Servant Leadership: Leading with Humanity

1. Leading with Humanity: Demonstrating That People Matter in Leadership
   • Develop a deeper level of self-awareness to recognize how your leadership behaviors impact those around you.
   • Identify gaps between your leadership intentions and the way your team experiences your leadership.
   • Explore practical strategies to create a workplace culture that prioritizes trust, empathy, and empowerment while still driving performance.
   • Engage in real-world applications of servant leadership through case studies, self-assessments, and peer discussions to refine leadership approaches.   
2. Navigating Ethical Leadership: Balancing Tradeoffs and Communicating Values
   • Adopt an analytical framework to assess the tradeoffs involved in leadership decisions, understanding their short- and long-term implications on people and the organization.
   • Explore ethical dilemmas in leadership—does the end justify the means? How do we ensure decisions align with our values while achieving business goals?
   • Learn how to articulate and model an ethical leadership stance that resonates with employees, stakeholders, and the public.
   • Develop strategies for transparency and accountability, ensuring that leadership decisions are just, fair, and sustainable for long-term success.
   • Strengthen communication skills to clearly convey your leadership philosophy, inspiring confidence and trust across the organization.
3. Leading with Humanity in a Digital-First World: Maintaining Connection in an AI-Driven Age
   • Explore how AI and digital tools can enhance rather than replace human connection, allowing leaders to focus on meaningful interactions that drive engagement and trust.
   • Examine the role of AI as a facilitator, not a replacement, ensuring that technology serves human flourishing—helping leaders and employees do more of what matters in their roles.
   • Understand the concept of “human-in-the-loop” leadership—where AI enhances decision-making, but ethical oversight, empathy, and strategic thinking remain distinctly human.
   • Develop strategies to balance efficiency with empathy, ensuring digital transformation aligns with organizational values while keeping people at the center of innovation.

• Increase self-awareness regarding leadership behaviors and the impact these behaviors have on team experience, enabling you to close the gap between your leadership intentions and your team's reality. This will lead to the development of workplace cultures rooted in trust, empathy and empowerment.
• Adopt an analytical framework to assess complex trade-offs in leadership decisions, balancing short-term goals with long-term organizational and human implications. You will be able to clearly articulate, model and communicate an ethical leadership stance that ensures decisions are transparent, accountable and aligned with core values.
• Strengthen communication skills to effectively convey your leadership philosophy and decision rationale, thereby inspiring confidence and building deeper trust with employees, stakeholders and the public across all organizational levels.
• Strategically leverage AI and digital tools as facilitators to enhance human connection and focus on meaningful interactions, ensuring a "human-in-the-loop" leadership approach that balances efficiency with empathy and keeps people at the center of digital transformation.
• Develop your best ideas with collaborative input and without undue attachment to their execution.
• Lead your team through stressful projects while remaining thoughtful, empathetic and inclusive.
• Let go of control and allow others to do their jobs more effectively and happily.

This program is designed for leaders and practicing senior managers who translate corporate strategy into operational performance among private and public companies, not-for-profits, NGOs and educational and health systems.

In order to be awarded full credit hours, you must be present for the entirety of the program.

UVA Darden Executive Education offers continuing education credits as part of our commitment to encourage lifelong learning. 

• Instructional Delivery: Group Live
• CPE Credits: 32.0
• Field of Study: Personal Development
• Program Level: Basic

Advanced preparation includes case study and book excerpt readings. The selected case studies and books will be sent prior to the program for all participants to read and prepare for discussion on the first day of the course.

Refund/Cancelation/Concern Resolution Policy:

All cancellations and transfers must be received in writing. Submit your request via email to Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu with the name of the program, followed by "cancellation" or "transfer" in the subject line. Cancellation or transfer fees may apply. Visit our Registration & FAQ page for full details on transfers and cancellations. 

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, please contact us at 1-434-924-3000 or Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu to resolve your issue.

UVA Darden School Foundation - Executive Education is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Concerns regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

Location

UVA Darden DC Metro
1100 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia

Materials and some meals are included in your program fee.

Lodging

Accommodations are not included in the program fee and should be arranged by the participant. Recommended accommodations include:

Hilton Arlington Rosslyn The Key
1900 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22209
Tel: +1 703-952-1900

Hyatt Centric Arlington
1325 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia, 22209
Tel: +1-703-525-1234

Le Méridien Arlington
1121 North 19th Street, Arlington, VA 22209
Telephone: +1-703-351-9170