At my high school, prefects and the head girl and boy were voted into their positions by classmates. When I was called into the headmaster’s office and told that I’d been chosen to be head girl for 2006, I was deeply shocked to be chosen. I don’t say this to humble brag (because really, who cares about a high school ‘position’ 10 years later? Not me) but because it was my first experience of being a leader, and opened my eyes to the fact that perhaps this quite traditional form of leadership wasn’t for me.