Servant Leaders Archive

The grandson of the legendary investor aims to bring some private-sector savvy to the growing world of mega-philanthropy.

Benjamin Lichtenwalner is the moderator of one of my favorite blogs on servant leadership, The Modern Servant Leader. He recently published a pretty comprehensive, and growing, list of the organizations and institutions that offer academic programs and education opportunities dedicated to servant leadership. I'll share that list with you below: Below is a list of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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Leaders have a responsibility for building and maintaining relationships, not only to their organization and stakeholders, but with their followers. Leading others involves serving them and looking out for their best interests–first. Leaders who serve their followers consciously, genuinely, inspirationally, and effectively create an environment based on trust; yielding high-performing and committed employees who, in [...]

     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 [...]

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 [...]

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