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As Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) continue to expand across the United States, there is an even greater need for faculty at HSIs to engage with the construct of servingness to advance Latinx student success. Yet, there is very little research that points to professional development for faculty to understand what servingness means and how to implement it into faculty roles of research, teaching, and service. To address this gap, this paper provides a model for faculty professional development around and with servingness. Following, this paper centers the voces of six faculty from diverse fields and disciplines who in their first year at an HSI participated in a professional development series focused on servingness, and who, then explicitly connected their research and teaching with servingness. As such, this paper provides practical steps to design professional development for faculty around servingness. It also highlights the significance of professional development for faculty implementation of servingness in research and teaching.