“Our role is to help make sense of what we see and hear, feed it back, and use it to affirm, challenge, and stretch what educators are doing together with a trusted and collaborative relationship of critical friendship”(Hargreaves, 2024, p. xi). This is the “Why” expressed by Sinek (2009) when we need to build sustainable leadership from the middle. To mentor, coach and grow our middle leaders is not just rewarding, but a privilege I continue to enjoy and share insights of.