The purpose of writing this article is to understand educational leadership. Leadership can be interpreted as a process of one's activities to influence, mobilize and coordinate individuals or groups in order to realize cooperative relationships in an effort to achieve the goals set. Educational leadership is a process of influencing, mobilizing and coordinating individuals in educational organizations / institutions to achieve educational goals. The Ministry of National Education (MONE) divides the function of educational leadership into seven namely; as an educator (educator), manager, administrator, supervisor (supervisor), leader (leader), innovator; and, motivator. The seven functions of leadership are often referred to as EMASLIM. Within the scope of leadership studies, there are types and styles of leadership, including: authoritarian leadership, democratic leadership, laissez faire leadership, charismatic leadership, paternalistic leadership and expert leadership. The method of writing this article uses a literature study which is to search for and collect material from various sources namely, papers, articles, books and journals that are relevant to educational leadership.