Eric Partaker opens a LinkedIn headline with "The CEO Coach | CEO of the Year | McKinsey, Skype | Bestselling Author" and writes from London to about 1.2 million followers. At MagicPost, we analyzed 931 of Partaker's LinkedIn posts from the last two years.
Partaker writes posts nearly twice as long as the average creator (336 words against 184), then cuts them into paragraphs of eight words.
Eric Partaker's story, in the posts
Partaker's feed is mostly teaching, so the personal chapters are few and short. They still sketch a career in four steps.
The consultant years. "At McKinsey, I advised Fortune 50 CEOs on how to run their companies. I never once asked myself the same hard questions I was asking them." The price comes in three fragments: "Red-eye flights. Hotel rooms in a different city every week. 16-hour days..."
The burnout is framed as a gap between advice and practice: "I was advising the best-run companies in the world, and running myself into the ground." That gap is exactly what a coach sells to close.
The CEO chair. "I learned this the hard way in my 2nd year as CEO," opens one of the biggest posts of 2026. An older post adds scale: "I've hired 1000s of people over my career."
The coach. "I've coached 600+ CEOs over the last decade," a January 2026 post begins. The same post announces a cohort of "The Founder & CEO Accelerator" with "60+ CEOs who've already enrolled."
The author. In August 2026, Partaker announced "Ultraproductive, our new book with Penguin Random House," co-written, and tied it straight back to the McKinsey burnout.
Client results get their own format. One case study quotes a client whose firm "5x'ed revenue to 200 million"; another reports "Profit jumped from 26% to 37%." Those two earned 306 and 272 likes, far under the 1,656 median. The case study closes sales; reach comes from elsewhere.
A kindness story with a five-year gap shows up twice in 2026. In April 2026, a former team member Partaker "hadn't spoken to in over 5 years" writes to say one conversation changed how she saw her own potential.
In August, a stranger helped for "20 minutes" in a parking garage turns up, "5 years" on, as a VP. Different people, same shape: a small act, a five-year gap, a thank-you.
And the April post reuses, word for word, the line that opened the biggest post of the year in January: "Some KPIs take years to reveal their true impact."
The January post closes on a quote credit to another writer; in April, the same line comes back framed by Partaker's own team-member story. Two of the four biggest 2026 posts, 23,091 likes between them, stand on that one sentence.
What does Eric Partaker post about?
Leadership is the home base: 641 posts, six times the next theme, with management (107) and coaching (69) far behind. It also performs, at 1,971 median likes against an overall 1,656.
Entrepreneurship is the quiet spot: 52 posts, 476 median likes, about a quarter of leadership's.
Management holds level: 1,893 median likes on 107 posts.
The audience follows Partaker for how to lead people, much less for how to build a company.
Sorted by register rather than topic, the largest bucket is selling through value (380 posts), then webinar and program sign-ups (222), then punchy standalone advice (194). Add lead magnets (41) and launches (33): posts that carry an offer outnumber pure advice about three and a half to one.
The audience does not seem to mind, because the offer arrives last, under a post that has already delivered its lesson.
Who Eric Partaker writes for
The reader is named in a case-study post: "if you're a CEO who's keen to scale, while upgrading your leadership and personal performance along the way."
The circle is wider than the title, though. Of the nine CEO mindsets, Partaker writes: "They're not just for CEOs. They're for anyone who wants to lead at the highest level."
The offers match both readers. For CEOs, the Founder & CEO Accelerator, by application. For everyone else, free material: "PDFs of 100+ leadership resources," a newsletter with "60+ infographics," and "Eric AI, giving founders & CEOs free practical guidance 24x7."
Eric Partaker's best posts of 2026
The three biggest posts of 2026 so far, reproduced from our data (click through to the originals, or browse 2M+ posts like these in MagicPost):
13,662 likes. A business word (KPI) carrying a human idea, then six numbered steps with sentences split across lines, and a quote credit to another writer at the very end. The closing offer is a free resource pack, not the accelerator.
10,965 likes. A two-line hook that states a cost, then "6 green flags" to check against a real workplace. Its 1,586 reposts are the most of any 2026 post in our data: a checklist is something people forward to their boss.
10,167 likes. The only one of the three that opens on a first-person CEO memory, before "7 signs" with an arrow under each. It ends on a direct question, and 762 readers answered in the comments.
Is Eric Partaker still growing on LinkedIn?
The median post went from 2,943 likes in 2024 to 1,893 in 2025 and 1,421 so far in 2026, while output jumped from 209 analyzed posts to 509. More posts, each spread a little thinner.
That is the reach-compression shape we measure across most large creators since 2024. The ceiling stayed high: the all-time record, a remote-work post opening "Our employees aren't children. - Spotify," reached 258,497 likes in January 2025, about 156 times the median.
Our 2026 rankings confirm the standing: #6 among the top LinkedIn creators in the UK, #7 among the top LinkedIn coaches, #5 among the top LinkedIn creators on management and #7 on personal development.
The medians measure how hard the posts hit. We do not hold follower counts over time.
Where do these charts come from? Everything on this page runs on MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics, and it works on your profile too: your best posts, your audience, your benchmark, even a side-by-side with creators like Eric Partaker.
How Eric Partaker writes
Metric (per post) | Eric Partaker | Average creator* |
Words | 336 | 184 |
Words in the hook | 8 | 11 |
Words per paragraph | 8 | 13 |
Words per sentence | 6 | 10 |
Emojis | 3 | 2 |
Exclamation marks | 0 | 1 |
Posts with hashtags | 0% | 0% |
Hooks built on numbers | 56% | 22% |
*Median across the 3,471 creators in our benchmark.
A Partaker post runs 1.8 times the average length. At eight words per paragraph, that makes roughly forty paragraphs per post. Single sentences get split across two lines ("When we talk about leaving a legacy, / we often focus on the numbers."), so the line break sets the pace.
The second gap is the hook. 56% of hooks open on a number ("6 ways," "7 signs," "600+ CEOs"), two and a half times the norm; only 6% open on a question. The number promises a list, and the list justifies the length.
Then the zeros: no hashtags, no bold, no exclamation marks. The three emojis per post work as signposts for the repost, the follow and the free resource. The one-word label our system gives the style is structured.
The "AI tells" in Eric Partaker's style (read this the right way)
Partaker's posts return again and again to one of the patterns people now call "AI tells":
Almost half the posts (47%) use the contrast formula, a denial followed by the correction ("Culture isn't what you say it is. It's what your people experience daily."). It is the only device at "characteristic" level here.
Further down, about a quarter of posts close on a postscript or lean on a generic advice frame, and a fifth open with a here-is announcement.
AI writes like Partaker. Generic models learned these moves from leadership creators of this kind and now stack them in every post. Partaker leans on one, the contrast, and uses the rest sparingly.
The postscript is the clearest case. Generic AI drafts tack one on as filler; for Partaker, it is where the business lives, the accelerator invitation. Two devices never appear at all: hedging and the "Moreover" transition opener. (More on the patterns: how to spot AI writing on LinkedIn.)
When does Eric Partaker post on LinkedIn?
Partaker publishes about 9 times a week, favorite slot Tuesday at 1 PM London time. Not one analyzed post went out in the local morning, and 27% land on weekends.
That lunch-hour habit matches the midday window in our UK timing data, and the volume sits at the high end of our posting-frequency study.
The comment sections are busy too: a median of 404 comments per post, about one for every four likes. At nine posts a week, an engagement feed is the practical way to catch each one without combing the timeline.
What to steal from Eric Partaker
Write long, breathe short. 336 words at eight per paragraph.
Put a number in the first line. 56% of the hooks do, and each sets up a list.
Save the offer for the end. Offer posts outnumber pure advice 3.5 to 1, lesson first.
Reuse a line that landed. The KPI line carried 23,091 likes across two posts, the second inside a first-person story.
Stay where the audience listens. Leadership earns four times what entrepreneurship does.
Study the CEO coach, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can dig into Eric Partaker's numbers the way we just did, analyze your own LinkedIn analytics with the same depth, and write in the spirit of this style, in your own voice. The data on this page is the product.
The posts behind this profile
Every quote above comes from one of Eric Partaker's own public LinkedIn posts. The ones that carry the story:
Where this data comes from
Everything in this article is MagicPost's own research. MagicPost analyzed 931 Eric Partaker posts from the last two years: timing, engagement, topics, writing metrics, and the AI-pattern profile from a 30-post style sample.
Every biographical claim is quoted from one of Partaker's own public LinkedIn posts, listed above. Eric Partaker is not affiliated with MagicPost; this style is one of those MagicPost tracks most closely.
FAQ
Who is Eric Partaker?
Eric Partaker is a London-based CEO coach with about 1.2 million LinkedIn followers, whose headline lists McKinsey, Skype, "CEO of the Year" and "Bestselling Author." Partaker runs The Founder & CEO Accelerator and reports having "coached 600+ CEOs over the last decade."
How does Eric Partaker make money?
According to the posts, Eric Partaker makes money from the Founder & CEO Accelerator, sold by application in cohorts, plus CEO coaching and the book Ultraproductive. The free layer (newsletter, leadership PDFs, Eric AI) feeds those offers.
How often does Eric Partaker post on LinkedIn?
Eric Partaker posts about 9 times a week in our data, most often on Tuesday at 1 PM London time, never in the morning, with 27% of posts on weekends.
Does Eric Partaker write with AI?
Eric Partaker's posts carry none of the usual filler: no hedging, no hashtags, no exclamation marks. AI tools learned from creators like Partaker, which is why 47% of the posts carry the contrast formula people now mistake for an AI tell.
Is Eric Partaker still growing on LinkedIn?
Eric Partaker's median likes per post fell from 2,943 (2024) to 1,421 (2026) as output more than doubled, a pattern common to large creators. Four 2026 posts still passed 9,000 likes.
Can I write like Eric Partaker?
You can learn the mechanics: MagicPost learns a creator's writing style (length, rhythm, hooks, signature moves) and helps you write in that spirit, in your own voice.
