The abstract of this research captures how organizational leadership leads to academic achievement. This study uses a multifaceted established context about effective leadership’s connection to education outcomes. It finds that healthcare leadership includes many supervision attributes, and lateral leadership in healthcare. This study uses a mixed-method design to obtain data from Hong Kong secondary school principals and teacher to stress some crucial factors. The students’ academic achievement is measured using quantitative outputs. Transformational leadership is identified as one of the causes of this improvement. Qualitative data give insights on leadership activities that trigger this increase. Transformational leadership (vision, decisiveness, and support for teachers) stands out in all data sets. Transformational leadership relates to performance improvement and is essential to an inclusive, student-friendly educational setting. Distributed leadership and the others show it to be a well-established team leadership element, but it also strongly impacts principals and teachers by sharing the resources and instructional leadership of the school. They have to identify the most valuable leadership practices. Educators and administrative leaders must execute such crucial aspects to improve student learning outcomes. The research verifies that transformational leadership is crucial to efficient schools and long-term student outcomes. The organizations can use these data to build the transformational approach base and coaching for principals. The research ascertains that potential weaknesses exist in the educational landscape and its Colossian’s macro-level readiness factors that policymakers should handle. The abstract focus on longitudinal research should be conducted to learn the leadership intervention’s lasting outputs from the effective schools that make a difference. This research emphasizes that leadership-influenced cultural transformation affects education outcomes. This study is interdisciplinary and neuroscience. It raises psychological and ethical issues and how they influence the educational setting. Furthermore, the research warns that administrators must balance leadership action with the constantly shifting educational setting to realize long-term, agile, and useful leadership.
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