The Appropriate Leadership. A sustainable approach to inclusive leadership in diverse contexts
This workshop is designed for leaders navigating diverse, often international, contexts. It focuses on recognizing and valuing differences within teams and provides strategies to create inclusive, sustainable innovation. Participants will explore their own and others’ perceptual styles and learn how to adapt their leadership approach to enhance impact. The workshop encourages reflection on personal and professional experiences, using a developmental approach to leadership. By the end of the course, leaders will have gained a fresh perspective on leadership, becoming facilitators of an inclusive vision tailored to their specific context.
Target Audience: The more different backgrounds of doctoral students, the better. This is a cross-competence any Ph.D. should have to be able to play in the international arena. Students will be challenged to work together starting from their different disciplinary context. Ideally participants should be at their second/third year of their Ph.D. program.
Participants: Min 8 Max 20
- ECTS: 1
- Total hours: 8
- Language: English
- Mode of participation: The course is highly interactive, in presence and will need full attendance. Online participation is possible upon request.
- Max participants: 20
- Course code: INV.TRSVL.18
- Category: SOFT AND TRANSFERABLE COMPETENCES WITHIN AND BEYOND ACADEMIA
How To Apply
Contact for registration: dottorati@unimib.it
- OPENING of registrations: 24 Jan. 2026
- CLOSING of registrations: 21 Feb. 2026
- 24/02/26 4.30 - 6.30 pm CET
- 26/02/26 4.30 - 6.30 pm CET
- 2/03/26 4.30 - 6.30 pm CET
- 3/03/26 4.30 - 6.30 pm CET
5 - Gender Equality; 10 - Rediced Inequalities; 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Objectives:
This workshop will address the many challenges leaders have to face when operating in a diverse, often international context. Efficacious leadership is not “one size fits all”: leading a diverse team means being able to value difference and provide appropriate guidance according to different expectations. Leaders need to recognize their own and others’ preferred perceptual styles and their embodied experience of those styles in order to create strategies and tactics for translating inclusivity into sustainable innovation. The workshop will provide opportunities for apprehending new frameworks and reflecting on personal and professional experience in order to make their work more impactful and globally responsible. It will use a developmental ra-ther than transformative approach to the notion of change and difference. Leaders need to acquire a fresh perspective for carving their own unique leadership in terms of “appropriateness” to context and learn how to become facilitators of a new, encompassing vision.
Name of faculty: Prof. Ida Castiglioni
Contact for registration: dottorati@unimib.it