 Leadership is a choice, not a position or title. This is the main mindset that the Eclipse Leadership and Governance Centre wants to promote in organizing the Leadership Energy Summit, Asia, or LESA 2015. Unlike typical leadership seminars and conferences, the event focuses exclusively on exploring the concept of leadership energy. Speaking to 7 edition today, Eclipse CEO Rajiv Peshawarya said the centre has been researching on why there is a vacuum on leadership around the world, despite about 80 billion US dollars spent on leadership development every year. And we believe that the whole concept of teaching leadership is flawed. We teach leadership through competencies. Let's see what made people successful in the past and replicate that. We teach leadership through case studies. You can't become a leader by reading case studies. We try to make people leaders by copying others' behavior. Well, that's followership, not leadership. He added the centre, which is a non-profit organization set up under the auspice of Bank Nagara, believed that leadership is about creating a better future without giving up in the face of resistance. Why do people like Governor Zettie not give up in the face of resistance? When most other people would give up because it's so hard. Unless we stop thinking about leadership as a title, as a position, as power, something for me, rather than it's about giving, rather than taking, the world needs to understand that. People keep doing not only this conference, but conferences like this, programs, education, research pieces, writing, for as long as it takes to change the definition of leadership. Entering its third year, the event kicked off today and was attended by some 500 delegates. The two-day summit features a lineup of prominent international speakers, including Jennifer Bricker, an American acrobat and aerialist, who was born without legs. The notable speakers include the first neurosurgeon in Indonesia to successfully operate on the brainstem, Professor Ekka Juliata Wahjo Pramomono, and the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Whales.