Leadership Main Styles in the Context of Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation in the industrial sector, known as Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0, has risen in an expressive way in organisations. At the same time, the role of a leader has become strategic to guide organisations through the complexity of organisational changes. However, few research studies have analysed leadership from a holistic view of Digital Transformation. This paper aims to investigate the most relevant leadership characteristics in this context. Based on a literature review, leader attributes were mapped using a Digital Transformation framework proposing as outputs of the efforts and changes to becoming a more: sensing, smart, sustainable and social organisation. The main contribution of this paper is the survey of the main leadership styles to support Digital Transformation. The findings also have a managerial contribution as a tool to understand the leader’s profile required to guide an organisation through its digital maturity in the Digital Transformation journey.