Clergy is the generic term for formal religious leadership within a given religion.

The meetings are without formal leadership.

Left School did not have a formal leadership, but objectively, its three founders took the lead.

The group has no formal leadership.

The 2011 Israeli housing protests have no formal leadership.

Some argue that there was no formal leadership during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic.

However Grey had given up the formal leadership in 1824.

The group has no formal leadership, just a Web site and a virtual press office to handle inquiries.

Bass (1990) suggested that autonomous work groups can substitute for formal leadership.

These were organized by informal tribal leaders (although the Huaorani had no chiefs or formal leadership in general).