In the current business climate professionals are seeking new ways and ideals for conducting themselves. There is a need to be more authentic, but what value does authentic leadership hold within the workplace and what does it mean to lead authentically? We recently sat down with Michelle Maldonado to find out what authentic leadership means to her, what the gaps in leadership are, and where the skills from authentic leadership are being put into practice. Michelle not only identifies the value in these soft skills and the influencing authority that comes through these skills, but also where businesses are using mindfulness and where self-mastery is making its way into school curriculum’s.