Colleagues from Durham University and the Centre for Leadership and Followership hosted an international, cross-disciplinary symposium at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Seattle, Washington, in August 2022. Chaired by Dr Karolina Nieberle, Department of Psychology, the symposium challenged the status quo of how people get to see themselves as leaders and considers when people leave a formal working environment such as the office, do they still see themselves as leaders?