Stories of Transformative Leadership in the Human Services: Why the Glass Is Always Full

Certain to excite and inspire both students entering the human services field and seasoned non-profit professionals, Stories of Transformative Leadership in the Human Services: Why the Glass Is Always Full is the first full-length leadership book to focus on the unique challenges of the public and non-profit executive, manager, and educator. Written in a lively story-telling style, the book develops a leadership model for those who inspire without bonuses and seek a powerful legacy through people's lives.

Using real-life vignettes drawn from actual experiences, the stories in this book distill important lessons and unfold in a powerful manner that will resonate with any professional asked to work harder . . . with a smaller budget. Questions woven through each story connect to the book's more theoretical material on leadership, personal mastery, and community-building.



Author: Steve Burghardt,Willie Tolliver
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 05/07/2009
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781412970167

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 133

About the Author

Steve Burghardt, PhD, is professor of social work at the Hunter College School of Social Work and partner of the Leadership Transformation Group, is a recognized expert on community organizing, democratic leadership, and popular education. He has taught, trained, consulted, and organized with both grass roots community groups and large scale public agencies on new models of practice throughout his career. The author of seven other books and numerous articles, he has won numerous awards for his teaching on community organizing through popular education, political economy of social welfare, and theories of social change.