This chapter sums up what I’ve learned and makes suggestions for mentoring and developing new leaders, particularly women in educational settings. I return to the guiding metaphor of the book, “opening identity portals” to think about encouraging, and supporting, new educational leaders entering the profession. Portals in literature, the movies, and media can be alternatively terrifying or liberating, depending on the story and the author’s intent. This is also true for the emerging leader, so I reflect on easing the transition, particularly through discourse. I review what I’ve learned about leadership identity through the course of researching and writing the book, including the conversations with participants, my own critical reflections, and my study of what animal-human bonds and parallels can teach us as leaders. These lessons include those about the power of storytelling and imagery; the support of family, friends, and mentors; the centrality of empathy and listening; and how to handle inevitable challenges and frustrating paradoxes. In the end we all have a role to play in opening and cultivating identity portals and inviting young women leaders to enter them.