Purpose: Transformational leaders create a dynamic and active vision for 
their organizations. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying the 
dimensions and components of transformational leadership style in the 
educational managers of Islamic Azad University.
Materials and Methods: In this qualitative study from the academic 
experts in the field of management and experts in the field of quality of 
educational services, number of 15 people based on the principle of 
theoretical saturation and with the purposeful sampling method were 
selected as a sample. To collect data were used from semi-structured 
interview, which its content validity according to experts' opinion was 
obtained 0.83 and their reliability with the agreement coefficient method 
between two coders was obtained 0.89. For data analysis were used from 
theme analysis method in NVivo version 10 software.
Findings: The findings showed that the transformational leadership style 
in the educational managers of Islamic Azad University had 8 dimensions, 
23 components and 143 indicators.
The relationship network dimension has two components of horizontal 
interactions in the university and vertical interactions in the university, the 
leader characteristics dimension has three components of personality traits, 
leader competence and professional ethics of change leaders, the resource 
preparation dimension has five components of presence of suitable 
hardware facilities, presence of suitable software facilities, existence of the 
integration system of statistics and information, benefiting from IT 
specialist human resources and empowerment and training, the status 
review dimension has two components of planning and change status 
review and existing and desirable situation review, the change drivers 
dimension has two components of creating motivation for transformation 
and support and encourage to learning, the management in the time of 
change has two components of conflict management and collaborative 
management, the dimension of team formation and stakeholder support has 
three components of gaining political support, forming a team of experts 
and building trust and the dimension of change measures has four 
components of change structure, justice in the time of change, performance 
review and strategy of change.
Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, to improve leadership 
in the Islamic Azad University it is possible to provide the basis for 
improving and promoting the identified dimensions and components of 
transformational leadership style.