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In his epic 12th century tale Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, the French poet Chrétien de Troyes puts forth a poetic narrative of a knight that befriends a lion after saving the lion from a [...]

Do you have a young person in your life graduating from High School, College or accepting an advanced degree this or next month? I do. We often search for that perfect gift that conveys our love [...]

It’s hard to deny the presence of trendy coffee shops, new boutique businesses, and soaring housing costs as signs of gentrification for pockets of urban cities historically kept for low income [...]

Of course! The servant-leader is most assuredly human. Why take the time to write about it? When I ask groups to describe servant-leaders in their lives, they speak of leaders who could easily be [...]

Greenleaf wrote that “Leading entails risk or requires a venturesome spirit, or both.”   What does that say to us if we don’t like to take risks or don’t have a [...]

If you weren’t at the conference, imagine this. You’ve been working all week hosting 600 of your colleagues for a huge culture committee event. You committed back in June to come out to speak at [...]

I met John Beede via video conference a few months back as we started planning for the 25th Greenleaf Conference. Both his story and his passion convinced me he needed to open our session in [...]