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Living with Purpose: Recognizing Servant Leadership at HCO
Over the past several years, a group of HCO staff members has the opportunity to attend the Servant Leadership Conference at Viterbo University. This year, five HCO staff members attended: Darin Olson, Kathy Hager, Kathy Henson-Schroeder, Clara Haugo, and Celina Quinn. All five described the conference as a meaningful and powerful experience, sharing that they gained valuable tools and ideas to bring back to their teams. The conference provided an opportunity to learn, reflect, and discover new ways to put servant leadership into practice at HCO. For Kathy Henson-Schroeder, one of the most powerful takeaways from this year’s conference was the reminder that, “Mindset is the foundation; resilience is the result!” Darin Olson also shared a quote that resonated with him: “Servant leadership is a humble form of influence, where the servant leader is focused on motivating and developing followers with the end goal of [...]
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