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The (seminar) fired within me a personal conviction to
selflessly lead, live, and work in community with others,
personally and professionally, following the universal Christian
principles of love, respect, honesty, and humility." Amanda Duncan,
Knoxville, TN
"I appreciate the passion that you brought (to your teaching)...I
also know how you seek to lead out of the same principles that you shared."
Dr. Bill Cain, Chaplain, Montreat College
"Servant leadership was a concept foreign to my vocabulary until taking
this (seminar). Embracing a leadership style of service has positively
affected my life spiritually, personally and professionally." Beth Hargett,
Practice Manager, Piper Glen Animal Hospital
"Indeed, your influence...continues to impact me profoundly four
years following our encounter." Bob Kerich, Charlotte, NC |
 John
Sullivan has had a wide variety of career experiences. He has served as a
Marine Corps fighter pilot, a squadron and air station commander, senior
staff officer, consultant, quality examiner, athletics director, professor,
and conference commissioner. He is widely acclaimed as an authority on
servant leadership as an author, a teacher and a practitioner.
Sullivan served for nine years as an associate
professor of business at
Montreat College, Montreat, NC. His teaching focus
was in the disciplines of leadership and management. His course, "Servant
Leadership," has impacted hundreds of students and influenced many others
worldwide through the Internet. He continues to teach the leadership
course as an adjunct professor.
A highly decorated Vietnam veteran, prior
to entering academia he served for 28 years in the
U.S. Marine Corps as a
helicopter gunship pilot, fighter pilot, squadron commander, senior staff
officer, base commander, and professor, retiring as a colonel. As a senior
staff officer in the
Pentagon, he was Program Coordinator for what was then
the
Department of the Navy's largest development and acquisition program,
the
F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. While he was the Commanding Officer,
Marine
Corps Air Station Beaufort, SC, the base was selected in worldwide
competition as the best installation in the Marine Corps and received the
prestigious Commander-in-Chief’s Award for Installation Excellence.
He was the Course Director of Policy Making
and Implementation within the
National Security Decision Making Department
and professor of management at the
Naval War College, Newport, RI. He
taught in the graduate program primarily in leadership education. He
authored a number of papers, case studies, and articles including "Policy
Implementation: Leadership in Large and Complex Organizations," published by
the
Naval War College Press (1994). [read complete
military biography]
He also served as an adjunct professor at
Roger Williams University and
Salve
Regina University.
An
American Society for Quality
Certified
Quality Manager, he was a founder of the
Rhode Island Area Coalition for
Excellence (RACE), helped design its State quality award, and was its first
lead examiner.
In 1997, he assumed leadership of the
athletic department at Montreat College in addition to his teaching duties.
He was elected President of the
Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) in
1998 and was selected as the
National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics Region XII Athletics Director of the Year in 1999 and 2003. He
was selected as the first Commissioner of the AAC in 2003.
His book,
Servant First! Leadership
for the New Millennium (Xulon Press, 2004), develops a practical
leadership model based on a careful study of the teaching and practice of
Jesus of Nazareth. In addition to his leadership seminars, Sullivan
was a
workshop leader at the
Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove, Asheville,
NC.
He is a graduate of the
University of
Southern California,
Webster University and the
Naval War College. He and
his wife live in Western North Carolina.
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