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Organizations are facing every day the need to change. Change is inevitable due to dynamic environment organizations deal with. Organizations undertake changes to survive or to be more effectiveness. Changes may be small or big, whatever they are change process needs to be managed. Organizations are interested to have successful changes and effective leadership plays an important role in organizational change success Effective leadership is always required to bring effective changes. Leaders have an important role during change management. Employees have positive attitudes and behavior to organizational change, when they see that leaders believe in proposed change and they work hard to make change process successful during organizational change, leaders have to create an environment where employees feel to be protected from change and they feel that leadership will support them during difficulties. Employees needs that their leaders to create connections and commitment during change. In this paper, we will analyze the role of leaders in change process. Also, we will describe what a visionary leader is. During change process there are different phases (Kotter, 1996). This paper will analyze what a leader can do in each phase. Also, we will distinguish the differences among managers, change agent and leaders.