One thing I would strongly encourage you to do is to stop calling it leadership and start calling it inclusive leadership. 

An inclusive leadership story has three elements at its core

1. A scenario where there is a group of people that are different to others (it can be anything that is easy to see for example introverts vs extroverts or Engineers vs Non engineers)
2. One group facing an issue because they are divers - e.g., non engineers not being able to contribute to product discussions because engineering team does not believe they need external help
3. You seeing that this is an issue taking all the steps needed to make the team an inclusive and open working environment

Your story in my opinion does not really fit that mold. It is nice what you did but focus on professional settings or setting at a group project or even extra curriculars where you would have encountered what I laid out above.

If you feel strongly about using that story then talk about if bullying is faced by a particular type of employee (e.g., women) and then talk about how you helped the team overcome a culture of bullying if you can.

Best,

Udayan

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Hi there,

Being asked for a leadership story you should focus on your best experience leading a team (of any size), either on a personal or professional situation. Keys here:

• You leading style is and how you inspire the team to reach a challenging goal
• Your teamwork skills to coordinate work and make everyone shine
• Your ability to understand and act on team dynamics, even the personal ones (motivations, frustrations)

I hope this helps.

Alberto

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Hi there,

This is a fantastic story!

Unfortunately, it doesn't really fit with inclusive leadership (it's not really leading).

In other interviews you can use this story if they ask for “challenging situation”, “persuasion”, “difficult moment”, etc. but alas this doesn't quite work for inclusive leadership.

Being able to step up is definitely an important attribute that is (usually) valued at MBB. 

However, I doubt this is what they are looking for in leadership (this is more about handling conflict and unacceptable behaviour). Would need at least to have the “inclusive” part to be acceptable as an inclusive leadership story.