“…Many authors have explored "leadership through influence" as the concept of distributed leadership: Sergiovanni (2001) And the concept of distributed leadership has been even further explored (Katzenmeyer & Moller, 2001;Harris, 2004Harris, , 2008Frost & Harris, 2003;Murphy et al, 2007;Murphy, Smylie, Mayrowetz, & Louis, 2009;Lambert, 2007). However, in this chapter, we draw on research (Crowther et al, , 2009(Crowther et al, , 2011(Crowther et al, , 2013 to present our view of leadership, that is, parallel leadership: a process whereby teacher leaders and their principals engage in collective action for purposes of schoolwide development and revitalisation.…”