Based on my thesis work titled "Balancing the Strengths of Relationality and Hierarchy in Emergency Services: A First-Person Approach to Seeking Harmony in my Leadership Practice," this presentation will explore how we might leverage the strengths and benefits from both leadership approaches. The research, grounded in emergency service and Indigenous ways of knowing literature, explores what is meant by both terms, some of the history of the practices, and the tension that exists between these two, seemingly paradoxical leadership practices. It has a deliberate focus on the positive aspects of both, while also acknowledging some of the challenges and barriers. As the hierarchical approach is commonly found amongst the paramilitary structures of emergency services, this presentation will focus on some opportunities to increase relational practices through things such as self-reflection, gratitude, and other ways of knowing, to help bring balance to these two approaches. It will also briefly touch on some Indigenist concepts that can help provide perspective on how to balance two different (or multiple different) views. Lastly, it will focus on some of the benefits that can come from embracing both hierarchical and relational practices.