2025 Skills Index

Performing at the Speed of Change

The pace of change that businesses face in 2025 leaves little room for linear planning. Around the world, companies are operating in an environment where high costs, shifting market conditions, rapid technological change, and evolving global trade patterns intersect—often unpredictably. The challenge is no longer just about setting a course. It’s about adapting in real time.

In this environment, success hinges on a blend of financial discipline, strategic agility, and organizational resilience. Companies are honing their ability to make sound decisions in volatile markets, finding faster and more innovative ways to grow, and redesigning their workforces and operations to pivot quickly as conditions shift.

But great leadership talent is in chronically short supply—particularly those with today’s most in-demand skills. As volatility increases demand for great leaders capable of managing through complexity, companies are turning to top independent talent and interim executives to deliver on high-stakes initiatives with precision and flexibility.

In this annual examination of BTG proprietary data, we reveal the most in-demand and fastest rising skills sought by enterprise and mid-market companies, private equity firms, and global nonprofits.

Explore the most in-demand and fastest rising skills companies are seeking as they work to:

• Adjust strategies for growth in changing conditions
• Fortify financial resilience and discipline
• Convert tech experiments into business impact
• Head off supply chain and operational disruption

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