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.
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
Jeremy Blain
Paul Marks
Jeremy Blain and Paul Marks
Research interviews and surveys conducted over Q4 2024 & Q1 2025
3,354
Interviews and Surveys
26
Countries
4
Regions
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Leadership Confidence Crisis
Understand why leadership confidence has declined since 2023 and discover strategies to rebuild it through targeted upskilling and resilience development.
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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.
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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.
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Discover why emotional intelligence, empathy, and psychological safety are critical for leadership success in 2025 and beyond.