A Servant Visionary for the Emergency Services

This chapter introduces the visionary responsibility of the emergency services leader. A leader’s vision becomes the map organizations follow in order to navigate a path towards success. The servant leader holds vision as a virtue. The characteristics that form the servant leader strengthen this visionary ability. Yet, vision is only the first step. To bring that vision to fruition followers have to be the ones that work towards its reality. The visionary leader is the leader that dreams, they are keenly aware of the world, they can conceptualize ideas, they have the foresight to see what does not yet exist. The servant leader is one who can persuade others to want to take the visionary journey and willingly make it in their own.