The Will to Serve - Inspiring Models of Servant Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship

The European SPES Institute, the Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics (ILSE), and the Damien Center organized the annual European SPES Conference entitled “The Will to Serve: Inspiring Models of Servant Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship,” in May 24-26, 2018, in Leuven, Belgium. We invite academic submissions from different disciplines regarding this topic.

Inspiring social and economic leaders are able to transform a conflictual human settlement into a collaborative and caring human community. Can we induce from their ‘way of doing things’ a model of civic entrepreneurship and leadership that can inspire people in profit, non-profit and public organizations? To what extent is the “will to serve” compatible with the will to maximize profit or the will to gain economic, political or religious power? Do different spiritual traditions create different models and examples of servant leadership? This conference is part of the Damien project of the European SPES Institute, a research project that focuses on spirituality in action through servant leadership and social entrepreneurship.