Servant Leadership: Leading with Humanity

Develop the essential leadership skills necessary to lead with and through your team in a changing world.

Counts toward the Certificate in Leadership & Management
Counts toward the Management Development Certificate

Upcoming Dates

Program Dates

Format

Time Commitment

Program Fee

5-9 May 2025

In-Person, Charlottesville, VA

5 days

$9,950.00

4-8 May 2026

In-Person, Charlottesville, VA

5 days

$10,500.00

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Overview

Ensure sustainable success by leading through your team, supporting their development and engaging with people at a deeper level. In this program, we take a different approach to leadership, one which puts the idea of the leader as servant as central, and see how this enables you to grow as a leader and create better results for your organization.

This unique program features diagnostic assessments, coaching sessions and leadership reflections.

Intended For

Team Leader, Senior Management, Executive

Focus

Leadership

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Refine your natural management inclinations with individual coaching and discover how empathy, communication and encouragement can drive your team in extraordinary new directions.

Learn what it means to practice leadership as a servant and the power it creates within organizations
Become more aware of your leadership skills, how you affect others and complete diagnostics that help you better understand your impact as a leader
Understand how servant leadership can be adapted to different organizational settings and contexts to see how it can drive improved results
Deepen your knowledge of human behavior, including our capacity to bring out the best in people as well as our darker side, and how you can lead more responsibly
Expand your capacity to think creatively and develop new insights essential for navigating through challenging times

Darden's New Home for Lifelong Learning

The Forum Hotel at the UVA Darden School of Business in Charlottesville is now open! We’re excited to welcome our EELL participants to learn and stay with us in this dynamic new meeting place.

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Impact & Outcomes
Cultivate an environment of transparency around organizational strategy and performance to encourage support for and dedication to organizational goals

Develop your best ideas with collaborative input and without undue attachment to their execution

Move beyond compensatory standards of risk and reward by cultivating an atmosphere of support and respect

Lead your team through stressful projects while remaining thoughtful, empathetic and inclusive

Let go of control and allow others to do their jobs more effectively and happily
Participant Profile

This program is designed for leaders and practicing senior managers who translate corporate strategy into operational performance among private and public companies, not-for-profits, NGOs and educational and health systems.

In order to be awarded full credit hours, you must be present for the entirety of the program.
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Sponsorship
UVA Darden Executive Education offers continuing education credits as part of our commitment to encourage lifelong learning.

Instructional Delivery: Group Live

CPE Credits: 32.0

Field of Study: Personal Development

Program Level: Beginner

Advanced preparation includes case study and book excerpt readings. The selected case studies and books will be sent prior to the program for all participants to read and prepare for discussion on the first day of the course.

Refund/Cancelation/Concern Resolution Policy:

All cancellations and transfers must be received in writing. Submit your request via email to Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu with the name of the program, followed by "cancellation" or "transfer" in the subject line. Cancellation or transfer fees may apply. Visit our Registration & FAQ page for full details on transfers and cancellations.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, please contact us at 1-434-924-3000 or Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu to resolve your issue.

UVA Darden School Foundation - Executive Education is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Concerns regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
Location & Accommodations

Location

Darden School of Business
100 Darden Blvd.
Charlottesville, Virginia

Materials and some meals are also included in your program fee.

Accommodations

Lodging will be provided at our new on-Grounds hotel for participants of this program as part of your program fee. If you register within 30 days of the program start date, accommodations at The Forum Hotel cannot be guaranteed. Alternate lodging would be provided. We encourage you to register early to reserve your spot!

The Forum Hotel
Kimpton Charlottesville
UVA DARDEN
540 Massie Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Enjoy access to all the hotel’s perks during your stay, including morning coffee and tea service, on-site fitness center, Birch & Bloom steakhouse, The Good Sport craft beer bar and large outdoor terrace.

Anchored by the beautiful Tahija Arboretum and LaCross Botanical Gardens with outdoor learning and reflection spaces, as well as state-of-the-art indoor classroom and event spaces, The Forum Hotel is the new home for Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programming.

Cultivate an environment of transparency around organizational strategy and performance to encourage support for and dedication to organizational goals
Develop your best ideas with collaborative input and without undue attachment to their execution
Move beyond compensatory standards of risk and reward by cultivating an atmosphere of support and respect
Lead your team through stressful projects while remaining thoughtful, empathetic and inclusive
Let go of control and allow others to do their jobs more effectively and happily

This program is designed for leaders and practicing senior managers who translate corporate strategy into operational performance among private and public companies, not-for-profits, NGOs and educational and health systems.

In order to be awarded full credit hours, you must be present for the entirety of the program.

UVA Darden Executive Education offers continuing education credits as part of our commitment to encourage lifelong learning.

Instructional Delivery: Group Live
CPE Credits: 32.0
Field of Study: Personal Development
Program Level: Beginner

Advanced preparation includes case study and book excerpt readings. The selected case studies and books will be sent prior to the program for all participants to read and prepare for discussion on the first day of the course.

Refund/Cancelation/Concern Resolution Policy:

All cancellations and transfers must be received in writing. Submit your request via email to Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu with the name of the program, followed by "cancellation" or "transfer" in the subject line. Cancellation or transfer fees may apply. Visit our Registration & FAQ page for full details on transfers and cancellations.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, please contact us at 1-434-924-3000 or Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu to resolve your issue.

UVA Darden School Foundation - Executive Education is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Concerns regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

Location

Darden School of Business
100 Darden Blvd.
Charlottesville, Virginia

Materials and some meals are also included in your program fee.

Accommodations

The Forum Hotel Kimpton Arboretum & Gardens

Lodging will be provided at our new on-Grounds hotel for participants of this program as part of your program fee. If you register within 30 days of the program start date, accommodations at The Forum Hotel cannot be guaranteed. Alternate lodging would be provided. We encourage you to register early to reserve your spot!

The Forum Hotel
Kimpton Charlottesville
UVA DARDEN
540 Massie Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Enjoy access to all the hotel’s perks during your stay, including morning coffee and tea service, on-site fitness center, Birch & Bloom steakhouse, The Good Sport craft beer bar and large outdoor terrace.

Anchored by the beautiful Tahija Arboretum and LaCross Botanical Gardens with outdoor learning and reflection spaces, as well as state-of-the-art indoor classroom and event spaces, The Forum Hotel is the new home for Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programming.

Dr. Bobby Chhabra and Dr. David Diduch from UVA Health System Orthopedic Surgery share insights they gained from attending the Servant Leadership program, and how it has impacted how they work with each other and interact with their teams on a daily bases.

Earn Your Certificate

Servant Leadership: Leading with Humanity counts as one program toward a noncredit Darden Certificate in Leadership & Management. Complete this program and three additional programs within a four-year period to earn your certificate.

Faculty

Laura Morgan Roberts

Frank M. Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration

Laura Morgan Roberts

Frank M. Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration

Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Roberts is an expert in diversity, authenticity and leadership development. Her research and consulting focuses on the science of maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities.

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Roshni Raveendhran

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Roshni Raveendhran

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Raveendhran’s research focuses on the future of work: how technological advancements influence organizational actors and business practices, the integration of novel technologies into the workplace and how organizations can increase the effectiveness of their human resource management practices to address the changing nature of work.

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Brian Moriarty

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Brian Moriarty

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Communication

Brian Moriarty is an Assistant Professor in Communication, and Director of the Institute for Business and Society at the University of Virginia's Darden Business School where he teaches in the full-time MBA program.

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The Servant Leadership program really made the value-based leadership model relevant and actionable.

Pasco Umbriac

Vice President, Clark Construction

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