As American society becomes increasingly diverse, it is paramount that university graduate programs produce culturally responsive leaders capable of synergistically energizing an increasingly heterogeneous work force. Inherent in this charge is the egalitarian approach to graduate program design. Culturally responsive leadership development is premised upon egalitarian principles that transcend individual cultural norms. Graduate programs seeking to enhance culturally responsive leadership development must permeate egalitarianism through the amalgamation of both acquiescence and expectation.