Emergency leadership is at the core of the modernization of emergency management capabilities at the micro-scale, and it is also an important type of leadership that needs to be theoretically con- structed in non-conventional situations. Emergency leadership can satisfy people′s need for certainty in public emergencies in terms of emotions, time, and information, and bring followers the ability to develop and adapt in the midst of uncertainty, thus mitigating the negative impacts of public emergencies on organizations. The newly developed emergency leadership scale includes three dimensions: resilient mindset, resilient thinking and emergency literacy. Empirical tests show that the scale has high reliability and validity and can be used as a measurement tool for emergency leadership.