This paper analyses three cases of female leadership in Game of Thrones, with a view to understanding how a popular television series constructs different forms of female leadership and, allegorically, represents the challenges female leaders face in international organisations from male subordinates and colleagues. Drawing on the HR literature on leadership, particularly in cross-cultural settings, the paper argues that Daenerys Targaryen is constructed as a female leader who adopts a traditionally masculine model of leadership, Catelyn Stark as a female leader who operates within traditional gender roles, and Sansa Stark as a leader who hybridises the two. The paper considers the implications of the three characters’ story arcs and narrative fates for how gender and leadership are constructed in organisations, and how “appropriate” leadership styles are defined for women, especially in American and US-influenced business settings. Finally, it contends that new models of leadership are emerging in organisations through discourses about leadership styles in popular culture and through cross-cultural exchange in HR management.