Last year at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), President Robert Martin (Cherokee) led the faculty, staff, students, alumni, board members, and donors though a strategic planning process that resulted in a number of important new directions. Among these was a new mission statement to guide their work. Like most tribal educational institutions, they are engaged in a dynamic process to constantly improve the ways they meet their students' needs. Last year they agreed that developing leadership has become a major part of their collective endeavor. In this article, the author describes the various strategies they employ to do that.