Global Female Leaders Outlook 2025

Success Traits: Agility, Leadership & Strategy for Female Leaders

Successful entrepreneurs today need to be more agile, faster and more forward-thinking than ever before. For the Global Female Leaders Outlook 2025, we asked female managers worldwide which personality traits lead them to success. The result: key factors are hard work, leadership quality, strategic thinking and high personal ambition.

Further insightful results of the Global Female Leaders Outlook 2025

While leadership qualities (49%) and strategic thinking (43%) have already been key personality traits in recent years, hard work stands out in 2025, with 50% of respondents highlighting it.

Nearly two-thirds continue to experience prejudice and discrimination in the workplace. Likewise, no positive progress is evident in other areas.

76% see their personal network as a key factor for career success and trust in social media also for professional purposes. Yet growing visibility also brings risks, with many reporting experiences of digital abuse.

For the first time in five years, there has been a shift in investment strategy from capital spending on employee development to capital spending on acquiring and implementing new technology.

Our study series: Global Female Leaders Outlook

Mit dem Global Female Leaders Outlook 2025 setzen wir unsere Studienreihe fort. Seit 2018 haben insgesamt bereits knapp 5.000 Frauen in Führungsposition aus mehr als 50 Ländern daran teilgenommen.

Unser Ziel ist es, mit den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen einen Beitrag zu leisten: für resilientere Organisationen, für inklusivere Führungsstrukturen und für eine gleichberechtigte Zukunft.