Amanda Trosten-Bloom
Amanda Trosten-Bloom is Managing Director for Corporation for Positive Change (CPC), 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.
Over the course of 30 years as a consultant and manager, Amanda has worked in a variety of arenas including high tech, service, manufacturing, education, health care, financial, scientific and municipal government. Her clients have included: Hewlett-Packard; IHS; Accenture Consulting; Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division; the National Security Administration; the Cities of Boulder, Denver and Longmont, CO; Boulder County, CO; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); and the University of Mississippi Health Sciences Center.
An interview guest on radio and television programs across the nation, Amanda is also co-author of the best-selling book The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change (Berrett-Koehler: 2003), considered to be the strongest practical guide to Appreciative Inquiry on the market. Additional publications include Appreciative Team Development: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best in Your Team (iUniverse, 2005); the Encyclopedia of Positive Questions – Volume One: Questions to Bring Out the Best at Work, and more than a dozen articles and book chapters.
For more information about Appreciative Inquiry, Corporation for Positive Change or Amanda Trosten-Bloom, visit the Corporation for Positive Change web site: www.positivechange.org.
