The 5 Shifts Reshaping Opportunity for Black and Minority Women in 2026.
The leadership problem in 2025 was not a lack of talent. It was a failure of systems to protect, promote and retain Black women in leadership and minority women in leadership once disruption began. As leadership trends in 2026 continue to reshape the future of work today, the data now exposes a deeper crisis of leadership equity, workplace inclusion and diversity in leadership across global organisations.
Here is the headline reality.
According to LinkedIn’s State of Women in Leadership 2025, women hold 30.6 percent of leadership roles globally, an increase of just 0.2 percentage points since 2022, confirming that progress in women’s career advancement has slowed or reversed after years of steady movement.
In the United Kingdom, women reached 43.4 percent of FTSE 350 board seats, a historic milestone for corporate leadership diversity, yet the distance between board representation…
