Polar early career researchers (ECRs) have voiced the need for culture change within the Arctic and Antarctic sciences and are leading the effort to make polar science research environments and systems more equitable more equitable, welcoming, inclusive, accessible, and diverse. When asked, “Where do they want to lead the polar research community?”, during the 2023 Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop (PPLW) hosted by the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO), participants described that they wanted to lead the polar research community towards a future where polar science research environments are welcoming and inclusive to all. However, despite this call for change from the early career community, the PPLW attendees described a lack of agency amongst ECRs to change the systems that polar research operates within. Challenges they cited that contribute to the feeling of limited agency to change systems include their limited positions of power and job security in their early career stages. PPLW attendees and the broader polar early career community have developed several ideas on how to pursue culture change within the polar research environment. For example, the PPLW attendees suggested that practicing the following six aspects of inclusive leadership: establishing collective group norms, practicing self-awareness, practicing empathy, actively listening, establishing and upholding transparent protocols, and sharing resources, could help drive systemic inclusive change within polar science in a recently published paper. This presentation will outline recommendations from the early career community related to how to practice inclusive leadership and create more inclusive and equitable polar research environments.