Servant Leadership Learning: Principles of servant leadership

Servant Leadership Learning Communities®

In 1999, TMCA (then AMCA), wanted to create a learning space for organizations to benchmark best practices in understanding and applying principles of servant leadership.

Two of our long-term Clients, TDIndustries and Southwest Airlines had been recognized on Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list for several years and attributed much of their success to cultures of servant leadership.

In the years that followed, TMCA organized four meetings a year (now three) for organizations to learn new servant leadership skills, learn from other organizations, and dialogue organizational challenges using tools of servant leadership.

In 2008, through shared conversations with the Sophia Foundation in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and later in a TMCA Strategic Planning Session, we realized there was a desire for an SLLC® not limited to the local Dallas/North Texas geography. Through a partnership with the Sophia Foundation and encouragement from the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, the Global VSLLC® was born.

From the inspiration of the successful Dallas SLLC®, in 2016 the Phoenix SLLC® was launched by Deborah Welch. It is our vision that in the future, Servant Leadership Communities will be organized around the world.

Dallas SLLC®

With a handful of friends, the Dallas SLLC® began as a group sharing books, ideas, and practices in servant leadership in Ann McGee-Cooper’s living room. Through the years, the organization grew as friends and colleagues offered their places of business both to host the location and co-present programs. Seventeen Dallas area organizations now participate on different levels of their servant leadership journeys—some like SWA and TD with extensive histories along with young organizations just beginning. In 2016 we launched the Dallas Servant Leadership Learning Community® Symposium, hosted at one of our larger sites—Communities Foundation of Texas. Members hear multiple speakers and dialogue current issues important to the servant leadership movement.

Past participating members include: TDIndustries, Southwest Airlines, Parkland Health and Hospital System, Coppell Police Department, Celebration Restaurant, Tempo Mechanical Services, TexEnergy Solutions, Publishing Concepts, Dallas County Community College District, Communities Foundation of Texas, Bridgeway Capital Management, Lumin Education, Saulsbury Industries, Ferguson Industries, NewWorq LLC, Cliff Watson Consulting LLC, and Trammell McGee-Cooper and Associates.

In 2021, Matthew Kosec Consulting will lead the programming and handle memberships for the Dallas SLLC®.

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Dr. Deborah Welch visited our Dallas SLLC® and has directed our Virtual VSLLC® for many years, but more recently had the vision of starting a Servant Leadership Learning Community® in Phoenix, her current city of residence. She knew there were companies in Phoenix either currently practicing servant leadership or wanting to learn, so the time was right to start a group. She visited with contacts at local companies and the Phoenix SLLC® was born.

Founding companies include: Southwest Airlines, TDIndustries, Pulte Homes, Medtronic, and Freeport McMorRan. They meet three times a year and share best practices, learning servant leadership skills along the way.

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Phoenix SLLC®

Virtual SLLC®

A truly unique leadership program designed to get leaders in touch with what it means to live with a “servant’s” heart.

Limited to 10 carefully chosen servant-leaders through an application process
Includes eight themed 90-minute tele-circles where each person has an opportunity to speak and be deeply heard.

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