Abstract
The introductory chapter situates the conceptualisation of learning and teaching leadership in higher education, an area not robustly represented in the research literature. The chapter describes the book's focus, which is to examine leadership through the lens of case studies that capture the lived experiences of academics and the incidents that have helped them demonstrate and develop as learning and teaching leaders. Through the sharing of these learning and teaching leadership case studies, there is a celebration of the uniqueness of the incidents that may contribute to the development of learning and teaching leaders; yet there are also similarities of opportunities and challenges between the accounts.