Acknowledgments

As we celebrate an important anniversary of The Serving Leader, we are grateful for the wonderful experiences we’ve had working with Serving Leader clients and friends. Because of you, we see evidence of the effectiveness and excellence of Serving Leadership, and great examples are available of the mind-set, philosophy, and business practices of a Serving Leader.

Many thanks to Berrett-Koehler Publishers, and especially our editor, Anna Leinberger, as well as the entire team of dedicated and passionate professionals in marketing, administration, sales, accounting, and production who served us so well.

Ken Jennings’s Acknowledgments

A special thanks to my colleagues at Third River Partners—Heather Hyde, John Porcari, and all our colleagues—I have been privileged and blessed to serve with you. To my talented coauthor, John Stahl-Wert, and to dear friends Joe Patrnchak, Fr. Bill Brown, Don Russell, Doug Lind, Matt Pritchard, Elizabeth Moraff Pritchard, BJ Woodworth, Bob Buford, and Ken Blanchard—you are all steadily increasing the hearts and hands of the Serving Leaders among us. To those who minister at Lead Like Jesus, Coalition for Christian Outreach, and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, I’m grateful for who you are and the work you do. To our children, David, Matt, Sara, and Conor, may you all live your lives as Serving Leaders, making a difference in the lives of others. Many thanks!

John Stahl-Wert’s Acknowledgments

Thanks to colleagues at the Center for Serving Leadership—Rick Newton, Jim Dittmar, John Chapman, Josh Newton, and Brad Root—for fleshing out our vision “to catalyze a tipping point in leadership toward serving.” Special thanks to Ken Jennings and Heather Hyde for their partnership in bringing this resource to the world! Serving Leadership thrives in public only when it’s real in private. Love and admiration to my companion, Milonica—thirty-five years with you is only the beginning!—and to my beloved daughters, Emma Stahl-Wert and Clara Drewery, beloved son, Brian Nicholas Drewery, and handsome grandson, Clarence William Drewery; Serving you is my joy.