Meet Pat Falotico of The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership in Downtown

Today we’d like to introduce you to Pat Falotico.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Pat. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
Robert K. Greenleaf founded the nonprofit Greenleaf Center (first called “The Center for Applied Ethics”) in 1964. Not long after, Greenleaf published The Servant as Leader, a landmark essay that coined the phrase “servant-leader” and launched the modern servant leadership movement.

Since its founding, the Greenleaf Center has been a thought-leader in the field of servant leadership and a good steward of Robert Greenleaf’s writings after his death. The Greenleaf Center built an extensive catalog of publications over the years and continues to add new ones each year. Our online bookstore offers these publications and other materials covering the subject of servant leadership.

The Greenleaf Center has hosted 25 international conferences that connect, educate and inspire servant-leaders from around the world. Our annual conference remains the foremost event of its kind. In more recent times, the Greenleaf Center has added online learning, speaking and workshops to its offerings of servant leadership programs.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Over the organization’s 54 history, the road has varied. The biggest opportunities the center has is growing awareness of the impact servant leadership can have on individuals, teams and organizations and making the 1970 essay that started the modern movement of servant leadership relevant for a new generation of young leaders.

Please tell us about The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership.
The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is “to advance the awareness, understanding and practice of servant leadership by individuals and organizations”. We strive to achieve this mission through a variety of programs you will find described here on our website.

In the words of Robert K. Greenleaf, “A better society, one that is more just and more loving, one that provides greater creative opportunity for its people.” Both an ancient philosophy and modern practice, we envision that servant leadership as a movement will continue to enrich the lives of individuals and establish more people-centered institutions as well as strengthen its vital relationships.

We provide a variety of programs that support individuals and organizations on their servant leadership journeys including:

Greenleaf Center Membership – provides access to exclusive content and allows individuals to connect and grow together using an private on-line community. Special discounts to other programs and resources are available.

Publications – one stop shop for Mr. Greenleaf’s writings and supporting materials from other Servant Leadership authors.

Greenleaf Scholars – providing stipends to select researchers to enhance the understanding about servant leadership’s effectiveness.

Greenleaf Academy – Small group learning.

Keynotes and Workshops – Aligning servant leadership with the organization’s mission and values.

Greenleaf’s Best Test® – Allowing leaders and organizations understand how servant leadership best supports the organization’s expected outcomes.

Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
Polishing my grandmother’s silver or cleaning my grandfather’s workshop. This is NOT because I enjoy either chore. I just loved being around those two amazing people. They were wise and loving people. I smile today thinking about how I felt sitting around their kitchen table!

Contact Info:

• Address: 133 Peachtree Street
  Lobby Suite 350
  Atlanta, GA 30303
• Website: greenleaf.org
• Phone: 404-836-0134
• Email: pfalotico@greenleaf.org
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenleafCenter/
• Twitter: @greenleafcenter

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