John Sullivan BA,MA,CQM

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John Sullivan Quick Facts

Main Areas: Leadership training, coaching, consulting
Best Sellers: ServantFirst! Leadership for the New Millennium, Seminars in Servant Leadership
Career Focus: Author, Teacher, Speaker

John Sullivan is the director of ServantLeader Ministries whose mission is to educate, encourage and equip leaders in all walks of life who desire to serve rather than be served.

He has had a wide variety of career experiences. He has served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, a squadron and air station commander, senior staff officer, consultant, quality examiner, athletics director, professor, and conference commissioner. He is widely acclaimed as an authority on servant leadership as an author, a teacher and a practitioner. His book, Servant First! Leadership for the New Millennium, develops a practical leadership model based on a careful study of the teaching and practice of Jesus of Nazareth.

A highly decorated Vietnam veteran, prior to entering academia he served for 28 years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a helicopter gunship pilot, fighter pilot, squadron commander, senior staff officer, base commander, and professor, retiring as a colonel. As a senior staff officer in the Pentagon, he was Program Coordinator for what was then the Department of the Navy's largest development and acquisition program, the F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. While he was the Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, SC, the base was selected in worldwide competition as the best installation in the Marine Corps and received the prestigious Commander-in-Chief’s Award for Installation Excellence.

He was the Course Director of Policy Making and Implementation within the National Security Decision Making Department and Professor of Management at the Naval War College, Newport, RI. He taught in the graduate program primarily in leadership education. He authored a number of papers, case studies, and articles including "Policy Implementation: Leadership in Large and Complex Organizations," published by the Naval War College Press (1994).

An American Society for Quality Certified Quality Manager, he was a founder of the Rhode Island Area Coalition for Excellence (RACE), helped design its State quality award, and was its first lead examiner.

Following his military career, Sullivan served for nine years as an associate professor of business at Montreat College, Montreat, NC. His teaching focus was in the disciplines of leadership and management.

He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, Webster University and the Naval War College.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from John Sullivan

Are you satisfied with your leadership abilities? Are you achieving the results you expected? How can you motivate, inspire and encourage people to be more efficient, effective and creative? If you are in business, athletic administration, or full-time Christian ministry are you realizing your full potential? Are your followers realizing theirs?

In the new millennium the old command and control style of leadership will not get you to where you want to be. A new form of leadership is required; a style that will unleash the creativity of people working together to achieve common goals.

Seminars in Servant Leadership will introduce you to a unique style of leadership that is modeled on the approach of Him who said He came to serve, not to be served. This upside down leadership style puts the needs of followers above the needs of the leader, promotes teamwork, individual dignity and worth, and results in a synergy of purpose unachievable with the old leadership models.

Getting Started With John Sullivan

For more information on seminars, coaching or consulting services, or to purchase any of our products, please visit our website at http://www.servantleaderministries.org.