12. Shan Ray Ferch, Ph.D. - Professor of Leadership & Forgiveness Studies, Gonzaga University

03/11/21 • 68 min

This episode is a conversation with Shann Ray Ferch. I found this to be a conversation filled with kindness and healing. Dr. Ferch explores balancing love and power in healthy ways, countering inappropriate ambition and power drive, and more healthy ways of relating to and being with one another in basketball, and in our families and communities.
Dr. Shann Ferch is a Professor of Leadership & Forgiveness Studies with the internationally renowned PhD program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. Dr. Ferch has served as a visiting scholar in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, is the editor of the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Ferch is also an award-winning author of poetry, prose, and leadership and political theory. His works include Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity: Servant-Leadership as a Way of Life, American Copper, and American Masculine. Dr. Ferch played college basketball at Montana State University and Pepperdine University, and professional basketball in the German Bundesliga, one of Europe’s top professional leagues.
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Further Reading:

Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
All About Love by Bell Hooks
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf
The Servant Leader by James Autry
"The Greatest Work of Art is to Love Someone" - Shann Ferch's TED Talk

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Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
All About Love by Bell Hooks
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf
The Servant Leader by James Autry
"The Greatest Work of Art is to Love Someone" - Shann Ferch's TED Talk

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-gierlach/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamgierlach
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11. Brent Scott - Virginia Commonwealth

This episode is a conversation with Brent Scott. I found this to be a conversation filled with gratitude. Coach Scott expresses immense gratitude for the individuals who served him along his path, and highlights his journey of helping others move forward as a way of honoring those who served him. Along the way, he highlights the role of setbacks in beginning the inner journey of servant-leadership, the power of the “softer side,” and using one’s gifts to help others believe in themselves.
Brent Scott is an Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Virginia Commonwealth University, otherwise known as VCU. Coach Scott is currently in his fourth season with the Rams, and his tenure features an at-large NCAA tournament berth. Coach Scott is a 14-year college coaching veteran, and prior to his time at VCU, Coach Scott also previously served as an assistant coach at LSU, TCU, and Rice University. Coach Scott also played basketball professionally for 14 seasons across First Division-level European teams, and in the NBA.
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13. On Emotional Intelligence & Servant-Leadership

This episode is a solo episode, exploring the connection of Emotional Intelligence and Servant-Leadership.
In this episode, we break down some popular misconceptions of emotional intelligence, move towards deeper understandings of the term, and explore how fostering greater emotional intelligence might allow us to more greatly fulfill the Best Test of Servant-Leadership.
Robert Greenleaf’s Best Test of Servant-Leadership asks: “Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit, or at least not be further deprived?”
I hope you leave today’s episode with some additional characteristics of what servant-leadership might look like, and how those characteristics might be actualized out in the world and developed through fostering greater emotional intelligence.
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