Transformational leadership examples in business

 Jeff Bezos
As the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has always understood that a successful
business is customer-focused. Despite reporters’ objections in the clip, Bezos offers
a bold vision of what the world’s largest online retailer will become – and how he
will deliver it.

Amazon is the perfect model of transformational leadership and shows that by

building on a series of short-term goals, things can be achieved at a great scale.

Transformational leadership examples in politics

 Steve job
 Bill Gate

 Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama is an American politician and lawyer and the 44th
President of the United States.

US Ambassador Susan Rice commented that Obama “Makes people feel that their
views are heard and appreciated. So even if your opinion is not chosen, you still
feel your vision is valuable. That makes you all the more enthusiastic to support his
final decision.”

Barack Obama believes that without personal opinions that benefit the community,
people will easily be swayed by criticism from other individuals. If they don’t train
themself to have a clear opinion, they will spend a lot of time changing their plans
and not becoming a great leader.
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Transformational leadership examples in human rights activism

 Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968)

He was a great American human rights activist and will forever be remembered by
the world for his contributions.

Martin Luther King is considered one of the most famous transformational leaders
in history.

He became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 35.
When he won, he used the prize money of 54,123 USD to continue to develop the
movement for human rights.

In 1963, King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, envisioning an America
in which people of all races lived equally.

Transformational leadership examples in the media industry

 Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey – “The Queen of All Media”. She hosted the Oprah Winfrey Show
from 1986 to 2011. It was the highest-rated talk show in history and Winfrey
became an African American richest man of the 20th century.

Time magazine named her one of its most influential people in 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, and 2009. A Forbes article from October 2010 celebrates Winfrey as a
transformational leader because she could inspire her employees to fulfill her vision
while maintaining mass appeal.