Matt Tenney

Categories: Spirituality & Mindfulness | Best-selling Authors

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Matt Tenney is a top expert and public speaker on “Service Leadership”. Author of the best-seller “Serving to be Great” that crystallizes the leadership lessons of his journey from prisoner, to monk, to CEO advisor.

Matt Tenney is a social entrepreneur and the author of Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom.  He is also an international keynote speaker, a trainer, and a consultant with the prestigious Perth Leadership Institute, whose clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies.  

In January 2001, Matt Tenney was arrested for attempting fraud against the United States government and spent more than 5 years confined to a military prison. After he was released, Tenney chose to enter a monastery where he discovered the tranquility and happiness of a life without possessions and in the service of others. After 3 years of meditation and contemplation, he returned to the outside world a transformed man and sought to share his learning with the business sphere.

Matt Tenney has brought the leadership lessons he learned during his experience of misfortune and redemption to companies and institutions around the world, which he narrates in his acclaimed and successful book “Serving to be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, Monastery, and a boardroom”.

Matt Tenney works with companies, associations, universities, and nonprofits to develop highly effective leaders who achieve lasting success by focusing on serving and inspiring greatness in the people around them. Tenney envisions a world where the vast majority of people realize that effectively serving others is the key to true greatness. 

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