Leadership is never just one person if it is God's will. Moses had Aaron and Jethro and Joshuah, Jesus had Peter James and John, Rosa Parks had Martin Luther, etc. Leaders is more of an event in which two or more people cause something to happen that already resonates deep in the gut of the people. Consensus is never the issue, neither are leadership characteristics. If the vision the leaders have resonates deep enough within the fiber and core of the people, it is God's will and it will come to pass.
Most people yearn for the health and wholeness of the church.
All they need is for someone to come along and encourage them and articulate for them what they already feel. So it really isn't a leader and followers. Consider the midwife, who never asks if the expectant wants to give birth. Midwives don't try to get consensus on whether or not this person should give birth to the life within. No, the midwife knows it is a matter of life and death.