The Spiritual Leadership Institute was founded in 1996 by Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, Texas, with the guidance of then-President Dan S. Wilford, and is a non-profit, tax-exempt affiliate of Memorial Hermann. The impetus for this endeavor was the view that conventional management methods in organizational and community leadership were failing to address the importance of a foundation of spiritual values in healthcare and other workplace environments.

Spiritual leadership is focused on the primary need of values and spirit for meaningful personal and organizational growth. The Spiritual Leadership Institute frames the discussion of values through the concepts of ethics, trust, vision and spirituality. Organizations that commit to these concepts attract the right people and give them a clear purpose when striving to achieve greatness.

An important goal of the Institute is to take the term spiritual beyond limiting stereotypes that diminish its power. The lack of strong values and the pervasive “emptiness” of work experienced by so many individuals in the workplace are detriments to the human spirit and hold broad implications regarding the quality and excellence of production and life in general.

By advancing the concept of spiritual leadership, the Institute is committed to revitalizing organizational development with challenging insights, creative options and wise strategies that promote productivity, fulfilling work and inspired leadership. The experience objectives of the Institute focus on the development potential for individuals, organizations and community as follows:

• To establish the context for understanding the idea of spiritual leadership
• To provide applications of spiritual leadership in organizational and personal environments
• To explore how spiritual leadership can become a catalyst for change in personal, orginizational, and community life

SLI provides leadership development programs for all levels of employees both within Houston and in other areas of the country. Our approach is to focus on the value development of an individual and the effect these values have on successful organizational development. Values include respect, ethics, honesty, trust, vision and many others.

SLI provides several services including: Assisting organizations in developing a value focused environment, conferences on spirituality in the workplace and leadership tools. The SLI experience provides an opportunity for organizations and participants to gain an insight into value development and encouragement within the corporate environment. These programs are available to any company and their employees. Not only do we talk about values and how to incorporate them into everyday life, but we also have a validated method of measuring values using a profile instrument that measures the strength of a person’s judgment capacity based on their value set. This instrument, the Hartman Value Profile, is used by companies for initial hiring assessments, team building/enhancement and individual growth planning. These activities and resources are further explored within this website or you may contact us for further discussion.