Who will lead your organisation tomorrow – respect or chaos?
The working environment is constantly evolving, and diversity — in age, culture, experience, values, and worldview — is becoming an increasingly central element of organisational life. Yet, actual growth is only possible when leadership is grounded in respect, inclusion, and shared understanding.
As part of the ARENAS project, the team from the Latvian partner Creative Ideas participated in a thought-provoking discussion hosted by the Riga NGO House. The team is comprised of Rasma Pīpiķe, Researcher at Riga Technical University, together with her colleagues Sigita Zankovska-Odiņa, Senior Expert on Diversity Management at the Department of Diversity Management and Sustainability, and Inese Dāvidsone, Acting Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia.
The meeting explored the importance of diversity management in organisational leadership, the societal changes emerging from migration, causing misunderstandings between different groups, and the concept of systemic diversity as a foundation for sustainable and inclusive organisational cultures and top management teams.
During the session, Rasma Pīpiķe, who leads Work Package 4 of the ARENAS project, invited participants to discuss and agree on what the core competencies in civil society organisation leadership should be. Participants concluded that values and education are essential components for strong, inclusive, and forward-thinking leadership teams.