Business unities and individuals alike are undergoing a major transformation that bring up to the table by the sudden outbreak of pandemic around the globe. The pandemic had not only transformed people’s way of working, but also accelerating the world to embrace digital transformation. The new leadership should take a sustainability view that reinvigorating human capital, utilizing digital connectivity, and bolstering growth with a resilient and inclusive in order to cope with crisis situation. This study explored how leadership style evolves to respond and adapt to the environment dynamics. Previous studies have outlined the main stream leadership style for major industrial revolutions. This study further identified the important factors of a leadership that makes a corporate to endure through crisis times by analyzing the well-performed corporates under pandemic times. This study employs a case analysis of the leadership style of Microsoft, especially during the pandemic. Research results had provided evidence that mindful leadership helps leaderships to develop empathy and a flexible mind that he/she can be more capable to stay open in the midst of stress, challenges, and difficulty. Therefore, incorporating a mindful leadership could gradually promote a healthy collaboration by fostering a supportive and caring community to problem solving with a deep compassion, empathy and growth mindset and with everyone’s welfare taking into considerations.

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