Excerpt from a press release on PRWire.com, June 25, 2011. On July 1, Marylhurst’s Center for Servant Leadership welcomed a dozen students from Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and the United States as they celebrated their graduation from the 2011 International Servant Leadership Academy. Since 2006, the modest Oregon-based nonprofit Co-Serve International has held five conferences known as [...]
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Servant Leadership Academy Graduation
We are looking forward to hosting Co-Serve International's Servant Leadership Academy event tomorrow. On July 1st, 18 students and staff from Kazakstan, Ukraine, Mexico and the USA will be gathering in Flavia Hall Salon for the 5th annual Servant Leadership Academy graduation ceremony. Activities start at 6 p.m. and are open to the public. Featured [...]
West Michigan dads who own businesses leave legacy of leadership, success to their children
I know Father’s Day has already gone by. My Dad would have been 81 this year. Here’s a great set of stories about servant-leader Dads. Towards the end of the article is a reference to Greenleaf’s “Best Test” of a servant-leader; that the person being led is more likely themselves to become a servant-leader. Thanks [...]
Call for Papers – 2011 Regional Conference on Servant Leadership
Marylhurst University, in Marylhurst, Oregon, in partnership with the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, the Spears Center for Servant Leadership, and the Peter R. Marsh Foundation is proud to host the 2011 Pacific Northwest Region Conference on Servant Leadership on October 20 – 21, 2011. Call for Papers and Presentations: You are invited to submit [...]
Servant Leaders Remember What is Important
Well, we’re still here. The world didn’t end. Or, at least not in my time zone. Or…maybe it did end, and this is what is left. Quips of relief at not having to worry about paying bills anymore, or of needing to say, “I love you…just in case” made it clear that the possibility of [...]
Servant Leaders: Whence Went Civility?
Muder and Vader stand facing the camera. Expressions as stoic as one might expect of a couple who had survived World War II relatively intact. Their home, which was originally a Dominican monastery 60 kilometers northeast of Paris, had been commandeered during the war for use as an R & R retreat for Nazi officers. [...]
Public Servant as Servant-Leader
A police officer sets up a speed trap at a school zone. Before long, the officer clocks someone transiting the zone nearly 25 mph over the posted limit. Pulling over the offender, the police officer discovers that the offender is another police officer from his own precinct. Thinking to extend a professional courtesy, the officer [...]
In God’s Time: My Remarks from Friday’s Chapel Service
This week marks the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti claiming the lives of 230,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless. The devastation continues to ravage the country and its people. In October an outbreak of cholera, which, according to the World Health Organization, has yet to peak, infected 171,304 [...]
Under Pressure: Learning to be a “Clutch” Leader
By Sean Silverthorne In the sports world, a “clutch” player performs best when the pressure is on, backs are to the wall, and all eyes turned their way. Think Michael Jordan, Joe Montana, Martina Navratilova. When it was all on the line, they not only didn’t wilt, they got better. Is there such a thing [...]
Engaging Movements | Axiom News
Was recently interviewed by Axiom News about the Center for Servant Leadership. This is the second of two articles that came from that interview. Engaging Movements Tweet