Leading the modern university in the twenty-first century is a nearly impossible task. According to Parker Palmer (2006), the answer for all university presidents and faculty alike lies not in looking outward at competing demands, but in facing inward. Palmer would agree that new leadership is needed for new times, but it will not come from finding more wily ways to manipulate the external world. It will come as those who serve and teach and lead find the courage to take an inner journey toward both their shadows and their light. Palmer calls not just on leaders at the top, but all members of the organization, to take this inner journey. To prepare future leaders for their roles in higher education, the author suggests that one must focus on more than budgets and politics. Members of the organization at all levels ought to take this inward journey, and leaders at the top would be more effective if they learned how to encourage this kind of reflection. (Contains 1 footnote.)