Accenture Consulting (with the Alliance for Strategic Leadership) was recently engaged in a multi-country research project aimed at helping global organizations understand the most important characteristics of the leader of the future. As part of our research we asked leading companies to identify future leaders who have the potential to be the CEO of a global organization. Rather than the usual process of asking today's leaders (who will not be there) to describe the future of leadership, we decided to ask tomorrow's leaders. We received input from these future leaders through focus groups, interviews and surveys. In total, we received input from over 200 future leaders who were nominated from over 120 major companies around the world.