Vol. 01 · Late Summer 2026 · Amsterdam / International
A stage for leadership · Profit & non-profit

Every leader

has a season.

Long-form conversations with the leaders of growing companies, the international research read for you, and a stage for your own news — every piece placed in the season the organisation is really in.

Read the conversations The four seasons
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One platform.
Three doors.

One subject: leadership and growing companies. The conversations, the research, and the stage for your own news.

The index.
Vol. 01 · Scale-up Leaders
All conversations →
Read by season,
not by rank.

A founder finding first traction and a director steadying a mature institution are not doing versions of the same job. Naming the season is what makes leadership advice useful again.

Spring · Growth spurtThe Founder

Sets pace from the front, hires fast, and builds belief faster than the org chart can keep up.

Summer · Crisis modeThe Builder

Makes the calls under real pressure and is comfortable cutting what no longer fits.

Autumn · InnovationThe Strategist

Builds the operating system underneath growth and aligns the team around fewer bets.

Winter · ConsolidationThe Reset

A steady hand when the noise is loudest. Prepares the ground for the next spring.

The Seasonal Leader framework — Ineke Kooistra. Read the whitepapers → · Which season are you in? →

Your news has a season.
Give it a stage.

Press releases, research and publications from scale-ups, investors and knowledge institutions — designed with care, published permanently, read by the right people.

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On stage · Gino Jacobs — Profound
Stay in season

Read what we publish,
before everyone else.

Every so often we send a short note: the newest research we have read for you, a leader's interview worth your time, and the occasional practical insight on leading through the seasons. No noise, just the good part.