Robert K. Greenleaf [SEP] date of death
Robert K. Greenleaf
Robert K. Greenleaf (1904–1990) was the founder of the modern Servant leadership movement and the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership.
Greenleaf was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1904. After graduating from Carleton College in Minnesota, he went to work for AT&T, then the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. For the next forty years he researched management, development, and education. All along, he felt a growing suspicion that the power-centered authoritarian leadership style so prominent in U.S. institutions was not working
Greenleaf (name)
Greenleaf is a surname, and occasionally also a given name.
People surnamed Greenleaf.
- Cat Greenleaf (born 1972), American TV reporter
- Elizabeth Bristol Greenleaf (1895–1980), American collector of folk songs
- Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf (1681–1762), American apothecary
- Halbert S. Greenleaf (1827–1906), U.S. Representative
- James Greenleaf (1765–1843), important early American land speculator
- Ralph Greenleaf (1899–1950), American pocket billiard champion
- Robert K. Greenleaf