This chapter provides an overview of leadership and discusses several historical and current leadership theories. One’s path to becoming a facilitative leader involves learning about some of the theories and research about leadership. Equally important as the concepts of leadership are the views those theories articulate about followership. The trait theories come from historical roots that the leader is a great man and a hero. Leadership is often presumed in people with high positions, including corporate CEOs and directors of agencies. Administrator is a neutral position, and persons in that position may be perceived as positive or negative according to the leadership values they bring to the job. Social workers must engage in leadership and also that their efforts should address issues of social justice and injustice. Like Theory X-Theory Y, situational leadership is a theory designed around how those in leadership positions perceive followers.