Wednesday
evening,
LSA’s
Barger Leadership Institute host-
ed the first of their speaker series
at Weiser Hall. This event fea-
tured Paul Saginaw, the co-found-
er of Zingerman’s Community
of Businesses, as well as Eileen
Spring, the president and CEO of
Food Gatherers, Michigan’s first
food rescue program.
Mary Schlitt, assistant director
for the Barger Leadership Insti-
tute, described the purpose and
main goals of the first event in the
Barger Institute’s new speaker se-
ries.
“The speaker series is an op-
portunity for us to bring in lead-
ers from all different contexts and
all different arenas and sectors
to kind of share their leadership
practices and habits with our stu-
dents,” Schlitt said.
The event targeted undergrad-
uate students in hopes to show
that not everyone’s career paths
and journeys to leadership are
straightforward.
“(The main goal is) to expose
undergraduate students to indi-
viduals whose leadership jour-
neys are not linear, but they’re
full and they also encompass a lot
of different experiences and life
experiences,” Schlitt said. “And
how especially with these two
leaders, how they work through
connections and connecting to
clients, and community mem-
bers and the government and all
these different stakeholders to
make decisions and to advance
the agendas and visions of their
organizations.”
Ramaswami Mahalingam, di-
rector of the Barger Leadership
Institute and a professor of psy-
chology at the University, high-
lighted the uniqueness of the
organization.
“The unique aspect of BLI
is we want leadership develop-
ment that’s based on liberal arts
education, and so the emphasis
is on community based learn-
ing,” Mahalingam said.
Mahalingham explained the
institute’s emphasis on value-
guided leadership.
“I think one of the challenges
for any leader is how to con-
nect their leadership style to the
values they have,” Mahalingam
said. “I mean these two people
are examples of how their values
are guiding the kind of leader-
ship model they evolve.”
The event started off with a
conversation facilitated by Ma-
halingam between both speak-
ers. The conversation com-
menced with a question about
how the individuals’ values had
shaped their leadership journey.
Spring discussed the most
important values that guide her
life, highlighting the important
role trust plays in the way she
interacts with her employees
and volunteers, and how it af-
fects the overall structure of her
organization.
“Trust is the biggest asset that
a community organization has,
and that’s probably true of any
organization, but, you know, you
have to earn it every day but it’s
very fragile, it can be lost in like
a moment,” Spring said. “And so
to have your decisions based in
that, and to have that bank, if you
will, of trust, then your integrity
can really guide you through re-
ally complex difficult situations
where you don’t really know the
answer.”
Saginaw recounted his early
challenges and his experience
building Zingerman’s into what it
is today.
“In my experience, anything
worth doing, anything of signifi-
cance, somewhere along the time-
line from where you’ve hatched
this idea, and where you can
measure it by all metrics you’ve
been successful you’re popping
the champagne, somewhere along
here it’s going to look like a total
failure,” Saginaw said. “And that’s
when you really have to stay with
it and keep going, it’s still a great
idea so let’s just keep going.”
Saginaw discussed his views
on leadership and his wish to give
all of his employees the tools they
need to succeed. He has worked
hard to create a system that al-
lows for improvement and ad-
vancement.
“We practice what’s called ‘ser-
vant leadership’... that’s focusing
on the growth and development
of the people that work for us,”
Saginaw said. “We believe that ev-
erybody who comes in has some
of the ingredients necessary to
be successful and it’s our job is to
help them identify what their mo-
tives are and to encourage them
to take action on those. And if
we’re focusing on that, we’re go-
ing to be in good shape.”
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