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The present study was designed to explore the level of job satisfaction and leadership potential among the college teachers of Khordha district in Odisha and to compare them with respect to their gender and length of teaching experience. The study further intended to find out the nature and extent of relationship between job satisfaction and leadership potential of the college teachers. Survey method was adopted for conducting the present investigation. The sample of the present study was consisted of 100 college teachers working in government as well as non-government aided +3 (degree) colleges of Khordha district. Job Satisfaction Scale developed by Singh and Sharma (2005) and Leadership Potential Inventory (LPI) developed and standardised by Panda & Kar (2015) were administered for collection of data. Mean, Standard Deviation (SD), t-ratios and r (product moment co-efficient of correlation) were computed for analysis of data. The findings of the study were; (i) the college teachers possessed significant job satisfaction, (ii) there was no significant difference between male and female college teachers with respect to their job satisfaction, (iii) the college teachers having 10 years and above teaching experience exhibited significantly more job satisfaction than the college teachers having below 10 years teaching experience, (iv) the college teachers possessed significant leadership potential, (v) the male and female college teachers differed significantly in leadership potential, (vi) the college teachers having 10 years & above teaching experience exhibited significantly more leadership potential than the college teachers having below 10 years teaching experience and (vii) There was significant and positive correlation between job satisfaction and leadership potential among college teachers.