Client Success Stories

“The topic covered is very wide ranging; that gives us leaders a fresh perspective of how to serve our people, and also look at our leadership ability and development as well.”

"We have a values-driven reputation that allows us to attract and retain good people. They hear that it’s not all about the money here and they want to work in a place where the goal of building up our people and our team is as important as building a shed. I encourage everyone to make the commitment to join a cohort. Take the plunge. It is well worth it."

“Working with World Serving Leaders empowered me to lead by my core values and build the trust within my team to properly align talent with business objectives, empower staff, ensure a focus on customers, and rapidly grow our capacity.”

“I really appreciate what your whole team has done for us as a company and team at JDM, it has really left a positive influence in my personal and professional life. Each time I have been with John I seem to get a better understanding of the concept of what it means to be a ‘Servant Leader.’”

"I owe my success in leadership to the principles found in John's book."

“My leadership practice was greatly strengthened by the teaching I found in The Serving Leader. I have applied its lessons at the bank as well as in the other areas of my life. I highly recommend this book!”

“Bringing The Serving Leader into Industrial Scientific drove the core disciplines that fuel our success-growing people, raising high standards, and providing a compelling purpose for deeply worthy work.”

“Embrace The Serving Leader! It will change the way you do business. Serving Leaders get obstacles out of the way, help employees do their jobs, help meet employees’ needs, and hold people accountable.”

“The world is in great need of The Serving Leader.”

“The principles found in John’s best-selling book, The Serving Leader, lend exceptional support to leaders seeking transformation in their personal lives and in their organizations.”

“Our organization’s mission centers on serving patients and partners. The lessons shared in The Serving Leader showed our executive team the importance of leading by serving our employees. This was a new orientation for many of us, and it has transformed both how we work together as a leadership team and how we lead our individual teams.”

“As a Serving Leader, we are working through people to achieve the goal. When people do amazing jobs in their respective areas, the end result will be that the organization will have amazing impact on the clients that we serve.”

“Serving Leadership trained our board, executive team, and senior managers and we’re carrying it out to the front line. It was a big commitment, but the results have made it so worthwhile.”

“We recognize a tradition of leadership at Johns Hopkin. ‘We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. The principles of Serving Leadership are strong reflections of this link between our tradition and future vision.”

“When I was looking for a teachable way to transform leadership and culture at the Cleveland Clinic, I chose The Serving Leader. It started a transformation that continues to this day.”

"One of the learnings I took from the Serving Leader Cohort was that there are no well-rounded leaders, but that you can build a well-rounded team. This completely changed my approach to leading a company. It allows me to be honest about my own strengths and weaknesses and bring on team members who have complementary strengths. It has enabled me to build a team that provides far better leadership than I could provide on my own."

“A great investment for your company, getting the right feet in the right saddle has a huge impact on your company and team.”

“Six months into my work with World Serving Leaders we built a new company, Wampler Capitol, run by our daughters. This would not have happened without having met other people in the cohort who are engaging their children and receiving coaching on making room for the next generation’s knowledge, skills, and gifts in the family business."

“World Serving Leaders helped us create a healthy culture, aligning our employees to a single vision, placing people in strength-aligned teams, and implementing accountability to the vision. This alignment improved our quality, our throughput, and our financial success, and allows us to better serve our customers.”

“I’m personally grateful for John Stahl-Wert’s Serving Leader training. It has made a lasting, positive impact on ProVia, and on many other leaders and businesses in our community.”

“World Serving Leaders helped me understand God’s design of me, clarified my life purpose, and helped me get a clearer and simpler articulation of our organization’s vision and values. I also learned to pay better attention to the morale of our staff.”

“We had people representing all levels of our organization on Zoom including eight international locations. World Serving Leaders’s ability to engage all 26 people during the training sessions was extra ordinary! In spite of the organization just having gone through a huge crisis the impact of this work was exponential creating a cohesion of the whole which endures to this day.”

“We have all attended firehose presentations that didn’t lead to actual change. Serving Leader Cohorts provide excellent teaching with critical time provided to focus on specific changes which we were required to put into practice during the month. This enabled me to implement new leadership practices that produced encouragement, support, and growth within CMC’s staff and pastors.”

“In the Serving Leader Cohort I was given practical, simple steps to effectively engage myself and my team in our areas of strength instead of expending significant time and energy on the marginal improvement of our weaknesses. The variety of teaching and group interaction deepened the learning and the pace of the course gave time between sessions to practice new behaviors. This was definitely worth the investment.”

“All the events of 2020—being forced to meet online and stay at home—provided the perfect moment for World Serving Leaders to guide my team to examine and clarify our purpose, mission, and values. We now feel far more ready to face the future than we did going into this season.”

“Defining the core values that I lead from has been so helpful for me and our organization. This exercise alone has smoothed the way for so many more beneficial outcomes in our work environment. But it goes beyond defining. John was helpful personally in navigating the implementation and communication of these core values. I don’t think I could have implemented well without guidance.”

“This has been the greatest investment of resources I have made in years, and I know it’s going to pay dividends in the future. It will make a difference in your life!”

“The Serving Leader is the most practical guide available to implement servant leadership at work.”

"The Serving Leader Cohort helped our team find our true purpose and values which are now a fundamental part of our business. I also learned the value of getting people aligned with their strengths and found that there are people who love to do what I hate...so now I let them do it! I recommend this training to all leaders."

“This training is different than anything we have ever done as a company. We have redirected the ship and are altering our focus. We are asking better questions and have a new definition of “Serving Leaders.” It was a great investment on our part.”

“Because of attending the Serving Leader cohort, I have learned to value and cherish my God-given personality strengths. Prior to the course, I felt detached as if I were floating aimlessly in a former business venture. I began to see how my unique giftings were actually so useful in our family business. Thank you World Serving Leaders team for helping me learn to love myself and have a purpose in business again.”

“I believe the value of joining a cohort is hearing from others and the accountability that arises from the assignments.”

“We have worked hard to establish a culture based on values and The Serving Leader Cohort helped us get these values into the core of who we are. Now every employee knows, recites and lives by our values: Honorable, Excellent, Gritty and Good Natured. And in trade association meetings I hear repeatedly that the difference is noticed!”

“At Jubilee, we had all of our managers and leadership go through Serving Leader In-Company Cohort. This was a fantastic season of growth for our team. The teaching, coursework and time for our team to work together brought us closer as a team and greatly enhanced our leadership abilities in being serving leaders.”

“The cohort gave me tools to make our businesses impactful. Not only did it give me tools, give my employees a sense of purpose and feel valued but it helped me to gain a sense of purpose and clarity of why we do what we do.”

“I made a comment to my wife that the coaching call was worth the price of the entire cohort. I realized that here’s someone who’s not only experienced in coaching and leadership but has been through so many of the same things I was going through.”

“Serving Leadership gave us the tools to embed values that count and make sense to our employees. Through it, we’ve been able to hire more effectively, raise up next generation leaders more intentionally, and create and protect a culture that our people enjoy.”