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Diana Whitney Ph.D. is the President of Corporation for Positive Change, an international consulting firm specializing in the application of Appreciative Inquiry – the revolutionary process she helped develop and spread – to resolve the most pressing challenges of our time. In fields ranging from healthcare to education; from peace-building to business; from community development to government, Diana coaches executives and their teams in support of organization culture transformation, and strategic development. With over thirty years of experience, her clients include Merck, British Airways, Verizon, J&J, Calgary Health Region, University of Virginia Health System, Idaho Department of Education, and Sisters of Good Shepherd.
Diana is a Founder of the Taos Institute, a center for dialogue among family therapists, educators and organization consultants. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy. She is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center where she teaches and advises PhD students. She is an expert faculty for the NCR Picker Patient Centered Care Institute. Diana was also the President of the Philadelphia Chapter of SHRM.
Dr. Whitney received her Ph.D. from Temple University (1980) in the field of Organizational Communication. Her early research into the dissemination of educational innovations funded by the National Institute of Education created an agenda for the ongoing development of educational R&D laboratories throughout the United States.
Amanda Trosten-Bloom is Managing Director for Corporation for Positive Change – the premier consulting firm using Appreciative Inquiry for transformation and innovation in business, government and nonprofits around the world. One of the first consultants to use Appreciative Inquiry for whole system change in a business setting, Amanda is also an internationally recognized Appreciative Inquiry trainer, author and speaker. Her work focuses primarily on strength-based change in the areas of culture transformation, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, leadership development, and business process improvement.
Kae Rader MPA is an associate with the Corporation for Positive Change (CPC), Kae is one of a select few from around the world licensed to facilitate CPC's Appreciative Leadership Development Program. She has more than 30 years of management and leadership and service in the nonprofit sector, Kae Rader is a dynamic facilitator and results-oriented consultant who specialize in positive, practical approaches to organizational effectiveness. Clients in her consulting practice include: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Idaho State Board of Education and USA Diving. She speaks on the fundamentals of Appreciative Inquiry and its value to enhancing organizational effectiveness. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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Diana Whitney Ph.D. is the President of Corporation for Positive Change, an international consulting firm specializing in the application of Appreciative Inquiry – the revolutionary process she helped develop and spread – to resolve the most pressing challenges of our time. In fields ranging from healthcare to education; from peace-building to business; from community development to government, Diana coaches executives and their teams in support of organization culture transformation, and strategic development. With over thirty years of experience, her clients include Merck, British Airways, Verizon, J&J, Calgary Health Region, University of Virginia Health System, Idaho Department of Education, and Sisters of Good Shepherd.
Diana is a Founder of the Taos Institute, a center for dialogue among family therapists, educators and organization consultants. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy. She is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center where she teaches and advises PhD students. She is an expert faculty for the NCR Picker Patient Centered Care Institute. Diana was also the President of the Philadelphia Chapter of SHRM.
Dr. Whitney received her Ph.D. from Temple University (1980) in the field of Organizational Communication. Her early research into the dissemination of educational innovations funded by the National Institute of Education created an agenda for the ongoing development of educational R&D laboratories throughout the United States.
Amanda Trosten-Bloom is Managing Director for Corporation for Positive Change – the premier consulting firm using Appreciative Inquiry for transformation and innovation in business, government and nonprofits around the world. One of the first consultants to use Appreciative Inquiry for whole system change in a business setting, Amanda is also an internationally recognized Appreciative Inquiry trainer, author and speaker. Her work focuses primarily on strength-based change in the areas of culture transformation, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, leadership development, and business process improvement.
Kae Rader MPA is an associate with the Corporation for Positive Change (CPC), Kae is one of a select few from around the world licensed to facilitate CPC's Appreciative Leadership Development Program. She has more than 30 years of management and leadership and service in the nonprofit sector, Kae Rader is a dynamic facilitator and results-oriented consultant who specialize in positive, practical approaches to organizational effectiveness. Clients in her consulting practice include: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Idaho State Board of Education and USA Diving. She speaks on the fundamentals of Appreciative Inquiry and its value to enhancing organizational effectiveness. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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With the 5 I's (Inquiry, Illumination, Inclusion, Inspiration and Integrity) we now have guidelines to work with. Not only for leaders, but also leaders to be and consultants, this book is an absolute must read for those who work in an ever changing environment. By appreciating the strengths in ourself and others we can help people grow to become the person they need to be and were born to be. Connecting with others to grow is what creates the leaders of today and tomorrow.
Jose Otte
Mizu, leadership development
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Jim Francek
Current President: TAVA Full Circle, LLC
Past Senior Faculty for the Center for Creative Leadership
Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization
Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization
From the generative roots of social constructionist theory, the foundational ground of appreciative inquiry and the enlivening light of positive psychology, flows and blossoms this extraordinary flower of Appreciative Leadership. Senior author Diana Whitney and her two expert coauthors have created an outstanding, inimitable, landmark contribution in what seems an ever growing flower garden of writings on leadership.
One day in graduate school on my way to philosophy class, I paused to admire the working of the school's superintendent of grounds. He shared with me his philosophy and secret for success, saying: "The gardener doesn't lay down the law to the garden; the garden lays down the law to the gardener." By focusing on what works, this book unearths and reveals nature's seminal self-organizing appreciative dynamics for success and positive change. Dr. Whitney and colleagues know, value, follow and flow with the positive -- what works best in the non-machine like, living process, relational nature of human nature, leadership and organizations. Whitney models the message she has for the world. She's the real deal. This book bristles with authenticity and integrity in every word. It's consistent, comprehensive, clear, cogent, congruent, theoretically grounded, uniquely substantive, interactive and deftly designed for ease of read, use and application in all areas of leadership -- personal, individual, team or group, whole organization or community and "a world that works for all."
I have designed and conducted leadership training, conflict resolution, team building, peer action learning and change initiatives with appreciative leadership (A.L.) concepts and tools. A.L. is powerful, effective and invigorating. Many leaders are discovering new approaches such as appreciative inquiry-leadership to align, engage and get real buy-in of people around a common, effective strategic focus. Appreciative Leadership is a model, methodology, mindset and relational way of being, which is not mechanistic or traditionally deficit based; it is courageous, cutting-edge, refreshingly positive, affirming, generative, bridge-building and visionary. It works! It's time has come. Everything in our relational and organizational past has been co-created; therefore our future is open and can also be co-created - consciously, positively and appreciatively with renewed sense of aliveness and vitality. Whitney shows us the way.
A.L. is people centered -- honoring and holding all persons in positive regard. It values diversity, difference and honors all voices. It views people, organizations and life as heliocentric - (like trees, plants and flowers) growing toward energizing, enlivening positive light. People and organizations move toward what they focus on and the questions they ask. A.L. at its core is life-centric, affirming, holistic, inclusive -- a collaborative relational process which sees and frees the powerful potential energy and vitality in a world "wrapped in positive possibility".
The authors' appreciative wisdom and stance is similar to philosopher Pogo's positive declaration: "We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities!" To open this book is to open wide the door of opportunity for effective results and positive futures in every aspect of leadership and life.
The book had a deceptively simple feel for this reader, because it is so inspiring and so readable with a multiplicity of down-to-earth, practical, ready-to-use leadership tools and resources. To the deeply discerning reader it is not only simply understandable, it is simply profound!
A deep bow and big boo-yah to authors Whitney, Trosten-Bloom and Raeder for their life-kindling Appreciative Leadership!
Ronald Bell
Chief Evocateur Officer
Bell Consulting and Training
(Collaborative for Positive Integral Change)
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