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Although leadership emergence has attracted substantial scholarly interest, the scope of prior work has been limited by assumptions that portray emergence as an individual process and equate it with holding a formal leadership position. In a recent theoretical piece, Wellman (2017) challenged these assumptions and highlighted the importance of team-level dynamics, shared cognition, and contextual features in the emergence process. This symposium aims to continue the conversation originated by Wellman and others by empirically addressing important unanswered questions related to leadership emergence. We present four papers that consider emergence using a variety of theoretical perspectives, levels of analysis, and research designs. Following the presentations, Sim Sitkin, a preeminent leadership scholar whose own work has challenged the field to revisit long-held assumptions, will lead the audience …