2010 Annual Conference
Conference Workshops
The 20th Annual Greenleaf Conference will have a variety of workshop offerings. We hope to have workshop sessions available to meet the needs of all attendees. Some of the sessions to be presented include:
The Core Message of Robert Greenleaf
Isabel Lopez
In 1970, Robert K. Greenleaf launched the modern Servant Leadership movement with his essay, “The Servant as Leader.” Isabel Lopez will guide the workshop participants in an exploration of Greenleaf’s core message as it relates to individuals, organizations and communities today. Lopez is president of Lopez Leadership Services, specializing in leadership development. During her service as a corporate executive of a Fortune 500 company, she supervised hundreds of employees and managed multi-million dollar budgets. She consults for a wide variety of organizations, has published many articles, and is a contributing author to Reflections on Leadership and Faith in Leadership. She is known as a provocative weaver of tales and texts.
Building a Servant-Institution: A Forty Year Perspective
Richard Pieper
This workshop will describe the values, decisions, and systems that have shaped the development of a servant leadership culture at Pieper Electric and PPC Partners during the past 48 years. Richard Pieper recently retired as Chairman of PPC Partners, Inc., which owns a series of electrical service and construction firms in the Midwest and South. He joined Pieper Electric as President in 1960. At that time the family-owned business had eight employees and was doing $250,000 of business per year. Today, PPC Partners, Inc. employs 900-1,100 people, has sales in the low nine figures, and is one of the top electrical contracting firms in the United States. Peiper is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. He has endowed chairs for professors of servant leadership at several colleges and universities.
The Meaningful Lives of Servant Leaders
Dr. Kent M. Keith
In this workshop, Dr. Keith will describe the benefits of finding meaning in life and work, universal sources of meaning, and the ways in which servant-leaders live closely to their sources of meaning. Participants will be invited to fill out a self-survey, rating their own sources of meaning in life. The results will be aggregated and compared with research on sources of meaning that Dr. Keith has conducted over the past eight years. Dr. Keith is the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. He has been an attorney, state government official, high tech park developer, university president, and YMCA executive. He has published five books, including The Case for Servant Leadership. He is known throughout the world as the author of The Paradoxical Commandments.
How Can You Apply Servant Leadership Principles in a School Setting?
Cindy Sparks and Meghan Blackmon
How can you apply servant leadership principles in a school setting? Come find out about the methods that are used by Columbus, Georgia’s only Pre-K through 12 independent college preparatory program. Student involvement with the Servant Leadership Program is a core part of the overall Brookstone experience. Cindy Sparks is the Director of the Servant Leadership Program. Prior to this role, Cindy taught elementary grades for sixteen years and worked in other administrative roles for Brookstone School. She also worked at the Center for Servant Leadership at the Pastoral Institute, in partnership with Columbus State University, for two years. Meghan Blackmon is an assistant in the Servant Leadership Program at Brookstone School. She is a graduate of Brookstone School and Vanderbilt University.
The Journey: Servant Leadership in Columbus, Georgia
Kelvin Redd
The City of Columbus is committed to creating and sustaining servant leadership throughout the community. In this interactive session, participants will hear how civic and community organizations, business managers and professionals, college students, teenagers and children are helping the City develop servant leaders. Kelvin Redd is the Director of the Center for Servant Leadership at the Pastoral Institute in Columbus, Georgia. For 13 years, he worked for Synvous Financial Corporation in Columbus, a company that took first place in the Fortune magazine list of the “The Best Companies to Work for in America” in 1999. Redd is the author of the book Stand Tall: Essays on Life and Servant Leadership. He writes a monthly newsletter, Servant Leadership Today and a blog, www.iLead2Serve.com.
Servant Leadership: Integrating Principles and Practice in
Employee
Evaluations and Reviews
Derrick Strom and Dr. Jim Laub
This workshop addresses the question: If we value the concept of servant leadership in our organization, why don’t we measure aspects of servant leadership as part of our employee review process? The workshop will cover three areas on which each employee should be evaluated that are critical to achieving optimal organizational health and success. Those areas are: (1) helps to build a healthy servant-minded culture; (2) helps build a life-long learning culture; and (3) helps build a successful and growing organization. Dr. Jim Laub serves as the Dean of the MacArthur School of Leadership at Palm Beach Atlantic University and as Professor of Leadership Studies. He is the creator of the Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA) which measures organizational health from a servant leadership perspective. Derrick Strom is an organizational development consultant and OLAgroup partner, helping organizations utilize the Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA) and other tools to facilitate change.
The Art of Servant Leadership: Designing Your Organization for the Sake of Others
Dr. Tony Baron
This workshop is designed for both established servant-leaders and seekers of servant leadership principles who desire that their organization (profit or non-profit) move from traditional models of leadership to developing a culture that is sustaining, profitable, and actually exists for the sake of others. This workshop will show you how to become a cultural architect even in the most difficult of circumstances, and will provide an opportunity to participate. Tony Baron holds a double doctorate in psychology and theology and currently serves as President of the Servant Leadership Institute at Datron World Communications, Inc., headquartered in Vista, California. Dr. Baron’s two most recent books are entitled, The Art of Servant Leadership: Designing Your Organization for the Sake of Others and The Cross and the Towel: Aligning Your Church to HIS Church. An ordained Anglican priest, Dr. Baron is Board Certified in Forensic Medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychological Specialties.
Emerging Leaders
Courtney Knies
Robert Greenleaf saw the importance of teaching servant leadership to students. He emphasized this idea in his writings Teacher as Servant, Education and Maturity, and The Leadership Crisis: A Message for College and University Faculty. This workshop will look at ways to put Greenleaf’s ideas into practice, focusing on higher education while also touching on programs for elementary through high school students. Knies has interned for the Greenleaf Center, JDLevy and Associates, and Huntingburg Foundation, and is a lifetime member of Girl Scouts. She is a senior at DePauw University, where she is in her fourth year as a Bonner Scholar, a community service scholarship program. Through her work at DePauw’s civic engagement center, The Hartman House, she has learned about, implemented, and experienced the impact of servant leadership.
The African Moral Tradition as a Resource for Leadership Education:
Developing Ethical Leaders for America
Dr. Melvinia King and Dr. Walter Earl Fluker
This workshop will examine a theoretical leadership approach supportive of academic rigor, social responsibility, cultural awareness, ethics/compliance regulations and global inclusion that will serve as the “tapestry” for re-designing work to address ethics within global academic programs, research, and curriculum development. This leadership approach can also be used as a tool for determining how reactive our ethical centers will be to societal “temperature changes” from a moral and global perspective. Three points of focus will be shared, derived from an ethical leadership model based on character, civility, and community, as tangible solutions used to heal a nation suffering from a ruptured ethical center. Dr. Melvinia Turner King is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Leadership Studies Minor at Morehouse College. Dr. Walter Earl Fluker is Coca-Cola Professor and Executive Director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College.
Ethics Wisdom in Decision Making: Rediscovering the Three Rs of Leadership
Dr. Richard Kyte and Thomas Thibodeau
One of the things that makes servant leadership distinctive is that it values wisdom as the basis of good decision-making. This workshop will address three conditions of wisdom: developing the habit of reflection, which allows one to avoid self-deception; nurturing good relationships, which allows one to avoid cynicism; and practicing recreation, which allows one to stay refreshed and focused. The desired result is to see things clearly and not be confused by the distractions that come with change, doubt, and stress. Tom Thibodeau is Distinguished Professor of Servant Leadership at Viterbo University. In 2001, he was instrumental in coordinating an effort that led to the establishment of the Masters of Arts in Servant Leadership program. Richard Kyte is Director of the D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership and Professor of Philosophy at Viterbo University. He is author of The Ethical Life, a biweekly newspaper column.
The Relational Roots of Servant Leadership
Dr. Fred Burnham and Martin Darby
Jesus’ concept of servant leadership was deeply rooted in a uniquely relational understanding of human existence. This workshop will explore the relational ontology implicit in his thought, because it is an integral component in the development and sustainability of virtually any servant community, secular or religious. The Rev Dr Fred Burnham, a Senior Fellow of the Bennett J. Sims Institute for Servant Leadership, is an historian of science and an Episcopal priest. He spent 30 years of his career in academia exploring the cultural implications of the new sciences. After his near-death experience on 9/11, he witnessed the spontaneous emergence of servant leaders all over ground zero. Ever since then he has devoted himself to the study of the unique character of servant communities. Martin Darby, born and raised in England, retired in 2006 as CEO of the US operation of Coates Inks, a global printing ink manufacturer headquartered in England, to become President and Executive Director of the Bennett J. Sims Institute for Servant Leadership.
The Courageous Follower: Partnering with Servant-Leaders
Ira Chaleff
In their organizational lives, individuals are not simply "leaders" or "followers"—
they play both roles, up and down the hierarchy and laterally in teams and cross- functional work groups. What impact does a follower make when exhibiting the behaviors of courageous followership? This workshop will explore a dynamic model of partnering with servant-leaders, and bringing out the best in their leadership. Ira Chaleff is the author of The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders, now in its 3rd edition, and co-editor of The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Make Great Leaders and Organizations, part of the Warren Bennis Leadership Series. He was cited in the Harvard Business Review as one of the three pioneers in the growing field of followership studies. Chaleff has also been named one of the “100 best minds on leadership” by Leadership Excellence magazine.
Developing Servant Leadership Characteristics
Ronnie Hinson
Ronnie Hinson, CEO of PPC Partners, Inc. and electrical contracting company, will explain the importance of implementing servant leadership throughout his company. He will be joined by a panel of PPC employees who will discuss the ten servant leadership characteristics derived from Greenleaf’s original essay by Larry Spears. Each panel member will share examples of the ways in which they are developing a characteristic. The workshop participants will break into small groups to discuss a characteristic, and then report back to the group as a whole. The panelists from PPC will be Melissa Skiffington, Project Manager for PieperLine; Milo Johnson, General Foreman for PieperLine; Chris Moore, Branch Manager of Carolina Power; Andy Bell, Branch Supervisor for MetroPower Atlanta; Chris Surges, Branch Manager of Major Construction Pieper Electric; Chris Raiford, Project Manager for MetroPower Atlanta; Sylvester Jones, Management Trainee for MetroPower in Tallahassee, Florida; Kayanne Blackwell, Controller of MetroPower; Angela Bonnett, Human Resource Generalist of Pieper Electric; and Danny Gibson, Vice President of MetroPower.
How to Be a Servant-Leader When Your Boss Isn’t
Rebecca Nordeman and Joe Drouin
“What if I want to be a servant-leader, but my boss doesn’t ‘buy in’ to the servant-leader approach?” This workshop will answer that question. Rebecca Nordeman has been working with both public and private sector professionals in their unique work environments for 20 years. Her work has taken her to 15 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa. Joe Drouin is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Kelly Services Inc., a world leader in human resources solutions headquartered in Troy, Michigan. Drouin has led multinational teams to deliver exceptional results across geographic and cultural boundaries. He spent 2 years in China and 5 years in Europe with TRW before joining Kelly Services in 2008.
The “E-gi-e-ta” Leadership Principles of Korean Patriot Ahn Changho
Dr. Sang-Mok Suh
Ahn Changho was a Korean patriot who led the independence movement until his death in a Japanese prison in 1939. He founded three schools, and preached various aspects of leadership such as honesty, love, and sharing. He lived for a time in California, where he worked with Korean immigrants. This workshop will highlight Ahn Changho’s leadership principles, which match the key elements of Greenleaf’s servant leadership concept. The paper also suggests several ways to train ‘e-gi-e-ta’ leaders in real life, and proposes international efforts to synthesize various servant leadership concepts in the west as well as in the east. Dr. Sang-Mok Suh is currently Chairman of the Kyunggi Welfare Foundation. He was a member of the Korean National Assembly during 1988-2000, and Minister of Health and Welfare in the Korean Government during 1993-95. Dr. Suh received a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Amherst College in 1969, and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1974.
Servant Leadership and the World’s Great Religions
Dr. Sam Scheibler
From the Udana-Varga of Buddhism to the Shayast-na-Shayast of Zoroastrianism, almost all religious traditions ascribe to the foundational concepts of servant leadership. This workshop will explore the potential for these points of cohesion to open wide possibilities for mutual understanding, creative cooperation, and common purpose.
Dr. Samuel Scheibler, an educator and community organizer in Wisconsin, was the Founding Chair of the Pieper Family Endowed Chairs for Servant Leadership. He has degrees in cultural anthropology and church history as well as theology and intercultural communications. He has taught in the university classroom for 27 years. He speaks seven languages, and has published books and articles in several languages on topics ranging from German folk customs to international business ethics. Dr. Scheibler has served as a cultural consultant for international and national organizations and corporations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Walt Disney Company, and the International Olympic Committee.
Mentoring Servant Leadership: A Spiritual and Effectiveness Model
Gary Strack
This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the importance of mentoring servant leadership, which is vital for the development of the next generation of servant-leaders. Participants will leave with a meaningful model that they can interpret, develop and apply in their own unique circumstances. Gary Strack is the former President/CEO of Boca Raton Community Hospital and the Orlando Regional Healthcare System. He has been recognized nationally for his leadership in planning and building the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women, and the planning and development of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando. He currently serves as a strategic advisor to the CEO and senior leadership of Paquin Healthcare, a leading retail healthcare organization. Paquin Healthcare was recently recognized by Inc Magazine as one of America’s fastest growing companies.
Bringing Servant Leadership to Life at the Individual, Team and Organizational Level
Gus Gustafson and Thomas Griffin
This highly interactive, energizing and experiential workshop will bring together many of the real-life learnings and experiences that have been gained by the presenters from working with servant-leadership at the individual, team and organizational levels. The workshop will invite the participant to gain new insights into their own particular servant leadership journey, and discover models and applications that they can then take back with them. Dr. Thomas J. Griffin is currently responsible for the design and execution of the company-wide learning and organization development strategy at U.S. Cellular. In this role, he ensures that associates and leaders at all levels are provided with the training, education and developmental experiences needed to deliver the ideal customer experience and build a culture of sustainable excellence. Dr. Jim “Gus” Gustafson currently leads the creation, marketing, management and teaching of the Executive Education Programs and emerging Ph.D./DBA Programs in Socially-Responsible Leadership. He recently served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Organization Development Journal.
Facilitative, Servant Leadership: Equip, Engage, Empower
Pat Heiny and MaryJo Clark
The current work, community, and family climate calls for leaders who can facilitate the growth of individual participants and build a trusting and respectful dynamic within the team, while ensuring that important work is accomplished. This interactive workshop will help facilitative servant-leaders fill their tool boxes with practical approaches to these challenges. Mary Jo Clark and Pat Heiny help organizations and communities to develop effective 21st century leadership and visions. Their clients have included Wayne Hospital in Ohio; the Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville; the American Express Call Center in Greensboro; and the Kansas Health Foundation. Clark has served on the faculties of Wayne State University, Miami University, Southern Connecticut State College and Indiana University East, and Heiny has taught Adult Basic Education.
The Council of Equals
George SanFacon and Larry Spears
Robert Greenleaf called upon servant-leaders to be first among equals on a council of equals, rather than a “lone chief atop a hierarchical pyramid.” This session will emphasize the practical; that is, how to apply these concepts in your life, workplace, and organization. George SanFacon served as Director of the Housing Facilities Department at the University of Michigan from 1983 to 2004, where he pioneered the implementation of a council-of-equals governance model. He is the author of A Conscious Person’s Guide to the Workplace. Larry C. Spears is an author and the editor of a dozen books on servant-leadership. From 1990 to 2007, he served as President of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership. Larry is now the President of the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership. SanFacon and Spears are co-authors of the essay, “Holistic Servant-Leadership.”
People-Purpose-Performance: Barry-Wehmiller’s Vision of People-Centric Leadership
Robert Chapman
The Barry-Wehmiller Companies believe that business enterprise has the opportunity to become the most powerful, positive influence on our society by providing a cultural environment in which people can realize their gifts, apply and develop their talents, and feel a genuine sense of fulfillment for their contributions in pursuit of a common inspirational vision.
Bob Chapman, Barry-Wehmiller CEO, will share his experiences in bringing this belief to life. He will focus on Barry-Wehmiller’s people-centric leadership model and how remaining true to its beliefs allowed Barry-Wehmiller to weather the 2009 economic downturn and emerge in 2010 stronger than ever. Robert Chapman has served as Chairman and CEO of the family-owned capital equipment and services company since 1975. With a vision of “Achieving Principled Results on Purpose,” the company has experienced a pattern of 20 percent compound growth in revenue and share value over a 20-year period.
Kiwanis Key Leader Program
Dick Peterson
Since 2005, more than 10,000 high school students through the world have learned the tenets of service leadership from Kiwanis Key Leader—a weekend leadership retreat for high school students that begins with an exploration of the call by Robert Greenleaf to live servant leadership in our daily lives. This workshop will utilize parts of the curriculum in an interactive format that will explore the concepts which are as pertinent to all adults as well as students. Dick Peterson joined the staff of Kiwanis International in June, 2004 to be the Manager of the new Key Leader program. After secondary teaching experience in suburban St. Louis, he began full-time work as a youth camp administrator in 1975.
Board Servant Leadership as Performance vs. Intention
John Carver, Ph.D.
Servant leadership at the board level requires not only good intentions by individual members, but a design for governance that yields more than the sum of its parts. Organizational complexity and the pressures of time make a board’s ability to serve and to lead difficult, if not impossible, without a technology of governance that is as conceptually strong as the technologies used by the staffs that boards govern. In this workshop, John Carver will offer brief comments and then respond to participants’ questions. The focus will be on the need for a theory-based approach that enables boards to be good servants and good leaders. John Carver received his B.S. in business and economics from the University of Tennessee, and his Ph.D. in clinical and research psychology from Emory University. In 1982 he began a consulting career based on his unique framework for board leadership called Policy Governance®, a framework that is consistent with servant leadership. Since that time Dr. Carver has published five books and over 200 articles on governance, and has consulted with organizations in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia.
The "Practice" of Servant Leadership
Ralph Lewis
A "practice is a discipline of daily life aimed at improving one's skills or character. Servant leadership is ideal for such a practice. Leaders can explore in depth their own commitment to servant leadership and what it means to them in the everyday business world. This workshop will look at the key concepts, as well as the practicalities of setting up and running groups devoted to practice. Ralph is a Leadership Development consultant and a Programme Director at London Business. He is also the Chair of the UK Greenleaf Centre for Servant-Leadership, co-founded by John Noble and himself. Lewis worked as an engineer and systems analyst before becoming a university lecturer at Cranfield School of Management and moving into Leadership Development. He has worked with the top management teams of many international companies in computing, pharmaceutical, finance, public and charities sectors and has worked extensively in Europe, USA, Asia and Africa. He has also written many articles on leadership development and several books. He was co-editor of Servant-Leadership: Bringing the Spirit of Work to Work.
Can Servant Leadership Work in Federal Government?
Rick Byrd
The Wage and Investment Division (W & I) of the IRS is comprised of 50,000 employees. The senior leaders have started to implement servant leadership as part of their management philosophy. This workshop will describe their journey. The challenges include (1) helping managers to embrace the servant leadership concept; (2) helping managers to share their power with employees; (3) identifying the ways in which servant leadership drives performance; and (4) learning how the government can serve the public effectively with this concept. Rick Byrd is the Commissioner of W & I, which serves approximately 122 million customers, accounting for 94 million tax returns. Before being named as Commissioner in 2008, Rick served as Deputy Commissioner for a year. Prior to that, he was the Director, Field Compliance Services, and the Special Agent in Charge for the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Office of Investigations. President Bush honored Rick for Outstanding Community Service Volunteer Work in a White House ceremony, and he was recognized for teaching ethics in high schools in Chicago and Washington, DC.
Present and Future Perspectives on Servant Leadership Research
Dr. Dail Fields
This workshop will review the current status and trends in servant leadership research and suggest an agenda for moving research to the next level. The workshop will draw upon the perspectives of a panel of leadership scholars currently engaged in servant leadership research. The panel will present alternative strategies that will engage workshop participants in envisioning progress and goals for future servant leadership research. Dail Fields received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. from The Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a professor in the School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship at Regent University, serves as editor of the International Journal of Leadership Studies, and is author of Taking the Measure of Work, a reference guide published by Sage Publications. Dr. Fields conducts an international research program in leadership, has published over 30 research studies, and has been an adjunct faculty member and guest speaker for professional organizations and universities in Lithuania, Russia, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Guatemala, South Africa, and Hong Kong. Dr. Fields previously served on the faculties of George Washington University and the City University of Hong Kong.
Teaching Servant Leadership
Dr. Ed Queen
This workshop will address key pedogogical issues in the teaching of servant leadership, including the relationship between servant leadership as an attitude toward the world and as a set of practices, how to improve people's practices of servant leadership, and the role of individual and organizational "learning" in servant leadership. Edward Queen is director of the D. Abbott Turner Program in Ethics and Servant Leadership and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies at Emory University's Center for Ethics. Queen received his B.A. from Birmingham-Southern College, his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Divinity School of the Unviersity of Chicago, and his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. Queen has consulted with numerous organizations, including the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, the Pew Charitable Trusts, Independent Sector, USAID, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. He has written, coauthored, or edited numerous books, including Serving Those In Need: A Handbook for Managing Faith-Based Human Services Organizations, and Philanthropy in the World's Traditions.
Building and Sustaining a Successful Business Environment that Reflects
Servant Leadership
Tom Crawford
A servant leadership environment is easy to talk about, but challenging at times to build. In this workshop, Tom will outline the systems needed to create an environment that fosters teamwork and excitement. Learn how these steps can impact culture, environment, communication and training while building accountability and inspired leadership. Tom Crawford has been in the financial services sector for 45 years, and is considered one of the most successful in the country. He had major impact at Allstate, CAN, Prudential and Crawford & Company, where he served as President and CEO. He also built Southern Heritage Insurance Company from the ground up, from 1984 until it was bought by Geico in 1991. As CEO for his own company, Crawford Corporate Coaching, Tom currently coaches senior executives and agency owners in the art of building successful business environments. In 2007, Tom received the prestigious Turknett Leadership Character Award which is based on character and integrity in leadership. He is the current President of the Atlanta Chapter of CEO Netweavers and serves on the national board.
College of St. Elizabeth and LaGrange College
Dr. John Crews, Monsignor Thomas McDade
Dr. Quincy Brown, Dr. Charles Thompson
In the summer of 2007, the College of Saint Elizabeth launched a doctoral program in educational leadership. The program's mission is to prepare globally conscious servant-leaders who are grounded in the deepening of human knowledge and the commitment to social justice and ethical practices. The workshop will describe the origin and development of the doctoral program, the substance of the curricular experiences, and an assessment of the program's progress during its first three years. Dr. John R. Crews currently serves as the Program Chair in Educational Leadership at the College of Saint Elizabeth. Prior to his role in higher education, Dr. Crews spent 20 years in public school leadership roles. Monsignor Thomas McDade, Scholar-in-Residence and Doctoral Program Coordinator at the College of Saint Elizabeth, has served as Secretary for Education for the United States Catholic Conference where he assisted the Bishop's Committee in the development, management, and communication of its policies and agenda for all levels of Catholic education in the United States.
The workshop will also describe programs at LaGrange College, which offers adult students a degree-completion program in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis on servant leadership. Adult student cohorts research and develop service projects that benefit the community alongside their studies. LaGrange College's co-curricular program features traditional and adult students engaging in community servant-leader projects to address their passions and meet needs in the community or society at large. Quincy Brown is the Vice President for Spiritual LIfe and Church Relations at LaGrange College. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and serves as a minister on staff at First UMC LaGrange as part of the College and Church connection. He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Gammon Seminary of the Interdenominational Theological Center, and a Master of Divinity, cum laude, from the Candler School of Theology of Emory University.
Thriving in the Leadership Crucible: Who Does, Does Not, and Why
Dr. Thomas J. Rice
The primary objective of this workshop is to introduce the participants to a concept called “The Leadership Crucible” and engage them in an in-depth exploration of its meaning and practical value for the work of leaders who aspire to transform their leadership practice. The research-based perspective is that gifted leaders are the product of a healthy socialization, courage, discipline, and principled belief in a higher purpose. They are individuals who’ve chosen to adopt a set of values and practices that are developed and tempered over a long, often painful journey of unfolding awareness and increasing wisdom and humility. Thomas J. Rice is a Director of TruePoint, an organization focused on building “high commitment/high performance organizations.” He has been a professor of sociology and anthropology at Denison University, Georgetown, and The National University of Ireland, as well as a Research Associate at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Dr. Rice is the author/coauthor of four books and over 50 articles.
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