Leadership is an important factor influencing performance improvement the organizations in order to achieve the objectives that must be achieved including “Tri Dharma College”. Lecturer, "is one of the important assets that is very instrumental in advancing and resignation of a college. Improving the ability of lecturers to be fundamental achieve the goals of the Tri Dharma College, which can be realized through leadership of higher education institutions ". This study, "uses a qualitative descriptive type in order to find out the problems faced and find solutions. Primary data collected through documentation and observation and analyzed using interactive models developed by ", (Miles and of Huberman, 2014). The results of this study prove that : "College leaders who use a transformational style can be seen from the aspect preparation of programs involving lecturers, briefing according to the main tasks and functions there are standards of higher education, and conditional intensive supervision". The performance of lecturers in implementing the Tri Dharma of Higher Education was quite good however still needs to be improved, therefore the leadership needs to pay attention and also motivate lecturers materially and non-materially, so that lecturers can improve performance in implementing the Tri Dharma College.

Keywords : Innovation, Leadership, Performance, Tri Dharma.