ANNOUNCEMENT: Center for Serving Leadership is renamed to World Serving Leaders.

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Empowering leaders to serve the world

Our Culture

At the starting line for our commitment to serving leadership must be this thought: We are responsible, as stewards of our time, treasure and talent, to bring about great results for the flourishment of the world. It is, first and foremost, a realization that we are responsible to produce good value in the world. Since we serve customers who produce true value in the world, we should begin our conversations about serving leadership with the premise that we are responsible to dare – and achieve – great things! This is our great purpose.

What We Believe

Today, there is a growing movement towards Serving Leadership that was not discernable 50 years ago. Organizations around the globe are discovering the transforming impact of this model that views a leader’s work as more about serving and empowering others rather than being served. The reason great leaders serve is that they understand that this is the path to great contribution and great results.

What Sets Us Apart

Extraordinary leaders across the world have something in common. They motivate and align their teams to achieve great results by practicing specific behaviors and disciplines. We call these behaviors The Five Actions of Serving LeadershipTM. These actions are simple, easy to learn and answer the leadership question, "What do I do next?"
Results
In the final moment of truth, when all is considered, the right results are all that matter. We discover what improvements our clients pursue. We quantify these improvements into goals so that, together, we measurably advance and track the results that our clients seek to achieve.
Heart
We are fully committed to working with people and delivering meaningful results for them, their organizations, and their communities. Our focus on human well-being is rooted in World Serving Leaders’s core philosophy, insights, and experience. We uphold a practical truth: Serving Leadership generates sustainable, positive outcomes— it trains leaders to prioritize the well-being of people.
Transformation
We are a “change agent” bringing transformation everywhere we go because of our vision of a thriving world: A thriving world is an innovating world, positively changing, because of dynamic organizations led by right-thinking leadership trained as Serving Leaders.
Relationships
Serving leadership builds a community of trust in which we value each other through honesty and accountability, while caring for and appreciating our team members, partners, and clients. We work to earn the long-term trust and full engagement of the constituencies we serve around the world.
The World Serving Leaders
Journey
2011
  • Center for Serving Leadership was founded by John Stahl-Wert.
2015
  • Center for Serving Leadership was sold to Newton Consulting.
2019
  • John and Milonica Stahl-Wert reacquired the Company from Newton and started to expand to a scalable and international business.
2021
  • Singapore Office was incorporated.
  • Center for Serving Leadership successfully trained our 5,000th Leader.
2024
  • Africa office was incorporated in Nairobi.
2025
  • Company was rebranded to World Serving Leaders.