The International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Published by Gonzaga University in collaboration with the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership

Senior Advisory Editor
Larry Spears
CEO of the Spears Center

Editor
Shann Ferch
Professor of Leadership, Gonzaga University

Corporate Partnerships Liaison
Mary McFarland
Dean, School of Professional Studies, Gonzaga University

Advisory and Contributing Authors Board

Author & Consultant, James A. Autry
Life & Work
James A. Autry retired in 1992 as president of the Meredith Magazine Group. In addition to Love and Profit, which won the Johnson, Smith and Kinsely Award in 1992, Mr. Autry is the author of two previous books of poetry, Nights Under a Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi, and was one of the poets featured in Bill Moyers's PBS series The Power of the Word.

Author & Professor, Warren Bennis
Reinventing Leadership
Warren Bennis is distinguished professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. He is the author of On Becoming a Leader and Why Leaders Can't Lead and has co-authored Leaders: Strategies for Change. He has served in an advisory position to four U.S. presidents, faculty member, as consultant, and university president.

Author & Consultant, Ken Blanchard
The Heart of a Leader
Ken Blanchard has impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies around the world as a prominent, gregarious, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant. Ken's best selling book, The One Minute Manager, co-authored with Spencer Johnson, has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Ken is chief spiritual officer of the Ken Blanchard Companies. He is also visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, where he received his BA and Ph.D. degrees.

Author & Consultant, Peter Block
Freedom and Accountability at Work
Peter Block, author, consultant, and speaker, has worked for more than thirty years with governments, businesses, and communities worldwide to bring service and accountability to a wide range of organizations and groups. Peter is the founder of two renowned training firms, Designed Learning and Block Petrella Weisbord. He is the author of The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion, Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, The Empowered Manager and The Answer to How is Yes.

Author & Professor, David Cooperrider
Appreciative Inquiry Handbook
Dr. David Cooperidder is professor and chair of the SIGMA Program for Human Cooperation and Global Action at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He has served as researcher and consultant to a wide variety of organizations. These projects are inspired by the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology for which he is co-originator. He has been recipient of Best Paper of the Year Awards at the Academy of Management.

Author & Consultant, Stephen Covey
First Things First Every Day
Stephen R. Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority and cochairman of Franklin Covey Company. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate from Brigham Young University, where he was professor of organizational behavior and business management and also served as director of university relations and assistant to the president. Dr. Covey is author of several acclaimed books, including The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which has been on top of the bestseller lists.

Author & Consultant, Max DePree
Leading without Power
Max De Pree writes from forty years of experience in the corporate world, almost as many in the non-profit world, and nineteen years as a grandparent. De Pree is chairman emeritus of Herman Miller, Inc., a member of Fortune magazine's National Business Hall of Frame, and a recipient of the Business Enterprise Trust's Lifetime Achievement Award. He has served on the boards of Fuller Theological Seminary, Hope College, and Worlds of Hope. De Pree is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management.

Author & Professor, Shann R. Ferch
Practicing Servant-Leadership
Shann R. Ferch is Professor of Leadership with the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University (see www.gonzaga.edu/doctoral). His essay, Servant-Leadership, Forgiveness, and Social Justice was selected for the nationally-acclaimed Voices of Servant-Leadership Series with the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership, and he is a contributing author to Practicing Servant-Leadership: Succeeding through trust, bravery, and forgiveness, edited by Larry Spears. Dr. Ferch is a research psychologist with the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Government, and a marriage and family psychologist in private practice. His work regarding leadership and the human will to forgive and reconcile has appeared in scientific journals internationally.

Author & Professor, Ronald A. Heifietz
Leadership on the Line
Ronald A. Heifetz, Cofounder of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is renowned worldwide for his seminal work on the practice and teaching of leadership. His widely acclaimed book, Leadership without Easy Answers, has been translated into many languages and is currently in its twelfth printing. A graduate of Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Heifetz is both a physician and a cellist (he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky).

Author & Consultant, Joseph Jaworski
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
Joseph Jaworski began his professional career as an attorney with Bracewell & Patterson. In 1980, Jaworski founded the American Leadership Forum. He completed a four-year assignment as head of Global Scenario Planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. In 1994 he joined the MIT Center for Organizational Learning and is also founder of the Centre for Generative Learning.

Author, Professor, & Consultant, James M. Kouzes
Credibility
James Kouzes is president of the TPG/Learning Systems, a company in the Tom Peters group. Kouzes and his colleagues have developed such innovative programs as "The Leadership Challenge Workshop," "The Credibility Factor Workshop," "Leadership is Everyone's Business," and "The Liberation Management Workshop." Kouzes is author of numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes on management education, leadership, and organizational development. He also coauthored The Leadership Challenge.

Author & Consultant, Ann McGee-Cooper
You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted
Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper is heralded as "the Pied Piper of corporate America" and as a "prophet in the business wilderness" and is a widely sought-after speaker and business consultant. McGee-Cooper has authored two other books, Time Management for Unmanageable People and Building Brain Power. She has a doctorate from Columbia University based on a self-conceived, interdisciplinary program in creative problem solving.

Author & Consultant, C. William Pollard
The Soul of the Firm
C. William Pollard is Chairman and CEO of the ServiceMaster Company. ServiceMaster has been recognized by Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times as one of the most respected companies in the world, and is ranked the No. 1 service company among the Fortune 500. Pollard speaks, writes and teaches on management and ethics, and is author of the best-selling The Soul of the Firm.

Author & Professor, Barry Posner
Credibility
Barry Z. Posner is professor of organizational behavior, Leavey School of Business and Administration, Santa Clara University. Posner is and internationally renowned scholar who has published more than eighty research and practitioner-oriented articles. In addition to coauthoring Credibility, he has also coauthored The Leadership Challenge, Getting the Job Done and Managing Project Teams and Task Forces to Success. Posner received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in organizational behavior and administrative theory.

Author, Professor, & Consultant, Peter Senge
Schools that Learn
Peter Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Business. He is the author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. He has lectured extensively throughout the world and worked with leaders in business, education, health care, and government. He received his B.S. in engineering from Stanford, and an M.S. in social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT.

Author & Consultant, Larry Spears
Focus on Leadership
Larry C. Spears is the Chief Executive Officer of the Spears Center, which was founded in 1969 and originally called the Center for Applied Ethics. The Center's mission is to carry the message of servant-leadership originated by Greenleaf, who was the Director of Management Research at AT&T, where he worked for thirty-eight years. Mr. Spears is also the editor of Insights on Leadership and Reflections on Leadership.

Author & Professor, Robert Spitzer, S.J.
The Spirit of Leadership
Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D., is the President and CEO of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington and former director of Gonzaga's Institute of Professional Ethics and the Institute on Character Development. He has consulted more than 40,000 executives, managers, team leaders, administrators and supervisors in over 300 large organizations.

Author & Consultant, Margaret Wheatley
Leadership and the New Science
Margaret Wheatley writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She is President emeritus of The Berkana Institute, a charitable global foundation serving life-affirming leaders around the world. Her newest book, Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, is a collection of her practice-focused writings, where she describes both the organizational and personal behaviors that bring her theories to life. Wheatley also authored Leadership and the New Science, Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future, and A Simpler Way (with Myron Kellner-Rogers).

Author & Consultant, Danah Zohar
Spiritual Intelligence: The Ultimate Intelligence
Danah Zohar was born and educated in the United States. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT, and then did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University. She is the author, with Ian Marshall, of the best-sellers The Quantum Self and The Quantum Society. In 1997 she and Ian Marshall published Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat?, a survey of 20th-century scientific ideas, and her business book, ReWiring the Corporate Brain. Her latest book is SQ--Spiritual Intelligence, the Ultimate Intelligence. She teaches in the Oxford Strategic Leadership Program at Oxford University. She lives in Oxford, England.

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