Interview community leaders (e.g., a minister, coach, principal, elected official, store manager, etc.) about valuable developmental experiences. Address the following sorts of issues in each interview:

- Do you think leadership develops with experience?

- Are there one or two experiences you look back on as having been especially valuable in helping develop your own leadership? Please briefly describe them.

- What made it (them) so valuable?

- Have your own views of leadership changed over time?

- Do you think leadership in your arena (e.g., sports, business) is much different from, or involves different pressures, than leadership in other arenas?

- Do you ever reflect, after the fact, about how effective your behavior was in a particular situation? Is this ever a source of new or different insights?

- Is there any advice you would give people early in their careers about leadership?