Sen Sendjaya

Sen Sendjaya is Professor of Leadership at Swinburne Business School, Australia. He received his Ph.D. from Monash University in 2005.

His latest book is Leadership Reformed: Why Leaders Need the Gospel to Change the World (Routledge, 2019). Previously he authored Personal and Organizational Excellence through Servant Leadership (Springer, 2015), a book-length treatment on servant leadership behavior in organisations, and edited Leading for High Performance in Asia (Springer, 2019).

A leading scholar on servant leadership, Sen has published in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals including the Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, and Personnel Review, among others.

Sen is the creator of the Servant Leadership Behaviour Scale (SLBS), a widely used psychometric measure to inform leadership selection, assessment, and training in organisations. He has been awarded nearly a million dollars in research grants from governments (e.g., Australian Research Council) and industry. He has engaged with leaders in the government, transportation, and higher education, not-for-profits and churches to leverage their capacities to produce deep and lasting impacts on their followers and organisations through executive education, corporate workshops, and research seminars in Australia, America, China, Japan, and Indonesia.

Sen is also an ordained elder and serves as a preaching pastor at a local Presbyterian church in Melbourne.