Knowledge-based organizational structures need leaders who manage and ensure the effectiveness of knowledge. Knowledge leaders encourage employees to participate in knowledge management processes, contribute to adopting knowledge management as part of organizational culture, and lead knowledge management activities by choosing the most appropriate infrastructure and technology. Schools are knowledge-intensive organizations that possess a large number of information areas that must be managed. The main actors who are responsible for managing these areas of knowledge are school principals. This situation requires school principals to be competent in terms of both knowledge management and leadership skills. The purpose of this study is to make a conceptual evaluation of the relationship between knowledge leadership and knowledge management. To achieve this aim, the relationships between knowledge leadership and knowledge management were examined, a conceptual evaluation of these relationships was made, and the importance of knowledge leadership both at the organizational level and the school level was emphasized. Designed as a theoretical literature review, it investigates the hypothesis that knowledge leaders undertake important roles in knowledge management processes. Therefore, the study is important for understanding the role of knowledge leaders in knowledge management.