Assessment of the mediating effects of trust in leaders and workplace cultural EI on individual job satisfaction and organizational commitment in an Australian council showed that team members‟ ability to understand the emotions of other team members was predictive of trust in team leaders and individual job satisfaction and commitment to the organization. These relationships were investigated using mediation analyses, whereby the relationship between Understanding Emotions and both job satisfaction and organizational commitment were significantly mediated by team members‟ trust in their leader. These findings suggest that how well members of the teams assessed believed their emotions were being understood was predictive of their level of trust in their manager, which in turn predicted how committed they were to the council and satisfied with their current position. This finding follows on from the suggestion that trust is a key element for the creation of emotionally intelligent workgroups (Edmondson, 1999). Specifically, the degree of trust in the team leader was the mediating factor between the EI of the teams surveyed and the organizational outcomes assessed. This study confirms that emotionally intelligent culture has a powerful effect on group member levels of job satisfaction and organizational commitment.