Liderazgo transformacional y su influencia en la innovación académica en instituciones de educación superior

Forms of methodological innovation allow teachers to transform teaching structures through transformational leadership; Therefore, this article aims to analyze and understand the influence that transformational leadership has on academic innovation from higher education institutions. To fulfill this objective, a qualitative methodology is applied, in order to understand the phenomenon in depth, that is, interpret the influence or incidence of transformational leadership on academic innovation in future professionals. At the same time, a bibliographic review is applied to investigate previous studies that consolidate in-depth analyzes on the aforementioned topic; Academic databases such as Scielo, Scopus, Redalyc and Google Scholar are used. Also included are studies that are published from 2019 to 2025. The findings of the study reveal that transformational leadership is a strategy that modifies conventional ways of teaching and involves the educational institution in general: teachers, managers and students; and also to parents, so that effective and significant competencies are reproduced in practice, consolidating objective responses to conflicts. In short, it is important that innovation processes are generated from transformational leadership because it involves innovative tools and teaching practices relevant today.