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Webinar [184 MB WMV file], delivered July 8, 2010 by Diana Whitney. Appreciative Leadership: Getting Results by Focusing on What Works. Sponsor: Pegasus Communications.

Video Interview with Diana Whitney, on “Appreciative Inquiry.” Created by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing and the Life Science Foundation.

Webinar, delivered April 2010 by Diana Whitney. Sponsors: Saybrook University and the Society for Organization Learning (SOL).

Recorded Teleconference Presentation, delivered February 2009 by Amanda Trosten-Bloom. Sponsor: Coaches Training Institute (CTI) Coactive Network.

Articles

Feature story, Academy Fellow Diana Whitney in Currents in Commerce, published by the World Business Academy, July 15, 2010.

Online interview with Amanda Trosten-Bloom: “New Book Shares How to Build Thriving Organizations Through Appreciative Leadership.” Axiom News, Ontario, Canada, July 15, 2010.

Leading Positive Performance: A Conversation About Appreciative Leadership: Published in Performance Improvement Journal, Vol. 49, no. 3, March 2010. This is a pre-published article, published by the International Society for Performance Improvement. The final version is available through Wiley InterScience . Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader.

What Can Appreciative Inquiry Do for Your Business?: Published in the Colorado Springs Business Journal, March 26, 2010. Kae Rader.

Diana Whitney Interview with President of Chesapeake Bay OD Network: February, 2010.

Appreciative Inquiry: Creating Spiritual Resonance in the Workplace: Published in Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, Volume 7, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 73 – 88: Diana Whitney, Ph.D. PDF, 532KB.

Indagación
 Apreciativa:
 Una
 Metodoloía de 
Cambio 
y 
Desarrollo,
 Basada
 en
 Principios
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 y
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Humana”,
 Publicado
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Facultad
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de
la
Universidad
Adolfo
Ibáñez, 
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Fernández,
 Editor.
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 PDF, 344 KB

Appreciative Leadership and Participatory Planning: Published in Participatory Quarterly, December, 2007, The Journal of the International Association of Participatory Planning. Diana Whitney, Ph.D. PDF, 143KB.

IAP2 Core Values Award for Project of the Year – Citywide Strategic Plan for Longmont, Colorado: Excerpted from February 2007 issue of Participation Quarterly,  by the International Association for Public Participation. PDF, 776 KB.

Leading by Design: The Five Elements of Appreciative Leadership as Design Criteria: Diana Whitney, Ph.D. PDF, 125 KB.

Why Appreciative Inquiry Works: excerpted from Chapter 11: “Why Appreciative Inquiry Works,” The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change, Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003. PDF, 160 KB.

GTE: The Culture Initiative in Excellence in Practice, Volume 2: Scott Cheney, American Society for Training and Development, 1997.

Exploit What You Do Best: Theodore Kinni. Published in Harvard Management Update, August, 2003. PDF, 72 KB.

Improving Nursing Practice and Patient Care – Building Capacity with Appreciative Inquiry: Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA), Nov. 10, 2006. Donna Sullivan Havens, PhD, RN, FAAN; Susan O. Wood, MS, BA; Jennifer Leeman, DrPH, MDiv. PDF, 268 KB.

Humanizing Traits, Francisco Gomes de Matos, 2010.

The Art of Appreciative Inquiry: Theodore Kinni. Published in HBS Working Knowledge (Faculty Research at Harvard Business School), 9/22/2003. (Archived online)

Workshop Materials

Designing Organizations as if Life Matters: Principles of Appreciative Organizing: Diana Whitney, Ph.D. Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 2, Avital, M., Boland, R., and Cooperrider, D. (Eds.), Elsevier, 2008. PDF, 644 KB.

Managing as Designing with a Positive Lens], Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 2, Avital, M., Boland, R., and Cooperrider, D. (Eds.), Elsevier, 2008. PDF, 136 KB.

Strategic Inquiry → Appreciative Intent: Inspiration to SOAR: Stavros, J., Cooperrider, D. and Kelley, D., AI Practitioner, November 1, 2003. PDF, 504 KB.

Sustaining Appreciative Change Through Organization Design: Loures, R., Transformation (World Business Academy), April 17, 2002, Vol. 16, Issue 4. PDF, 144 KB.

Sustaining Positive Change: Inviting Conversational Convergence through Appreciative Leadership and Organization Design: Mantel, M. and Ludema, J., Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 1, Cooperrider, D. and Avital, M. (Eds.), JAI Press, 2004. PDF, 668 KB.

Creating Appreciative Learning Cultures: Barrett, F., Organizational Dynamics, January 1, 1995, Volume 24, Issue 1. PDF, 1.2 MB.

The Heart of Appreciative Inquiry: Sutherland, J. and Stavros, J., AI Practitioner, November 1, 2003. PDF, 348 KB.

Book Excerpts

Ask More and Tell Less from Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization, Whitney, Trosten-Bloom and Rader, McGraw-Hill, 2010, pp. xxiii-xxv and 29-31.

Appreciative Coaching to Bring Out the Best in Others from Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization, Whitney, Trosten-Bloom and Rader, McGraw-Hill, 2010, pp. xxiii-xxv and 72-75.

Issuing the Invitation: Involving All Stakeholders from Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization, Whitney, Trosten-Bloom and Rader, McGraw-Hill, 2010, pp. xxiii-xxv and 93-97.

Hope: More Than a Compelling Vision from Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization, Whitney, Trosten-Bloom and Rader, McGraw-Hill, 2010, pp. xxiii-xxv and pp. 144-148.

Integrity: the Ultimate Measure of Organizational Success from Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization, Whitney, Trosten-Bloom and Rader, McGraw-Hill, 2010, pp. xxiii-xxv and pp. 174-176.