Leadership through service is a theme throughout my life and the counseling profession. I model my leadership style in the way articulated by Robert Greenleaf in his seminal essay The Servant As Leader (1970). I strive to cultivate awareness of the needs for individuals and communities with whom I have contact by listening to understand before speaking to be understood and by mindfully training to recognize injustice and need, tolerate discomfort, and work as necessary to ease suffering and promote wellbeing. I measure my effectiveness as a leader not by positions held, but by the degree to which those in my care are developing. Have they “become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, and more likely themselves to be servants” (Greenleaf, 1970)? My leadership influences prior to beginning my doctoral journey were my great grandfather, my grandmother, my mother, my primary residency supervisor, Gretchen Wilhelm, Buddhist author Pema Chödrön, and Jesus Christ. As I have begun my doctoral journey, I have been introduced to more heroes of the profession and look forward to learning from the legacies of Jane Myers, Courtland Lee, Don Locke, and Mary Thomas Burke, among others. You can read more about my leadership philosophy development and future intentions below:
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