About the Authors
Ken Jennings, PhD
Ken Jennings is a bestselling author, speaker, and active consultant in organizational leadership. With practical and proven approaches, Ken counsels senior leadership teams at many healthcare, technology, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology organizations. He advises healthcare and integrated delivery systems on mission-critical projects while helping them build leadership skills. Ken has most recently worked at the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, Accenture, Fresenius Medical Care, Texas Health Resources, Intermountain Healthcare, and other leading organizations.
The heart of his leadership philosophy is “putting servant leadership to work.” With his partner and wife, Heather Hyde, Ken founded Third River Partners, which provides leadership-development and change-management services while helping leaders commit and find pathways to serving others.
Ken’s other works include Changing Health Care: Creating Tomorrow’s Winning Health Enterprises Today, coauthored with Sharyn B. Materna and Kurt H. Miller, and The Greater Goal: Connecting Purpose and Performance, coauthored with Heather Hyde. He holds a doctorate in organizational behavior from Purdue University, a master of science in management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a bachelor of science in behavioral science from the United States Air Force Academy. Ken lives in Pittsburgh and New York.
To learn more about the work Ken does with Third River Partners, please visit
Dr. John Stahl-Wert
John Stahl-Wert is a bestselling author, internationally recognized speaker, and expert in growing great leaders. He touches leaders’ hearts through his highly praised books, keynote addresses, collaborative workshops, and coaching—equipping great leaders to bring out the very best in their people.
John is president of Newton Institute and director of its Center for Serving Leadership, enabling individual, organizational, and community transformation based on the five actions in The Serving Leader. His passion is cultivating a worldwide community of Serving Leader practitioners.
John coauthored Ten Thousand Horses: How Leaders Harness Raw Potential for Extraordinary Results with Ken Jennings; coauthored The Serving Leader for the People of God with Elizabeth Wourms; authored With: A True Story; and writes an acclaimed weekly blog on Serving Leader principles at www.johnstahlwert.com.
John worked eighteen years for Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, serving as its president and CEO, and was the founder of Serving Ventures, Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience (PULSE), Leadership Foundations Training Institute, the Union Project, and Amachi Pittsburgh. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Milonica, a watercolor artist and iconographer.
To learn more about the work John does with the Center for Serving Leadership, please visit