With rare exception, leaders are made, not born. That’s because “leadership potential is not something that some people have and other people don’t,” note authors James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (2016). “It’s more broadly distributed than traditionally accepted views suggest.” Everyone has the capacity to lead, they say, but not until a leadership foundation is laid: “To become an exemplary leader, you have to … [apply] the fundamentals that will enable you to learn and grow as a leader” (Kouzes & Posner, 2016). That’s what we set out to do with this issue of JSD: Give learning leaders — prospective, new, and longtime — a broad sample of the fundamental concepts and strategies they must have in their development tool kit. We want