Learning to Serve
Our understanding of leadership has dramatically changed over the past several decades. Leadership is no longer viewed as what senior managers need to do to get people to follow. Instead, the focus is on what the leader can do to support the team to help them be more successful. This course walks through the ten keys to becoming an effective servant leader who supports and develops the company’s team. In doing so, other contemporary views on leadership are integrated throughout the lessons to offer a comprehensive and current view on what it takes to be an effective leader.
Entrepreneur / Professor / Author
Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the inaugural recipient of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He also was founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont, and led the Center for the first ten years of its operation. He has a Doctorate in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Kentucky. In the late 1980’s, Dr. Cornwall left academics for a nine year “sabbatical” to become the co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Cornwall has received national awards for his work in curriculum development and teaching, and in 2013 he was named the National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He has published ten books and numerous articles on entrepreneurship.
