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Despite tendencies to treat leadership education and social justice education as mutually exclusive, the heart of leadership is social justice and effective activism and advocacy requires leading change. This chapter underscores the overlap between social justice and leadership education, details some of our stories as educators, and highlights aspirational examples to inspire socially just leadership educators.

This chapter calls on higher education to reclaim its role in leadership education. Specifically it examines higher education's purpose, context, and mission as clarion calls to embed leadership education throughout higher education institutions and focuses on why this is important.

All too frequently, leadership educators are positioned to teach from culturally sensitive and inclusivity‐minded perspectives, yet rarely are they prepared to do so effectively. This exploration of culturally relevant leadership pedagogy begins by offering a broad literature base to understand culturally relevant pedagogy from a range of diverse scholars. Drawing from the Culturally Relevant Leadership Learning framework (Bertrand Jones, Guthrie, & Osteen, 2016), we synthesize recommendations into key considerations for leadership educators. Finally, we conclude with the case of Anytown—an example of culturally relevant leadership pedagogy in action beyond the classroom.

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