“Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership As One’s Natural Self- Expression” The sole objective of this conversation is to leave you actually being a leader and exercising leadership effectively as your natural self-expression. By “natural self-expression” we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitively effective response to what you are dealing with. Being a leader is not taught in most leadership courses; instead what is almost universally taught is knowledge about leadership. The significant difference between the impact of being versus knowing is for the most part not recognized in academia (in fact not recognized generally). Being something and knowing about that something are dramatically different states with significantly different impacts on one’s actions. Also note that knowing is never a sufficient pathway to achieve being