As the correlation and application of transformational leadership and resilience is
better understood, a greater awareness of this information may assist current and future
educational leaders. Bass and Avolio (2004) and Connor and Davidson (2003) have both
presented accepted conceptual frameworks of transformational leadership and resilience,
respectively. With these two leadership constructs and the environment of higher education, a
gap in the literature and in the understood correlation of transformational leadership and
resilience presented itself.