2012 Annual Conference
Concurrent Workshops
The 22nd Annual Greenleaf Conference will feature 18 workshops. Information about the program is available below. More information will be added as it becomes available.
Organizational Implementation
“Adventures in Integrating Servant Leadership into the Academy” John Stahl-Wert, Jim Dittmar
This workshop will describe ways in which servant leadership can be integrated into the governance, executive leadership, curriculum, and student activities programs in colleges and universities. Several examples will be shared, including successes and failures.
The workshop will provide a practical guide for applying the “Five Actions of the Serving Leader” described in the internationally best-selling book, The Serving Leader, co-authored by John Stahl-Wert and Ken Jennings. Dr. John Stahl-Wert is CEO of the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, serving leaders in far-reaching community and business partnerships as well as SHIP, a leadership training company providing practical application tools for implementing servant leadership in businesses and organizations. He teaches in the graduate leadership programs of Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa. and Bakke Graduate University in Seattle, Washington. Dr. James K. Dittmar serves as chair and professor of the Department of Leadership Studies and director of the Master of Science in Organizational Leadership Program at Geneva College. Dr. Dittmar received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Geneva College, a Master of Education in Social Science from Slippery Rock University, and a Doctorate in Foundations of Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Dittmar is the author of the book, Against All Odds: The Story of Waynesburg's Remarkable Transformation, published in 2010.
“Servant Leadership in Hard Times” Tom Green, Mary Miller
This workshop will share the insights gained from applying servant leadership principles in hard times—the shutdown of a Delphi plant in Dayton, Ohio, that manufactured 41 brake assembly product lines. The shutdown, which took place from 2006 to 2008, resulted in the loss of 1,550 jobs. The interactive session will focus on the practical benefits of developing people, and will highlight the “Plan for Every Person” that yielded extraordinary results in safety, the timeliness of deliveries, a low defect rate, and high profitability during the shutdown period. Tom Green was the Plan Manager and Mary Miller was Human Resources Manager during the two-year period of the shutdown. Mary is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources through the Society of Human Resource Management. After 31 years with General Motors Corporation and Delphi Corporation, Mary retired and now operates her own professional coaching and speaking company. She earned a Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and a Master of Science in Industrial Relations from the Krannert School of Business at Purdue University. Tom Green retired after working 36 years for General Motors Corporation and Delphi Corporation. He graduated in 1972 from The Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering, and later earned a J.D. from the University of Akron Law School. During his career he served as a Delphi Plant Manager at five different facilities in the U.S. and Canada.
“Making your Vision a Reality: Launch a Successful Social Service Program” Alicia La Hoz, Nadia Persun
This workshop is for people whose goal is to develop, implement and sustain a successful social service program in their community. The workshop will use as an example a start-up program that has grown successfully over the years. The example is the Family Bridges, a non-profit organization that provides education and support services that help build healthy families, especially among minorities and low-income communities. During the past five years Family Bridges has worked with 500 organizations in six counties in Illinois, serving over 40,000 individuals. Family Bridges was founded by Dr. Alicia LaHoz and Dr. Nadia Persun. Dr. Persun is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist practicing at Meier Clinic in Wheaton, Illinois. Her clinical expertise includes adolescent issues, treatment of anxiety, marriage and family therapy. Dr. Persun obtained her doctorate at the University of Chicago. She is a Managing Partner of Family Bridges. Dr. Alicia La Hoz is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Director of Family Bridges, Chicagoland Healthy Marriage Initiative at Meier Clinics Foundation. She has worked with other key leaders in developing and coordinating the Chicago Alliance for Latino Marriages (CALMA), offering multiple preventative marriage and relationship programs for the Latino community.
“Servant Leadership at Canon IV” Jerry Jones
This workshop will address the ways in which company values can support ethical business decisions. Real-life business situations with moral dilemmas will be described, as well as the ways in which company leaders can address moral issues by relying on established company values. Jerry Jones is President and CEO of Cannon IV, Inc., a leading independent Managed Print Service (MPS) provider and reseller of imaging and printing solutions, based in Indianapolis. Since 2002, Cannon IV has offered managed print services programs nationally to all end-user markets – commercial and public sectors. Jerry serves on the boards of Marian University, Scecina Memorial High School, the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, and the Hewlett Packard Advisory Counsel.
“Our Experience Teaching Servant Leadership in the Former Soviet Union” Daniel Ballast
This workshop will describe the experience of teaching servant leadership at universities in the former Soviet Union over the past six years through the International Servant Leadership Program sponsored by Co-Serve International. The presentation will include numerous examples, particularly from the Republic of Kazakhstan and Ukraine. It will describe the development of a two‐year training program that helps to move university students and teachers from the understanding of servant leadership theory to actually practicing it in their local communities; utilizing a “Mentor Program” to connect American‐based servant leaders with students and teachers in the former Soviet Union over the internet; the operation of a “Servant Leadership Academy” in Oregon to show students and teachers from the former Soviet Union real‐life examples of servant leaders in America; and success stories of students and teachers who are now living as servant leaders in the former Soviet Union. Dr. Daniel Ballast is the president of Co‐Serve International, a faith‐based, non‐profit organization with the mission to model and cultivate servant leadership communities around the world. Co‐Serve International currently has programs in the United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Afghanistan, India and the Philippines. Dr. Ballast is the author of the booklet, “Building Servant Leadership Communities: A Discussion Guide for Small Groups.” Prior to joining Co-Serve, Dr. Ballast worked for twelve years as the vice‐president of the Kazakh‐American Free University in Kazakhstan.
Personal Development
“Team Intelligence: Using Hands on Learning” Ann McGee-Cooper, Duane Trammell, Luis Duran-Aparicio
In this session, participants will experience a learning module based on servant leadership and team intelligence. Participants will see firsthand how individual performance can be improved by using the experiences, knowledge, and perspectives of those around them. Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper is founding Partner of Ann McGee-Cooper and Associates, Inc. She is a business futurist who has worked with organizations for 40 years in innovation, the politics of change, and servant leadership. She holds degrees from the University of Texas, Southern Methodist University, and a doctorate from Columbia University. Her published works include You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!, which has sold over 100,000 copies and has been translated into four different languages. Duane Trammell is a founding Partner and Executive Vice President of Ann McGee-Cooper and Associates, Inc., managing the operations of the company as well as writing, researching, and developing materials on servant leadership. He earned a BA from Dallas Baptist University and an M.Ed in Gifted Education and Supervision. Luis Fernando Durán-Aparicio serves as Director of Client Services and Interpretation for AMCA, Inc. He has pursued advanced studies at Southwestern College, N.C. and the Universidad La Salle in Mexico City.
"Ethical Decision-Making for the Common Good” Richard Kyte, Tom Thibodeau
All people face ethical decisions on a daily basis. But leaders have to make ethical decisions that have significant effects on others—employees, investors, customers, and the public. This workshop will present participants with a model for ethical decision-making called the “Four Way Method.” Participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups, applying the Four Way Method to cases in order to gain practical experience of reaching consensus in difficult situations. 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 An Ethical Life: a Practical Guide to Moral Reasoning, forthcoming from Anselm Academic Press in September 2012. Tom Thibodeau is Director of the Masters Program in Servant Leadership and Distinguished Professor of Servant Leadership at Viterbo University. He is a founder of Place of Grace, a Catholic Worker house in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he cooks meals every Thursday evening.
“The Wisdom of Servant Leadership” Isabel Lopez
This workshop will discuss the wisdom of Robert Greenleaf’s core concepts, found in his first two major essays, “The Servant as Leader,” which launched the modern servant leadership movement in 1970, and “The Institution as Servant,” which he published in 1972. The workshop will explore Greenleaf’s core message as it relates to individuals, organizations, and communities. Isabel Lopez is president of Lopez Leadership Services, specializing in leadership development. During her service of 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 and has published many articles. Her newest publication, The Wisdom of Servant Leadership, will be published by the Greenleaf Center before the conference.
Faith
“Servant Leadership and the Life Cycle of the Church: The Gift of Hope” David Young, Virginia Gilmore, Richard Smith
This workshop will describe the eight stages of the life cycle of the church, with four basic factors that are at work at each stage of growth and decline. The workshop will explain how the principles and practices of servant leadership can be applied at each stage to develop the growth side of the life cycle and offset factors that lead to decline. Each participant will be invited to discern three strengths within themselves and their congregations, and how with a servant heart they can enter the next stage of growth in their own story. Dr. David S. Young leads a church renewal initiative known as Springs of Living Water with clusters of churches which support one another in the renewal process. For over a decade he has chaired the Spiritual Renewal Team of the Atlantic Northeast District of the Church of the Brethren and is on the board of the Lighthouse Vocational Services, a sheltered workshop in New Holland, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Servant Leadership for Church Renewal, Springs of Living Water, and The Gift of Dialogue. Virginia Gilmore is founder and board chair for the Sophia Foundation in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The Foundation provides education for community leaders to support its vision of “Creating Caring Community” through the principles of servant leadership. Richard Smith is an organizational development specialist. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and has a graduate degree in Family Therapy from Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. Currently, Richard is an adjunct faculty member and/or associate of the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina, the Physician Leadership College at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, the Greenleaf Centre Asia in Singapore, the Robert K. Greenleaf Center in Indianapolis, and The Peace Learning Center in Indianapolis.
“Reason, Faith, Service: Developing Servant-Leaders at the Catholic University of America” Ryan-Allen McKinney
This workshop will explain the process by which The Catholic University of America created The Cardinal Leadership Discovery, a holistic approach to student leadership education that connects servant leadership concepts with the institution’s identity and mission. The workshop will discuss the process of identifying leadership roles, exploring student leadership through the Heart, Head, Hands, and Habits model, utilizing Jesus Christ as a leadership role model, and strengthening communities within a university setting through servant leadership. Participants will also be provided with a description of the various initiatives of The Cardinal Leadership Discovery that are designed to provide opportunities for students to engage in the university community by exploring leadership concepts at different stages of their personal development. Ryan-Allen McKinney currently serves as the Associate Director of Campus Activities at The Catholic University of America. Prior to working in student affairs, Ryan taught middle and high school choral music in upstate New York. Ryan received his M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration and College Student Personnel from Kent State University and a B.M. in Music Education from The University of Hartford.
