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This paper explores the development of an individual service orientation leading to the growth of spiritual capital at the organization level. A well-developed service orientation comprises a key competency for successful and ethical leadership in a multi-sector context. The paper begins with an examination of the nature of service, proposing a model of service in order to more clearly note the relationships between service, ethics, and leadership. It subsequently examines the development of a service orientation in individuals, utilizing concepts from cognitive science to explain the construction of this disposition. After noting the direct links to ethics and leadership at the individual level, including parallels to Servant-Leadership and Transformational leadership, the paper explicates the synergistic possibilities of individual service orientations combining to produce spiritual capital in organizations.