The ontological model of leader and leadership opens up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader. 2. The ontological model of leader and leadership opens up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader and opens up and reveals the source of one's actions when exercising leadership. This course is a leadership laboratory using an Ontological / Phenomenological Model. Ontology's associated phenomenological methodology provides actionable access to what has been opened up. Future research of this innovative model of leadership … 1. This study documents the possibilities that emerge when participants engage in an ontological leadership course that invites them to create futures that call for their leadership. Approximately 120 participants attended the Being a Leader an Ontological Phenomenological Approach at UCLA in late July 2018. Average scores for participants' effectiveness as leaders in the domains of Relationships, Vocation, Avocation, and Self increased from pre- to post-course by 1.9, 1.86, 1.64, and 1.85 respectively (p < 0.0001). As the name suggests, The Course (still in development) employs an ontological model and a phenomenological method, and makes a unique promise to those who participate: “You will leave this course being a leader and exercising leadership effectively as your natural self-expression.” And ontology's associated phenomenological methodology (explained in the next paragraph) provides actionable access to what has been opened up. The ontological model of leader and leadership opens up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader and opens up and reveals the source of one’s actions when exercising leadership. The ontological model of leader and leadership opens up and Teaching people about leadership is different from creating leaders. And ontology’s associated phenomenological methodology (explained in the next paragraph) provides actionable access to what has been opened up. The Creating Course Leaders Workshop I is designed for participants to effectively deliver (read) the slides for the course, Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model. 40 educators indicated they would enter a training program to be able to effectively present the Leadership Course at their teaching institution. In creating leaders we employ the ontological discipline (from the Latin ontologia “science of being”, see Heidegger (1927)). Course Model and Methodology. 100 Academics, educators, and administrators and 20 business people attended. And ontology’s associated phenomenological methodology (explained in (2) below) provides actionable access to what has been opened up. Teaching leadership uses a third-person approach to impart someone else’s knowledge, which grants learners limited direct access to the being and actions of effective leaders. A New Paradigm of Performance. It also opens up and reveals the source of one's actions when exercising leadership. The ontological model of leader and leadership opens up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader and opens up and reveals the source of one’s actions when exercising leadership. The unique content and learning / teaching methods employed in this course are based on a new ontological / phenomenological model of leader and leadership.