Cortney Wilson, Ed.D.
Director / Frank Brown Endowed Chair for Servant Leadership
Servant Leadership, William B. Turner Center for
Education and Certifications
- Doctorate of Education, Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development, University of Georgia
- Master of Science, Organizational Leadership, Columbus State University
- Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Language, Columbus State University
- Cortney is a certified Human Behavior Consultant with Personality Insights and a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. She is certified and well-versed in the DiSC and the CliftonStrengths assessments.
Biography
Cortney coordinates and teaches several of the nine LEAD courses that serve as the
academic foundation of the undergraduate Servant Leadership Program at Columbus State
University. She also works collaboratively with other departments at Columbus State
to ensure that servant leadership is present in its student leadership initiatives
and oversees the operations of the Care Services Program, which includes the state-wide
Embark Program and the Food Pantry at CSU.
Before returning to Columbus State as the Assistant Director of the Servant Leadership
Program in December 2017, Cortney was the Servant Leadership Program Coordinator at
Brookstone School.
Cortney is actively engaged in the CSU campus community, currently serving on the
executive committee of the Athletic Fund's board of directors and previously serving
on the Alumni Association board. In the broader Columbus, Georgia community, Cortney
has served on the steering committees of United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley and
the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals. She is a graduate of
Leadership Columbus (Class of 2017), was recognized as one of Columbus and the Valley
magazine’s “5 Under Forty” in 2021, and was selected for GeorgiaForward’s Young Gamechangers
program in 2023.
Cortney is a proud alumna of the undergraduate Servant Leadership Program at CSU as
well as the graduate program that has a concentration in Servant Leadership.
Personality Preferences
- MBTI: ENFJ
- DiSC: I / S
- Emergenetics: Social / Structural
- Clifton StrengthsFinder: Empathy / Positivity / Responsibility / Includer / Woo
- FourSight: Ideator