The Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) launched Leading from the Middle (LFM) in 2013 to support the development of middle leaders across the California Community Colleges. Every year LFM produces an internal evaluation report presenting what participants learned from their experiences; academy leaders incorporate that feedback into ongoing program development. This year's report focuses on the roles middle leaders can play in the early stages of design and development of Guided Pathways. This report provides an executive summary of the full report. The full report begins with LFM's purpose, design, and outcomes, and describes recent programmatic changes. The body of the report then presents observations about middle leaders in the development of Guided Pathways in the following categories: (1) The connection between LFM teams and college Guided Pathways leadership teams; (2) Application of LFM strategies and tools to development of Guided Pathways; (3) College progress in Guided Pathways; and (4) Anticipated challenges and opportunities for the coming year. Subsequent sections continue exploration of how middle leaders develop their leadership identity, particularly in the context of Guided Pathways, and further describe the embedded coaching component of the LFM program design. [For the full report "Middle Leaders in the Design and Development of Guided Pathways: Leading from the Middle 2018," see ED599404.]