Startup Folsom, in partnership with Granite City Coworking is hosting this workshop on Servant Leadership. Dick Gourley, Executive Director of Sol Duc Leadership, will conduct an overview on servant leadership and how it can benefit startup founders.
Servant leadership results from behaviors and practices that primarily emphasize the well-being of those being served. It is a philosophy and practice that benefits the health of an organization and the customers it serves, by focusing on serving their highest priority needs to ensure their continued development to achieve maximum performance. In the case of customers, it ensures their needs have been accurately defined and that the customer-service model focuses on filling those needs and meeting the commitment of the brand promise.
About the Speaker
Dick Gourley is the Founder and Executive Director of Sol Duc Leadership, a global online leadership community committed to enabling a new generation of inspired servant leaders! He is recognized as a servant leadership thought leader and is uniquely qualified to share the value that servant leadership may provide to leaders, entrepreneurs, startups, emerging businesses, nonprofit organizations, LOBs, and mature enterprise organizations.
Dick is a graduate of West Point and served in NATO for four years during the Cold War. After he left the Army, he joined IBM and initially worked on CAD/CAM development for the B-2 wing design as a member of the Boeing Team. After moving with IBM to San Francisco and Los Angeles, he became Branch Manager for IBM’s Silicon Valley Branch in 1991. He left IBM in 1994 and helped lead the re-launch of Oracle’s ERP business in Asia Pacific and Europe. He led Adaptec to $1B in revenue in 1998 as Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Sales, and led marketing & sales at Talk City, an Internet Services provider in 2000. At that point, he chose to become a management and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley, with technology companies and raw startups. In parallel, he volunteered at 35 nonprofits during his business career. Today, he is a volunteer in the Greater Sacramento Startup Community.