A stage for leadership. Long-form conversations with the leaders of growing companies, their publications and press, and a research desk that reads the international work for you. These are the companies and leaders to watch. They are laying the foundations for a new generation of business.
One subject: leadership and growing companies, profit and non-profit alike. Here you find the conversations with the leaders, their publications and press releases, and the international research, read and interpreted for you.
Long-form interviews with the founders and CEOs of scale-ups, in their own words, placed in the season their company is really in. Curated and edited with care.
Meet the leaders → 02Your press release, research or announcement, properly designed and permanently published, with a link back to your own site. For companies and non-profits alike.
Publish your news → 03The new international research on leadership and growth, summarised in plain language and always linked to the original, followed by The iN Season view. Academic work is published free, always.
Enter the desk →Keep an eye on these leaders. They build companies that outgrow them on purpose, and they inspire far beyond their own market.
Most leadership coverage tells you who won. Almost none tells you what season they were in when they decided. That is the idea behind seasonal leadership: the right leader for the season a company is in.
HIGH SEASON is a stage for the people building growth companies, and a window into the companies themselves. These are companies and leaders to keep an eye on: they are laying the foundations for a new generation of business, in how they grow, how they decide, and how they treat the people doing the work.
Every conversation is long-form and in the leader's own words, and every one is placed in a season: the phase the organisation is actually in, and what that phase demands. For investors and boards it is a genuine look inside companies and the people running them. For the leaders themselves it is a serious platform, not a paid award.
We publish one genre at a time and go deep. Scale-up leaders first. Over the coming months we widen: the AI officers rewiring how organisations decide, and the culture builders who make companies worth staying at. Profit and non-profit, because leadership lives in both.
Leadership effectiveness is not static. It is seasonal. Every leader here is placed in the season their organisation is actually in.
Sets pace from the front, hires fast, energises early teams, and builds belief faster than the org chart can keep up.
Makes the calls under real pressure, translates urgency into clarity, and is comfortable cutting what no longer fits.
Builds the operating system underneath growth, aligns the team around fewer bets, and knows when to slow down to speed up.
A steady hand when the noise is loudest. Simplifies structure and decisions, and prepares the ground for the next spring.
The Seasonal Leader framework, Ineke Kooistra’s take on seasonal leadership. Read the whitepapers →
A press release, a milestone, your own research: designed and published permanently, with a link back to your site and a tile ready for LinkedIn.
How publishing works →International research on leadership and growth, in plain language, linked to the source and followed by The iN Season view. Academic work is free, always.
Enter the research desk →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.
Tell us your story and we will tell you whether it is a fit. We publish one conversation at a time.
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