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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