Robert K. Greenleaf
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Robert Kiefner Greenleaf[1] (1904–1990) was the founder of the modern servant leadership movement and the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership.
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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 40 years he researched management, development, and education. He became suspicious that the power-centered authoritarian leadership style so prominent in U.S. institutions was not working, and in 1964, he took an early retirement to found the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (initially called the Center for Applied Ethics).