This research is conducted on the premise that leadership quality is learnable and transferable. Hence, the primary purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between inspiring leadership and learning styles in a non-western country. The results show that six key characteristics of inspiring leaders in Iran are: belief in followers, participative leadership, do as say, interpersonal skills, building trust and recognition. We also submitted a revised version of the Kolb's Learning Style Inventory questionnaire to the inspiring leaders of our study and found accommodating was the dominant learning style, followed by assimilating and converging. It is concluded that culture-specific factors, respondents' personal and educational background, and type of work affect leaders' behaviours and their preferred learning styles.

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