Lunch & LEAD: Advancing Leadership Through Service

Adaptability is critical for future global leaders and a mechanism through which leaders can be best prepared to navigate constantly changing environments and shifting circumstances. The presentation aims to explore the relationships between global leadership mindset and adaptability by applying servant leadership and cultural humility perspectives. Leadership theories and approaches to leadership and leadership adaptability will be discussed relative to leadership traits, skills, and knowledge and their potential relation to the degree of leadership adaptability. Servant leadership refers to the leader's aim to serve others first, and it differs from the commonly traditional leadership, where the leader's primary focus is to help their company or organization thrive. Cultural humility is a mindset and process that enables a global leader's ability to adapt to a culturally diverse environment. A global leader with cultural humility develops cultural awareness and tends to interact and adapt effectively with people of different cultures. We propose that by combining servant leadership and cultural humility through service-learning practices, mindsets will enhance the development of global leadership adaptability. Being adaptable as a leader allows for innovation and growth while navigating cultural disparities. Global leaders must be resilient, relevant, vigilant, ready to address crises and strive for the need for stability and progress for humanity's survival while transforming and inspiring effective change. Leadership transformation influences and inspires team and organizational transformation in times of uncertainty or change. The presentation suggests a conceptual framework with servant leadership, service-learning, and cultural humility perspectives to create a global leadership mindset to enhance leadership adaptability to meet leadership challenges today.

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