The Global Women’s Journal: Leadership Edition – Summer 2025 is a compelling, international volume of real-life leadership stories from women around the world. This book is about how women lead with trust and emotional intelligence, strengthening resilience and building strong, healthy teams.

This volume is curated by Karen Hall, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Momentum Media.

It focuses on trust-based leadership across multiple sectors. These stories emphasize how relationships, inclusive decision-making, and emotional safety play a critical role in effective leadership.

Rather than offering a single definition of leadership, this volume honors its many expressions through diverse voices. Contributors come from professional backgrounds including the arts, entrepreneurship, AI, and wellness. Their stories reflect emergent themes of trust as the currency of leadership, including the role of empathy and emotional intelligence in supporting psychological safety.

This book is for women who want to strengthen their leadership, women who aspire to lead, and the men who work alongside them. Curated through a neuroscience-informed editorial lens, these stories show the unique ways women lead by building relationships and connection—offering insight that helps guide others, strengthen teams, and increase resilience.