On 30-31 January 2018, Ana Simaens participated in the annual conference of the Forum para a Governação Integrada (GovInt), a think tank of public and private institutions collaborating for the resolution of complex social problems through integrated governance models allowing more effectiveness and efficiency. After being an expert in GovInt’s working group on Leadership since 2016, our researcher coordinated the 2018 Conference’s Workshop “GovInt leader: systemic and collaborative”. Additionally, the work carried for the past 2 years in the Leadership working group was materialised in a chapter of the book “Fatores Críticos de Sucesso e Governação Integrada” (Critical Factors of Success and Integrated Governance), which was launched during the conference.