A Public LeaderStudent’s NameInstitutional AffiliationA Public LeaderIntroduction Leadership is both an art and science of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common objective. Thus, leadership incorporates the essential qualities of inspiring others and being prepared to lead by example. Consequently, effective leadership is based upon the ability to coin and communicate ideas in a way that engages other people, and to act in a desired way towards implementing those ideas. Hence, leadership involves; establishing a distinct vision; sharing the vision with other people; providing the relevant information, knowledge, and methods to incorporate towards achieving that vision; and coordinating and balancing the conflicts of interest among members (Milner and Joyce, 2012). Public Leadership OverviewThere are diverse scholarly ways of characterizing an effective public leader. However, consensus rests on the fact that a public leader is an individual who provides a voice for the responsibility he or she considers to be inherent and accompanies the voice with action. Additionally, the leader has to be service-oriented and a change agent with a vision of improving other people's lives in the economic, social, political and cultural aspects. Therefore, the complex nature of leadership coupled with