Leaders and followers relationships are complex and affected by many factors, one that has received little attention in the past is leader-follower distance. Distance influences leaders and followers, high and low power individuals, and affect the ways they represent information, their attitudes and behavior. This symposium explore the relationship between distance, leadership and power. This symposium has three aims, first exploring followers’ perspective of distance by examining the influence of different dimensions of distance on followers’ preference for leaders’ traits and leadership styles,. Second, this symposium aims to explore the ways in which power affects and shapes individuals’ representation of events and its subsequent outcomes. Last, it aims to explore leaders and followers’ different experiences of distance and resulting behavior and emotions. This symposium includes one conceptual paper, presenting a Social Distance Theory of Power, and four empirical papers that examine different conceptualizations of distance and power, and the ways in which distance influence leaders and followers’ perception, attitudes, evaluation and behavior. Together, these papers show the importance of distance and its influence on leadership and power in organizations, and display the current directions of thought and research of the topic.