Eric Partaker
Founder & CEO at Eric Partaker's Founder & CEO Accelerator
Eric Partaker coaches CEOs on leadership, culture, and strategy through tactical, polarizing insights backed by his 650+ client experience.
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Posting style
How they open posts
The first 220 characters of a LinkedIn post are what shows in the feed — these are the recurring shapes they use to get the click.
Contrarian Reframe
Opens with a statement that inverts common belief or reveals a hidden truth, often using "isn't" or "aren't" to redirect audience expectations.
“Your values aren't your culture.”
“Your team's happiness isn't luck. It's leadership.”
Statistic-Backed Authority
Opens with a striking percentage or data point tied to a problem CEOs face, establishing credibility through research or observed patterns.
Personal Confession
Opens with a first-person admission of past struggle or mistake, creating vulnerability and relatability before pivoting to insight.
“I thought I was ready to be a CEO. (I wasn't even close.)”
“I used to pride myself on being busy.”
“I spent 12 years building the wrong career.”
Coach-to-Client Insight
Opens by referencing his experience coaching 600–650+ CEOs, establishing authority through accumulated pattern recognition.
“I've coached 650+ CEOs. What's the #1 thing that holds them back? Hiring the wrong people.”
“After coaching 650+ CEOs, I keep seeing the same pattern.”
“I've hired over 2,000 people in my career.”
Provocative Question
Opens with a rhetorical or direct question that frames a problem the audience likely faces, inviting self-reflection.
“Are you actually getting anything done?”
“Which are you? The distinction is simple.”
“How many times have you sat in a meeting and gone, "This could've been an email"?”
Content pillars
CEO Leadership & Decision-Making
28%Posts on what separates high-performing CEOs from the rest, including daily decision-making, leadership styles, and personal growth. Emphasizes that CEO effectiveness stems from mindset and behavior, not just strategy.
Company Culture & Team Dynamics
25%Posts on building healthy cultures, managing teams, hiring decisions, and how leadership behavior shapes organizational health. Focuses on culture as a competitive advantage and the real cost of poor hiring.
Strategy, Systems & Execution
24%Posts clarifying the difference between strategy and planning, frameworks for goal-setting, operational efficiency, and how systems drive execution. Heavy use of statistics about failed plans and strategy confusion.
Who they comment on
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What you can take from this
Use single-image posts (96% of content) paired with contrarian or reframed opening hooks—audiences respond to inverted truth claims like "Your values aren't your culture" more than generic advice.
Lead with specific statistics tied to CEO pain points ("90% can't explain strategy"; "25% of firings trace to broken board relationships") to establish authority without lengthy credentials.
Reference your client/coaching experience as a recurring narrative thread (650+ CEOs, 2000+ hires) rather than selling it directly; audiences trust pattern recognition over self-promotion.
Structure posts around a single insight paired with 3–7 numbered sub-points or short frameworks; this balance drives both comment engagement (300–700 per post) and shareability.
Alternate between tactical content (frameworks, time-management tips) and humanizing posts (kindness, vulnerability, personal failure)—the humanizing posts (8,700 and 7,672 reactions) outperform pure tactics.