Presentation provides a snapshot of how women experience authentic leadership throughout the stages of adult development, bridging Robert Kegan’s Orders of Consciousness and Terri O’Fallon’s STAGES. The current context reveals how our culture is deeply conflicted by women’s authority, where men and women, along with the gendered structure of many organizations, hold unconscious biases and stereotypes, hindering women’s authentic leadership. The research indicates women experience authentic leading initially intellectually, then embodied, as their perspectives widen, with awareness of gender and leader biases emerging within the self-transforming mind. So, now what do we do?