The Servant Leadership Model

The servant-leader is servant first…It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, per- haps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions. For such it will be a later choice to serve – after leadership is established. The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.

The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? and, what is the effect on the least privileged in society; will they benefit, or, at least, not be further deprived?

- Robert Greenleaf, “The servant as leader.”

Staff

	Aimee Khuu Program Director aimee.khuu@esperanzaint.org
	Jennifer Mullis Accountant Jennifer.Mullis@esperanzaint.org

Board of Directors

Cliff Bronson	Ted Brown	Gene Helsel
Marcel Tam	Gilda Vilaplana	Colleen Settles