The “Best Leader 2025” title was awarded to Neeme Tammis, Chairman of the Board of Hansa Group. In addition to his many years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor and advocate in his own field, he is a recognised supporter of culture and sport, contributes to the development of leaders and helps Ukraine.
Sirli Männiksaar, who has grown through the organisation to become the CEO of Ericsson Estonia, one of Estonia's leading exporters, says that to do great things, a leader must be ignorant in a good way and not get stuck in what has been done or the limits of what is available.
Grown from a chef to a top manager, Baltic Restaurants Estonia's manager and finalist in the Best Manager competition, Aaro Lode, was such a role model when working as a chef that the chef used him as a human test to test the boundaries. They were happy with each other, but Lode has had his fair share of bad and instructive managers.
Activities of the Estonian Employers “Confederation implemented within the framework of the project "Continuation of the Development Advisor in the Estonian Employers” Confederation 2025-2027. Project number: 2021-2027.1.01.23-0135
The Confederation of Estonian Employers has collected nearly 170 suggestions on how to reduce the administrative burden and bureaucracy that hampers business. The 12 proposals with the broadest impact and quickest implementation are now in the Government's Economic Cabinet and could be approved as early as this spring.
In a letter sent to the Legal Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu, major Estonian business federations support the planned amendments to the Employment Contracts Act to make working time more flexible. The unions also point out that there are a number of lies and myths circulating about the changes.
As previous promises to cut red tape have not been very fruitful and unnecessary bureaucracy has continued to proliferate, it is now possible to make history by controlling it, says Raul Aron, an advisor-analyst at the Confederation of Employers.
Neeme Tammis, the head of the Hansa Group, a decades-long entrepreneur and finalist in the Best CEO competition, has repeatedly burnt himself out in the pursuit of ambition. The last of these made him think more deeply about the life he has left and make a plan.
The Confederation of Finnish Employers has collected 170 proposals to cut unnecessary red tape and today submitted a summary to the Chancellery and the Prime Minister's Growth Council. Of these, the 12 proposals with the greatest impact and the quickest to be resolved could reach the Cabinet of Ministers' Economic Cabinet for action as early as May.
Successful companies are all similar in one way - they make informed choices, invest systematically in developing innovation capacity and constantly create new value, explains Kati Rostfeldt, Innovation Advisor at the Confederation of Finnish Employers.
"My passion is hospitality, a field in which I have been active for 30 years. Working in hotels every day has given me a deep understanding of the importance of the workforce - both finding talent and retaining and developing it," says Ain Käpp, head of the Employers' Confederation's labour market working group and council member.
The jury selected three leaders to be chosen as the best of the year. This year's finalists are Sirli Männiksaar, Head of Ericsson Estonia, Aaro Lode, Head of Baltic Restaurants Estonia and Neeme Tammis, Chairman of the Board of Hansa Group.
The Confederation of Estonian Employers, which represents the largest employers, today proposed to the government not to go ahead with the planned amendment to the Waste Act. The effects of the reform have not been analysed and instead of bringing the necessary changes in the field, it will lead to a number of problems.
The Confederation of Estonian Employers, which represents the largest employers, stresses that we need foreign workers to help us cope with an ageing society and a shrinking working-age population. Every foreign worker who pays taxes helps to pay the salaries of teachers and doctors and to finance the defence of the country.
Prime Minister Kristen Michal today announced the launch of the Efficiency and Growth Council. Representatives and members of the Confederation of Estonian Employers will also participate in its work.