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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet — thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing — consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust. — Lance Secretan If you haven’t already, check out a brief overview of leadership styles here. Authentic leadership is a style of leadership that emphasizes the leader’s legitimacy and competence by building honest relationships with followers. Authentic leadership begins with deep self-awareness. It’s really a lifelong journey of learning from experiences which build upon one’s morals and values. Authentic leaders, not fearing judgment from others, share these experiences openly; stories of success and defeat, good times and rough times. The sharing of these stories reinforce genuineness and, subsequently, authenticity. If you can understand who you truly are as a person, and as a leader, then you’ll be able to instill the same understanding in the team around you. It is one thing to understand the self, it’s another