A New Beginning: Welcoming Stephen Hayes

Andrea Tristan, Stephen Hayes, and AMCA Team

This week we welcomed Stephen Hayes, our new summer intern, into our Team/family. A Dallas native attending business school at Washington University in St. Louis, Stephen expressed a deep interest in servant leadership and how it can benefit the workplace and the quality of life of those who inhabit it. Stephen is the first second-generation AMCA Partner.  His mother, Mary Chaney Hayes, was one of Ann’s star students at SMU and master teacher in the Experimental Arts Program which Ann founded in 1968.  He reflects so many of his gifted, creative mother’s amazing talents and we are thrilled he has chosen to join us!

So far, he has helped members of our team complete several important projects, such as editing our book Being the Change so it can make the transition to digital print, populating our Facebook timeline to share a bit of AMCA history with our friends and clients, editing interviews with servant leaders and videos so they can be shared on YouTube, and even tending the garden. He also brings with him a new perspective, helping to objectively analyze AMCA and provide opinions and tips to keep us moving forward.

In return for his assistance this summer, we have all been working hard to support him in his areas of growth. Stephen’s goals for his experience at AMCA are:

1. To become familiar with servant leadership and be able to teach it to others.
2. To learn about different management styles, organizations, and which are most effective.
3. To better understand how social media can be used by firms to reap tangible rewards.
4. To differentiate projects and learn which are more viable.
5. To develop a clear understanding of his personality traits and how they mesh with others.
6. To become more socially and environmentally aware through interactions with AMCA and other organizations—both profit and non-profit.

We will do our best to help him grow in each of these goals and challenge him to live and teach servant leadership in his future interactions both in the workplace and his personal life. While he will soon graduate into the often fierce arena of the business world, we hope he will carry his experience with our Team forward and be a transformative force wherever life calls him.