Global Transformational Leadership Survey 2025

Global Transformational Leadership Survey 2025

Global Transformational Leadership Survey 2025

The Secrets to Successful Transformative Leadership and High-Performance Culture Building

The Secrets to Successful Transformative Leadership and High-Performance Culture Building

The Secrets to Successful Transformative Leadership and High-Performance Culture Building

Discover how successful leaders are navigating digital transformation, building high-performance cultures, and driving sustainable growth in an increasingly complex business environment.

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Key Insights from the Report

Key Insights from the Report

Key Insights from the Report

Leadership Readiness

45% of leaders in 2025 feel unprepared or unsure about their readiness for upcoming challenges, marking a decline since our 2023 survey (37%).

Culture Building

Culture building has risen to the third most important transformational leadership challenge in 2025, up from fifth place in 2023.

Human-Centered Leadership

Emotional Intelligence and Empathy top the list of most important leadership attributes in 2025, with only 6.4% of leaders a consistently high EQ.

A Collaborative Research Initiative

A Collaborative Research Initiative

A Collaborative Research Initiative

This comprehensive global research project was initiated and led by a collaboration of industry experts committed to understanding the evolving landscape of transformational leadership.

Tareef Jafferi & Taarif (Tim) Jafferi

Research interviews and surveys conducted over Q4 2024 & Q1 2025

3,354

Interviews and Surveys

26

Countries

4

Regions

What You'll Learn

What You'll Learn

What You'll Learn

1

Leadership Confidence Crisis

Understand why leadership confidence has declined since 2023 and discover strategies to rebuild it through targeted upskilling and resilience development.


2

Culture as a Transformational Accelerator

Learn why 75% of organizations identify culture as central to transformation, but only half report meaningful progress in aligning leadership practices with cultural goals.


3

Employee Engagement Strategies

Explore how improving employee engagement and workplace culture remain top investment priorities for 2025, with actionable insights from organizations that have succeeded.

4

Human-Centered Leadership Skills

Discover why emotional intelligence, empathy, and psychological safety are critical for leadership success in 2025 and beyond.

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