Emotional leadership is a process that leaders use to influence their followers to pursue a common goal. Strong emotional leadership depends on having high levels of emotional intelligence- which is the ability, capacity or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of oneself, of others and of group. True leaders exhibit emotional maturity. An emotional leader is a leader with empathy and has the ability to read peoples’ needs and desires. Empathy, that is, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.