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Organizational leadership is particularly well suited to study via autoethnographic methods. However, major criticisms still influence the credibility of autoethnography and reduce its prevalence as a tool of study in scientific analyses of semiotically charged areas of social life. Organizational leadership is heavily influenced by semiotic contexts, few of which have been well articulated or connected to the disambiguation of meaning via experience. The goal of this thesis is to grapple with the overt and covert parallels between semiotics and organizational leadership paradigms through an auto-ethnographic approach. Much of this work is focused through the ideological underpinnings of leadership with complimentary context from organizational scholarship. A semiotic method adapted to the task of autoethnographic analysis with a specific interest in both the perceived and the latent aspects of leadership and organization occurred within a particular research site and setting circa 2023 - 2025. The research site of this work takes place at the University of Michigan and the research setting’s central theme is the multi-faceted development work related to introducing a working seed library to the University’s campuses. The impact of human and other-than-human (seed) relations shows new dimensions of organizational leadership than previously discussed in critical or conventional literature. The results of this study suggest plausible recontextualizations of ‘buried narrative’ along with areas for dynamic reframing in the broader context of organizational leadership as a prevailing social phenomenon.