Meet Michelle Obama

Meet Michelle Obama

We all have different definitions of leaders. For example, I think a leader is someone you can look up to that gives off a good impression and sets examples for others to follow. A leader is almost like a role model someone whose actions persuade you to want to be like them in many ways. In my case Michelle Obama is the perfect definition of a leader.

Michelle is the first lady of the white house and is accompanying the 44th president Barrack Obama. She is also the first African American First Lady in history. She's 48 years old; she was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. In college, she studied sociology and African American history at Princeton University. She also graduated from Harvard in 1988 and began working for a law firm known as Sidley and Austin. Michelle later realized that she enjoyed helping people and bettering the community they live in so she began working on new projects.

I consider Michelle a leader because although she was born as your average girl from Chicago she came up and made something out of herself and then went back and helped those who were less fortunate. She also stays true to who she is being the first lady did not change her characteristics and the way she conducted herself. Although she has many leadership roles she is first and foremost she is the mother of Malia and Sasha. Michelle was also assistant commissioner of planning and development at the city hall in Chicago as well as lawyer for many years, and the development executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies. Michelle has many qualities of a leader she motivated, trustworthy, she's developed many social skills over the years and she has stepped up and encouraged many women all over America to become better and that to me is a leader.

Michelle most likely has a democratic style of leading. She doesn't seem very demanding. Considering that her husband is the democratic representative in the 2012 I would believe that she has a very people involved form of leading. A Democratic Leadership style requires the interaction of others to help make decisions the leader is still the person in charge they help guide and kind of set a verbatim. Michelle does a lot of work with charities and children and trying to convince people to do the right thing, she leads by example and the best leadership style to go along with that is democratic.

Leaders aren't perfect; you have to accept that everyone will make mistakes, there are many different ideas of what a leader can be; but the main definition of a leader is someone you are willing to follow. If you look at that person and you can't see yourself following the example they set then maybe they aren't a leader to you. I can say Michelle Obama is a leader because she has set a path in her life for young women like me to follow and she sets a clear example. However don't be content