Krystle B and Stacy A discuss leadership styles and their impact in healthcare organizations. Krystle identifies with authentic leadership characteristics like self-awareness, transparency, balanced processing, and moral leadership. She describes a director who initially displayed relational leadership but struggled with accountability. Stacy discusses transformational, authentic, and aesthetic leadership styles. She describes an ACD who micromanages versus one who leads by example through clinical involvement and inspiration. Both cite research finding relational and transformational leadership correlate to positive work environments and nurse outcomes.