Insights2025 Global Leadership Development Study: Fast, Fluid, and Future-FocusedIn 2025, Harvard Business Impact conducted a comprehensive global study to survey more than 1,100 leadership development professionals, examining how their work fits into the jobs to be done for organizations today. The results show that as organizations work to operationalize AI across every aspect of business, the pressure is mounting on those charged with leading learning and development to deliver fast, fluid, and future-focused learning that builds the collective intelligence of humans and machines.In this report, we explore three objectives for the coming year and three strategies for learning and development and the C-suite to consider as they tackle those objectives.Survey Highlights1,159L&D/HR professionalsand functional leaders20,000+Nearly half from organizations withat least 20,000 employees14+More than 14 countries and across industries51%from organizations with annual revenue of at least $10 billionTo download the full report, tell us a bit about yourself. 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