If you are in-charge, or mentor anybody, then you are a leader. But leaders can also be followers to greater leaders. There’s also the difference between a natural leader and a trained leader. I am not a natural leader, but I made it to the top rank in the Boy Scouts, I’m the oldest sibling in my family, active with several non-profits in high school and in the high school itself, not to mention Valedictorian.
Granted, it took till I was almost 18 to be an Eagle Scout, I only have one sister, the non-profits I was with for were small and required people to wear many hats, my high school only had 120 kids K-12 and my Valedictorian distinction was earned with a GPA of 3.42, 2nd place was a 2.8. Basically, I don’t want to brag on my accomplishments because many, many people would have done the same or better in my shoes. However, college was a different story. There was no course that taught such qualities, or even anything strategic or useful to being anything other than a computer drone at an Engineering firm.
Of course, I would not be completing my argument without noting that the paths to becoming an Engineer and a politician are two very different paths, so it’s different for everybody.
Hopefully I’ll have better luck on round two in the humanities.