Waller Newell on the modern leader -- what are we looking for and has the meaning of leadership changed?
Waller Newell is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and co-director of the Centre for Liberal Education and Public Affairs at Carleton University and author of The Soul of a Leader: Character, Conviction and Ten Lessons in Political Greatness.
What makes a leader a leader?
Andrew Coyne is national editor of Maclean's. He is a frequent commentator on television and radio. Visit andrewcoyne.com.
Jeffrey Simpson is national affairs columnist with The Globe and Mail.
Allan Bonner is a political communications consultant with Allan Bonner Communications Management Inc., and the author of Doing and Saying the Right Thing and The Bonner Business Series: Media Relations.
Janice Stein is TVO's international affairs analyst, the Belzberg professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.
William Christian is the author of Parkin: Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man and a former professor of political science at Mount Allison University and the University of Guelph.