The modern business world requires dynamic and efficient leadership of organizations to achieve business success. Organizational performance depends on the ability of organization leaders to motivate their followers to increase productivity and efficiency. One of the approaches to leadership that stands out as extremely successful is transformational leadership and its connection with the intrinsic motivation of employees is becoming an important topic in research that explains the positive aspects of this form of leadership. This paper explores a deeper understanding of the connection between transformational leadership and intrinsic motivation of employees and studies how this connection contributes to the achievement of organization’s long-term goals. Within the theoretical framework of transformational leadership, the specifics of transformational leadership are defined and the advantages and disadvantages of the transformational form of management in the business world are stated. In addition, defining intrinsic motivation shows challenges in motivating employees and ways of intrinsic motivation in modern business. Empirical research examines the connection between transformational leadership factors and intrinsic employee motivation. The selected sample consists of 112 respondents who, by completing a questionnaire, identify the four factors of transformational leadership in their immediate superior. At the same time, respondents evaluate the level of motivation based on six factors of intrinsic motivation. The analysis of the obtained data proves the statistical correlation between transformational leadership and intrinsic motivation.