Ineke Kooistra
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Ineke Kooistra.

Essays, columns and reflections on leadership, executive search and the seasons of organisations. From the operator's chair.

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2025 LinkedIn Pulse NL

Het is tijd om na 12 jaar een CEO te vervangen.

Wanneer is een leider echt op? En wat het verschil maakt tussen een goede overdracht en een rommelige.

2026 LinkedIn Pulse NL

Executive search op een kruispunt.

Tijd voor een nieuwe aanpak. Waarom de oude executive search niet meer werkt en wat in de plaats moet komen.

2025 LinkedIn Pulse EN

The CEO Dilemma: Master of One Season or All Seasons?

The essay that introduced the Seasonal CEO framework. Why one leader rarely fits every phase of a business.

2025 BusinessWise NL

Waarom je kroonprins te vroeg promoveren een kostbare fout is.

Over opvolging: de fout die boards en founders telkens weer maken.

February 2026 LinkedIn Pulse NL

Wie ben je op LinkedIn en wie ben je echt?

Over identiteit, authenticiteit en hoe makkelijk het is om jezelf te laten optimaliseren door een tool.

24 November 2025 LinkedIn Pulse EN

Discipline Is Not Strictness, It Is Clarity.

Why the most disciplined leaders feel the least rigid, and what makes that possible.

24 November 2025 LinkedIn Pulse EN

Ajax Crises.

What a football club teaches us about boards, succession, and what happens when leadership is not in alignment with the phase.

20 September 2025 LinkedIn Pulse EN

The Danger of Stagnation.

Growth that has slowed is rarely a strategy problem. It is almost always a leadership-alignment problem.

8 September 2025 LinkedIn Pulse EN

The Hostage Situation.

What you keep because losing it costs too much. Why this becomes a quiet kind of trap at the top.

20 July 2025 LinkedIn Pulse EN

Leadership Without the Mask.

Why I choose to be myself. A personal essay on what changes when you stop performing the role and start inhabiting it.

Ongoing ELiN · Series EN

Bright Leadership Reflections.

Long-form interview series with leaders Ineke most admires. Marit van Egmond, Marion van Happen, Debbie Klein.

2025 BusinessWise NL

The McKinsey AI Hack: safety is the new productivity.

Panel piece with Guido Pot. Why CEOs should tie cybersecurity to their bonus, and what autonomous AI agents mean for the boardroom.

Recurring MT/Sprout · Column NL

MT/Sprout columns.

Recurring column on leadership, execution and the operator's view of growth-stage management.

2025 LinkedIn Pulse NL

Servant Leadership: leading from the heart.

On what it means to lead in service of the company and its people, not in service of your own title.

Ongoing LinkedIn NL · EN

Recent posts and short-form reflections.

Shorter pieces, comments, and conversation starters published directly to LinkedIn. The most current view of what Ineke is thinking about.