Qualitative interviews with academics, politicians, not-for-profit CEOs and Corporate executives to understand leadership in crisis, the challenges of leadership and the attributes of effective leaders in crisis. This will lead to the development of a measurement tool for effective leadership in crisis situations. Interview transcripts contain actual data files with questions. However, the identifications of the respondents were removed from the transcripts. To discuss access to the data contact Ataus Samad at a.samad@westernsydney.edu.au