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Preface

We (Cassandra A. Storlie and Barbara Herlihy), as coeditors of this book, welcome you to Counseling Leaders & Advocates: Strengthening the Future of the Profession! As professional counselors, we are naturally drawn to and curious about the stories of our clients. Our curiosity allows us to delve into their worldviews and provides an avenue to better understand how to advocate with and for them. In a parallel way, each of us engages in a form of leadership known as “servant leadership” by ensuring that service is central to the counseling profession and that the needs of others come first (Greenleaf, 1970). This servant leadership philosophy, which is congruent with the founding principles of counseling, fueled our own curiosity about the stories of our current counseling leaders. How do their unique stories help us better understand diverse worldviews and the future of leadership and advocacy in the counseling profession? Part I provides more detailed information about the organization of the book and perspectives on leadership and advocacy; Part II presents the stories of 13 leaders/advocates and is truly the heart of this work; and Part III provides a synthesis and some concluding thoughts. We are excited to offer this book and hope you will find it enjoyable and instructive. For us, serving as coeditors for this work has truly been a labor of love.