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Our Mission

At RISE - Arik & Partners, we support organizations in evolving through human-centered and value-aligned transformation.

Our name reflects our guiding principles:
Responsible, Innovative, Sustainable, and Empowering approaches to consulting that go beyond isolated fixes — addressing systems as a whole: from individual leadership to team dynamics and organizational decision-making.

Our mission is to empower people and organizations to rise — in clarity, trust, and sustainable performance.
Tuğba Arık has worked with renowned Institutions such as

Charité Berlin

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Aalto University

and collaborated with project partners including

Rabobank

VNO-NCW

Our Approach

We go beyond isolated fixes — addressing systems as a whole: from individual leadership to team dynamics and organizational decision-making.

Our Stories

Founded by Tuğba Arık, RISE - Arik & Partners operates as a flexible collective of independent consultants and experts. This model enables us to assemble project-specific teams with the right expertise – agile, strategic, and purpose-driven.

Tuğba Arık is an independent consultant in Responsible Leadership, Innovation  and Organizational Development. Educated in Psychology and Business Administration at the University of Twente and trained in Systemic Organizational Consulting at Humboldt University Berlin, she has worked with institutions such as Charité Berlin, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Saxion University of Applied Sciences and Aalto University, and collaborated in projects with partners including Rabobank and VNO-NCW to advance ethical, innovative, and trust-based leadership for a sustainable future.
Tugba Arik Portrait

PhD (cand.)
MBA/MSc. 
BSc. Psychology 
Certified in Systemic Organizational Consulting

We work on three interconnected levels

Individual level

We're enabling leaders to thrive through holistic wellbeing.

team level

We're cultivating trust and high-performing collaboration.

system level

We're embedding responsibility and foresight into systems and governance.

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