ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concepts of leadership and resilience in a modern organizational environment. Even though resilience was originally used in science as a way to describe a specific capacity of a strained body to recover its size after deformation, it is now widely used as a reference to an individual's capacity to outcome and thrive through any misfortune. However, this definition doesn't apply to every researcher's point of view because resilience appears to have a wide variety of characteristics and has also been associated with other concepts like leadership. Leadership refers to the process through which an individual influences other team members to achieve defined goals and a leader is a person in a group or organization who exerts the greatest influence on others. Individual, group, organizational, or community crises and tragedies necessitate leadership that fosters resilience in the presence of peril. The COVID-19 pandemic proved exactly that; it is rife with both known and unknown unknowns, and the diverse national reactions to it best illustrate the significance of resilient leadership. Finally, this chapter explores the concept of resilience and leadership in an educational setting.
