This presentation is intended to go through my past experience with leading incident response teams during major incidents. I will walk through several of the past incidents I have worked and lead, and discuss some of the common mistakes of incident response leadership, as well as the things people should be doing when they are executing an incident response leadership role. A large portion of the presentation will focus on communication skills, how to organize a team, and how to make sure that everyone is pushing in a single direction. Other aspects of the talk will discuss the issues that arise during most incident responses, ranging from burnout and resource mismanagement to orchestrating a project with no set timeline.