Due to ongoing educational reforms administration alone is no longer able to lead schools on the way to efficient teaching. Educator-leaders, both formal (the department chairs, the staff developers, the head teachers, mentors, program coordinators, etc.) and informal (event initia-tors, educators active in participation in conferences, meetings, etc.) have become an absolute necessity. However, there are some grave obstacles to involving all teachers and lecturers in leading at least certain

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... tivities at their institutions and beyond. The article aims to find out the viewpoints on leadership at universities in Georgia. A survey was held in three universities with 96 lecturers as respondents. It applies a questionnaire with 10 close-ended items assessed via Likert scale and an open-ended question concerning the attitudes of lecturers towards leadership and their motives for wanting or not wanting to be leaders. It is concluded that lecturers, probably, do not realize the great need on educator-leaders of contemporary education in the time of continuous and intensive reforms. Lectures need to be educator-leaders in the classroom, among colleagues and in professional self-development. They have to lead some events, at least from time to time.