The concept of leadership was developed mainly in the organizational level to encourage workers in achieving the goals set, which over time caused that this term will be used in other areas such as sports, managerial and political. Recently in the field of education aims to develop leadership in a teaching way, distributed and transformational in the management teams and of the educational institutions to improve learning outcomes.

 Based on the evolution of the concept of leadership in educational processes, a documentary analysis was conducted with the objective to propose improvements in the construction of the concept, theory and methodology.

Employment is the conceptual mapping as a strategy for the organization of the information collected, in accordance with the eight pillars of analysis of this methodology, taken as a base primary and secondary sources retrieved from Google scholar and supplemental bibliography on the topic.

The results illustrate the importance of managing the human talent in the educational institutions through collaborative processes, metacognition and strengthening of the ethical project of life of those involved in the formation of the new generations, this will lead to a leadership that transcends the execution of tasks (functions and roles), and ensure the development of self-fulfilling and ethical people.

Socioformacion, Integral formation, Educational quality, Teaching, Collaboration.