The first session of the Lead and Succeed Lunchbox webinar series focuses on collective leadership and its role in sustaining communities. The conversation begins with the roots of leadership studies, moves to the ongoing conversation defining leadership today, and then shifts to how communities are moving away from the traditional leader-centric models to more collective one. In this new model, shared purpose, diverse collaboration, power sharing and local knowledge are fundamental. The group talks about how collective leadership can tackle community challenges by focusing on relationships, emphasizing the need to build collective leadership skills while simultaneously recognizing the challenges they face. The session wraps up with an invite for more conversations and practical steps in community leadership programs.