four plants.
Result
−57%
lead time
Duration
9 months
Read the case
Holm Freight
Strategy
·
2024
A new hub network that paid for itself in 14 months.
Result
14 mo
payback
Duration
6 months
Read the case
Kaira Clinics
Growth
·
2025
From one city to three countries, with the same margin.
Result
3
new countries
Duration
18 months
Read the case
/How we work
Three steps. No two-hundred-page decks.
Diagnose
2 weeks
We spend time where the work happens: on the floor, in the numbers, with your team.
Decide
4 weeks
Three options, one recommendation, and every trade-off written down.
Deliver
3 to 9 months
We stay to make it work, then hand over to a team that runs it without us.
“They asked the questions we had avoided for two years. Six months later we had a plan the whole company believed in.”
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Ingrid Solberg
CEO, Tessel Foods
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/Partners
Small team. Senior people.
Henrik Aas
Founding partner
Former COO. Twenty years in food and logistics.
Marta Vos
Partner, growth
Built pricing teams in three scale-ups.
Jonas Brekke
Partner, leadership
Sits on four boards. Coaches first-time CEOs.
/Insights
