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Servant Leadership Certificate

Now offered live online, the Servant Leadership Certificate at UW–Madison is one of the few programs of its kind, helping leaders and aspiring leaders practice this highly effective and unique style of leadership.


Is this program right for you?

The Servant Leadership Certificate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is designed for those who aspire to lead by serving others. It encourages you to take an other-focused approach to your work in business, health care, human services, nonprofits, faith-based groups or other organizations.

This certificate program will enhance your own self-development and increase your skills to create an empowered culture, encourage accountability and unlock the potential of your team and others.

Is this program right for you?

The Servant Leadership Certificate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is designed for those who aspire to lead by serving others. It encourages you to take an other-focused approach to your work in business, health care, human services, nonprofits, faith-based groups or other organizations.

This certificate program will enhance your own self-development and increase your skills to create an empowered culture, encourage accountability and unlock the potential of your team and others.

Registration information

What you will learn

  • Gain a fundamental understanding of the unique approach of servant leadership as a leadership style.
  • Explore the advantages, challenges and paradoxes inherent in adopting a servant leadership approach.
  • Examine and refine personal leadership values using self-reflection through focused dialogue, journal writing and other methods in order to develop personal leadership values and articulate them to others.
  • Analyze servant leadership principles, determine how those principles can be applied, and identify areas for further personal development.
  • Review specific examples of organizations that have operationalized servant leader principles to gain application insights and inspiration.
  • Explore how servant-led organizations can impact community, society and systems historically and in a contemporary context.

How you'll learn

The class is taught in a highly participatory live online format by a series of experienced leadership development professionals, staff from UW–Madison’s Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies and guest speakers from the profit and nonprofit sectors.

Sample curriculum

Required courses

  • Session 1: Servant Leadership Foundations
  • Session 2: Personal and Organizational Challenges of Servant Leadership
  • Session 3: Serving Customers/Clients/Citizens
  • Session 4: Servant Leadership at the Team and Organizational Level
  • Session 5: Connecting Servant Leadership to Community and the World

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