ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author seeks to share a journey of inquiry into the phenomenological nature of relationships, organizational cultures, Relational Leadership, relational sensibilities and the development of a new postgraduate programme that embraces the findings. He describes understandings of the educational context. The chapter also describes a phenomenological approach to understand more fully leaders' influence on their immediate and local contexts. This approach involved the use of hermeneutic interpretation. The author focuses on shifted to the implications and applications of the phenomenological findings for educational leadership. Relational Leadership is described as an ethical way of being in leadership. A high priority for Relational Leaders is the need to enable emergent and aspiring leaders. Leadership is not about following a script; rather, it is a matter of improvisation that is appropriate to the concern of the moment. The identification and refinement of a leader's relational sensibilities is critical to their formation and success in practice.
