The Academic Vice-Rector and Researcher of Quality Leadership University, Mariana León Smith presented the paper entitled “Transformational Leadership in the Context of Higher Education”, in the symposium “Scientific Research at the Service of Society” developed on October 24, 2018 in the framework of the XVII National Congress of Science and Technology; event organized jointly by the Panamanian Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation.