Deliberately transforming society toward equitable and sustainable futures requires leadership. But what kind of leadership? While the dominant understanding of leadership often centers on the individual, the concept of collective leadership is receiving increased attention. Yet, the relationship between individual and collective leadership remains elusive and has been given limited attention in the transformation literature. In this study, I explore how leadership is understood and enacted in an Alaska Native community engaged in transforming community systems toward enhanced sustainability. I draw on Indigenous leadership research, organized through four interrelated analytical lenses: the individual leader, leadership through culture, leadership through process, and leadership through integration. I find that leadership in the community can be seen as something simultaneously individual and collective and argue that an Indigenous relational ontology makes it possible to imagine leadership as an “individual-collective simultaneity.” In the discussion, I highlight the connections to emerging theories and approaches within “mainstream” leadership research, pointing to the potential for bridging disciplines and paradigms. For leadership and transformation researchers to engage in this bridging work, we must reflect on and reconsider our assumptions as to what agency for transformation is, with important implications for how we work to support transformations. While “ontological bridge building” creates tensions, it is through holding and working through these creative tensions that we can start to see pathways toward equitable and sustainable futures.

故意使社会朝着公平和可持续的未来转变需要领导。但是什么样的领导呢？尽管对领导力的主导理解通常集中于个人，但集体领导力的概念正受到越来越多的关注。然而，个人和集体领导之间的关系仍然难以捉摸，在转型文献中只得到了有限的关注。在本研究中，我探索了如何在阿拉斯加土著社区中理解和制定领导才能，该社区致力于将社区系统转变为增强可持续性。我将通过四个相互关联的分析镜头来组织土著领导力研究：个人领导者，通过文化进行领导，通过过程进行领导以及通过集成进行领导。我发现社区中的领导可以看作是个人和集体同时存在的事物，并且认为，土著关系本体论使得将领导想象为“个人-集体同时性”成为可能。在讨论中，我强调了“主流”领导力研究中与新兴理论和方法的联系，并指出了桥接学科和范式的潜力。为了让领导力和转型研究人员从事这项过渡工作，我们必须反思并重新考虑关于什么是转型机构的假设，这对我们如何支持转型至关重要。虽然“本体的桥梁建设”产生了紧张关系，