Ep 12: Future of Our Future is Servant Leadership - Part 1 with Dr. Madana Kumar from UST Global

Dr. Madana Kumar - Servant Leadership Evangelist, a passionate Thought Leader and Strategist on Leadership, and Organisational Learning who speaks at various forums like the NHRD, HR summit, CLO summit, ATD, etc. Currently balancing two roles. one in Corporate as the Vice President and Global Head of L&D at UST Global. Second in Theological Education as Director- Center for Leadership at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration. He has dual Bachelor Degrees, a B.Sc (Physics) and a BE from Indian Institute of Science. He holds an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration and Certificates on Leadership awarded by the Cornell University, USA. For his Doctoral work, Madana studied the application of Servant Leadership in Indian NGOs. Has won multiple awards nationally and internationally

Few questions I ask Dr. Madana Kumar on the Legacy of Servant Leadership and how to unlock the potential of being a servant leader is as follows: Time Stamps: 0:01 to 39:30

1. Why Servant Leadership?
2. What is the concept of Servant Leadership and how it can be practiced
3. To Become a Servant Leader - What are key skills and the responsibility of the servant leadership
4. What are the advantages it can bring to you as a leader?
5. How do we uncap the importance of servant leadership for rising leaders?
6. What are the characteristics of Servant Leader for anyone to resonate…and feel that Wow factor
7. Can you highlight in detail about the acronym VALUE and where Servant Leaders are and need to be different?
8. Is the Servant Leadership Model really relevant to our day to day life? Isn’t it meant for Leaders in the spiritual realm or leaders in the corporate or leaders in NGOs? How about applicability for every individual’s day to day life?
9. How do we convince others about something that we want and look at it as an important element?
10. How would you qualify to be a Servant Leader & how does that one demonstrate?
11. The term Servant Leadership is in itself an Oxymoron. How can Servanthood and Leadership go together?
12. How easy or difficult it is to practice servant leadership?

This is not the end!

Our conversation continues on the relevance of Servant Leadership and practices at UST Global by Dr. Madana Kumar who is driving this mission internally in Part 2 episode.

Authors mentioned in this episode:

• Robert Greenleaf
• Ken Blanchard
• John Kotter

 Connect with Madanakumar @

• LinkedIn

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