The U.S. political climate leans heavily into the “great man” idea of leadership these days. This theory was popularized in the first half of the twentieth century and asserts that leaders are born with traits of leadership that only “great” people possess. However, this model of leadership has roots that extend back centuries, even to biblical times, and has more recently become twisted through actions of European colonization of the “New World” that began in the fifteenth century. Colonization, as both historical events and ever-present legacies continuing today, re-made “great” leadership to constitute dominating expressions of power, authority, decisiveness, individuality, confidence, and rightness. (As I detail elsewhere, colonization re-made church leadership in these ways as well, and in other ways that prize Eurocentric notions of the self, expertise, roles, and success in congregational life.)