Daniel’s vision was to start a servant dialogue series in which servant leadership is one pillar. Other pillars include citizens, the economy, the political nature of the state, the media and universities. The plan for the dialogue series is threefold: to produce a South African television documentary series based on interviews with several public, business and social figures across a wide spectrum. Secondly, this information and interview material will be used in a book on servant leadership in South Africa and Africa. The third part is the creation of a domestic and global dialogue on servant leadership from an African perspective. 

The idea around this is to determine what a servant is and what a leader is. Daniel’s aim is to determine how different people have contributed to an understanding of servant leadership in the country.  He wanted to address the "growing lack of ethical leadership in the country [and] the abuse of political power and a lack of national leadership that has led to a yearning amongst citizens for a type of servant leadership where the wellbeing of the people is the key priority for those who lead. 

Daniel’s intent with the servant dialogue series is to shed light on how people used and abused their stature in South African society and ultimately contributed to the divide amongst citizens. Throughout this series on servant leadership, a number of leaders will provide their input, share their experiences and evaluate their service to the country. This will include leaders who have made their mark on the South African and African continent.

This biography of The Servant-Leadership is by and large based on attitudes, perceptions, feelings, and actions, a first of its kind in South Africa, also focusing on the DNA of leaders, leadership, and values of service to citizens embedded in the real context of work and societal interactions and relations. It is a mix of funny, light-hearted, soft, and personal; to hard issues of society today and a mix of roles filled over time by the identified leaders. It is also based on South African experience, knowledge, and relations of leaders with the whole of society, its institutions of the state and markets.

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The great public benefits of this project to South African society and our continent are an outcome of context-based lessons on the complexities of leadership and management in changing political, economic and social circumstances in a transition society, thereby interconnecting the past, present and future; real and innovative experiential knowledge about the characterisation of leadership in the service of citizens from the business, social and political sectors; identification of tools and other forms of capabilities requisite to good quality servant-leadership such as values, norms and universal standards that are context-based and look towards achieving a harmonious society (social inclusion and cohesion); nature of leadership in a divided society and identification of key capabilities to overcome such divides; and lessons from leaders across political and state institutions (legislatures, executive and judiciary), social formations (religious organisations, not-for-profit and mass-based organisations), capital (corporations, etc).