Despite their common goals of improving employees' well-being and job performance and overall organizational performance, the leadership and human resource management (HRM) research streams have largely developed independent of one another. In order to bridge the gap between the two streams, a panel of experts will discuss the overlap between leadership and HRM. The panelists will address such issues as how leadership, HR, and organizational culture can affect organizational effective; how leaders can properly implement HR practices; how leadership and HR theory can be developed more closely; and how succession processes can affect leaders in the c-suite. Addressing such issues will be a meaningful step in bridging these two research streams and in more fully understanding how organizations and their leaders can improve the lives of their employees.