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Leadership is a process that focuses in change, guidance and innovation, where the leader is someone who encourages others, supports them and acts appropriately, considering the group’s goals with a strong defined purpose, regarding the needs of the context. This personal leadership statement sought to explore the best definition of leadership and its implications within the educational environment. It begins with the definitions of leadership and authentic leadership from the perspective of different authors, followed by our assumption of leadership, in which it is stated that leadership is member-driven and with awareness of the member’s weaknesses. And finally, it includes a leadership plan to face challenges of the 21st century regarding globalization, technology and engagement of the students to their learning process. This plan concludes that schools need to innovate and ensure quality of foreign language education creating an action plan that adjusts to the students’ needs without exceptions, which must help to solve the problems of learning a second language and motivation.

Leadership is a powerful quality that drives humanity to have a collective set of mind, travel many distances and years to take societies for big changes. Leadership allows us to know all people’s skills and understand what they are capable of to lead them to the good exploitation of what they can do.

This project aims to understand the leadership world in terms of teaching, it involves some conceps regarding to leadership empowerment, and additionally our vision to become teacher leaders.

There is no universal definition of leadership because of different perspectives stated by different authors, organizations, and societies across the world and throughout time. Despite the differences in opinion, these sources share a similar thought in the idea that they see leadership as a process through which a person influences and leads the actions of a united team to achieve a common goal. One clear example of this thought is Gibb's statement “leadership is not a fixed attribute of personality but is a function of the group aims and values, and of the organization and techniques available for reaching a goal” (1947, p.3).

Rost (1991) defines leadership as "an influence relationship between leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes" (p. 107). This means that leadership involves a close interaction between the people who lead and their followers, in which both parties contribute and produce a mutually positive effect towards the fulfillment of their objectives.

Leaders inspire confidence and builds trust among people to attain objectives. Effective leaders have a meaningful aspect in common, and that is they are capable of keeping their subordinates engaged. Leaders must adapt and modify their leadership style in order to achieve goals and inspire people along the way. This article aimed to explore the nature of leadership in educational contexts. It also argued that the presence of leadership in any educative organization is a crucial component of overall organizational success.

Studies have demonstrated the positive effects that leadership can have on schools (Adams, Kutty & Zabidi, 2017; Jones, et. al., 2015; Harris, et. al., 2017; Perera, Adams, & Muniandy, 2015). Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom (2004) reiterated that “Leadership is second only to classroom instruction among all school-related factors that contribute to what students learn at school” (p. 5). The school effectiveness and improvement field face a new and pervasive challenge (Harris, et. al, 2015). The past few decades have seen teacher leadership emerge as an important aspect of school leadership (Wenner & Campbell, 2017). Teacher leadership is no longer optional, teachers have developed an increasingly important role in their schools. Teacher leadership is now the significant means to inspire the enhancement of teaching (Muijs & Harris, 2006). In the current stage of instructional development, teachers’ routines are no longer restricted within classroom boundaries (Grant, 2006). Teachers are in a unique position to promote change within schools (Mangin & Stoelinga, 2010), by leading the spread of best practices through teacher collaboration, encouraging teacher professional learning and focus on content-specific issues due to their familiarity with the complexities involved in teaching (Wenner & Campbell, 2017; Curtis, 2013; Muijs & Harris, 2006).

This document depicts personal descriptions of leadership in an academic environment