Ep. #41 Building a Mindset of Servant Leadership - Dr. Maria Pressentin

Jean is joined by Dr. Maria Pressentin

There’s more to servant leadership than empowerment. It’s about enablement. Join Maria as she shares her research and work in servant leadership. Learn the three steps of building trust as a servant leader and how you can contribute effectively during pressure.  

Jean and Maria discuss: 

• Research in servant leadership - how do we define a servant leader 
• To what extent servant leadership is implemented in the workplace
• How do we lead in pressured situations that is mindful and aligned with our own leadership value

Meet Dr. Maria Pressentin

Maria works by helping individuals and teams design their best engagement strategies, and she consults organizations on their leadership and talent development needs. She focuses on rebuilding a road of trust, reducing attrition, and removing M&A integration roadblocks. All of this resulting in incremental cost reduction during critical times, such as culture change, restructuring, shift of business direction, and downsizing. 

She has also helped organizations build corporate universities and change cultures from a bottom up approach. Maria has received many awards, including being awarded as top 100 Best Global Coaching and Leadership Professional by the global HRD Congress. She was awarded Iconic Woman for Creating a Better World for All by the Women Economic Forum and many other awards in the scientific research field of leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. And her most recent publication is entitled Key Factors and Use Cases of Servant Leadership Driving Organizational Performance. 

Book Recommendation - 
Key factors and Use Cases of Servant Leadership Driving Organizational Performance by Maria Pressentin. 

https://www.igi-global.com/book/key-factors-use-cases-servant/273601

Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust by Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley: 

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Truths-Leadership-Servant-Leader/dp/1523000627

Connect with Maria here:

https://www.leadershipscientific.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariapressentin-servant-leadership-expert/

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