Now that this semester is over, I can state that I learned many different lessons. I think that I am getting closer to the person that I want to be, “this great leader impacting his community for greater social change”. To better understand what this dream implies, I think that it is important to share all my thoughts on leadership and the characteristics of a leader.                              
Leadership is a phenomenon that is at once, ambiguous, and elusive. The concept in itself is vague in my opinion. It is discussed in the political world, in the business world, in sports activities, in cultural life, in short, everywhere. It refers to human beings in society, subject to various authorities. To grasp its essence and substance even a little, it is necessary to tackle the understanding of human nature itself, of interpersonal relationships, particularly relationships of authority, and of life in an organized society. It is a vast field of observation that we can analyze deeply. One could devote a lifetime to this analysis without exhausting all its wealth. Some might see this as some kind of impossible task and give up. For my part, I see it as a real opportunity! I seek to look at the examples of past leaders in human society to learn from them and grow accordingly. 
One important thing that we should reflect on is the link between the understanding we have of leadership, our ways of talking about it or recounting this experience, and the personal ways that we have of being leaders. To assume leadership, the fact of telling it can have an important impact, it allows us to better understand it. This is what leads us to propose a central place for storytelling in leadership research and training. But what we learn from leadership is more in the order of understanding than of the order of explanation, and appeals to subjectivity, whether that of the leader himself, or that of the person that is being guided by a leader. 
In doing so, we discover that leaders build themselves a “story” to tell in order to be able to influence others. If this story appeals to the subjectivity and imagination of the leader, it does not mean that it cannot relate to reality, and it is also by its content that the leader is deemed credible by his collaborators. Because highlighting the subjectivity and judgment of the leader does not make us forget that leadership is a social phenomenon. If the leader manages to have an influence, it is because he exercises a form of authority recognized by his peers, be it intellectual and moral, rather than formal, and because he assumes responsibility for it.
By exercising some authority and assuming the responsibilities that come with it, one can see a rapprochement between management and leadership. But we must be careful not to confuse leadership skills with management skills. The result of such an amalgamation has ultimately only been to reduce leadership to behaviors or skills that one can acquire in a training program.
In my opinion, leadership cannot be reduced to recipes or political or communication skills. Nor is it a skill, not even a set of skills that one would have acquired or could have acquired formally. All intelligent management is necessarily artisanal: it is done by people, who manage other people, producing goods or services aimed at customers. Subjectivity is present everywhere. But what about leadership?
Leadership comes not so much from the position of authority that one occupies as from the direction or power that comes or emanates from the person himself, and which therefore differs from one person to another. What makes the leadership of one does not necessarily make the leadership of another. It is therefore as much, if not more, the personal differences as the similarities likely to be observed from one leader to another that we are interested in when evaluating leadership.
Since it is a vast, rich and inexhaustible concept, which it is impossible to clearly define, it seems easier to accept that there will always be a "margin of error in our reflection". We can nevertheless understand it, intuitively, implicitly, and even unconsciously. This understanding will be partial and claiming to explain it with certainty is utopian. This does not prevent people from understanding leadership. They "understand" but do not venture too much to explain the phenomenon, because the explanations are too simple and unsatisfactory.
This position leads us to take a more realistic look at what we know about leadership and what can be done to develop it in those who have a certain potential, regardless of the field in which they exercise it. Leaders themselves subjectively grasp what drives them, and what exists within them that can become a leadership ferment. Generally, when the talent exists, they have a subjective certainty of it, a critical capacity that leads them to know, well before the others, their strengths and their weaknesses.
It is this “subjective knowing” that is the basis of judgment and the ability to learn and change. Objective knowledge is always essential, but the person's subjectivity is what determines his leadership the most. Subjectivity manifests itself above all in judgment, this faculty of the mind allowing one to judge well of things that are not the object of immediate knowledge, nor of a vigorous demonstration. This is very much the realm of leadership.
Through this course, I had to make many different reflections on my own perceptions of leadership. I was challenged many times as I was asking myself questions like “what do I really care about?”, “what do I want to do in life?”. Every time, I answered the same thing, “change Haiti”. It is not a simple task. However, the often powerful responses that I received when I submitted my responses gave me the strength to fight daily for that dream. One of the most important things that I retained from the responses can also be associated with leadership. I remember getting the advice that there is no such thing as a perfect time to step up and start the battle. As a result, I will reflect a lot on those plans over the summer and I might also go to the South of Haiti to help people from this community.