Leadership as Service: Constructing Authenticity

Abstract

This chapter provides personal – co-autoethnographic – reflections on the journey of authenticity development and servant leadership through the lens of the relational proximity framework. The authors look back on their combined 90 years of experience working in three areas: the creation of jobs and livelihoods; peace and reconciliation; and the environment and the development of a sustainable economy. Lefroy and Woollcombe maintain that young people should be introduced to the principles of servant leadership early and throughout their education as part of their empowerment and confidence-building processes and suggest three avenues for research: servant leadership in practice, innovative curriculum development and work relationship measurement.

Citation

Lefroy, J. and Woollcombe, D. (2023), "Leadership as Service: Constructing Authenticity", Turcan, R.V., Reilly, J.E., Jørgensen, K.M., Taran, Y. and Bujac, A.I. (Ed.) The Emerald Handbook of Authentic Leadership, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 301-314. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-013-920231013