This document provides an overview of Appreciative Inquiry and its applications in positive organizational change. It discusses principles of AI such as constructionism, simultaneity, and positive framing. The document outlines an AI summit method using large group methods to align an organization's strengths. It also provides example topics and questions for AI interviews focused on strengths, aspirations, opportunities, and results.

1. Appreciative Inquiry & Foundations in Positive Organization Development A Pentascope MasterClass David Cooperrider Weatherhead School of Management Case Western Reserve University [email_address]

9. Opening Inquiry Questions for Reflection

15. Pioneering Research Across Many Fields An Emerging Vocabulary of “Positive Change”

18. From Individual Emotions and Neural Impact to High Quality Circuitry in Organizations: Positive Energy and Leading Leadership….(Wayne Baker 2004 in Positive Organizational Scholarship)

24. 1. HIGH POINTS Patterns & Themes Be ready to share one best story from group 2. WHEN ARE PEOPLE MOST PASSIONATE? CONTINUITY: THINGS TO KEEP EVEN AS WE CHANGE: 3. IMAGES OF THE FUTURE WE WANT—WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN 2020

28. Hunter Douglas Case

32. The Positive Core

36. Topic Choice: Examples Magnetic Work Environments Revolutionary Customer Responsiveness Liberating Collaboration Mergers as “A Symphony of Strengths” Outstanding Arrival Experiences Instinctive Execution Game Changing Innovation Optimizing Margins Pervasive Leadership “ Lightning Fast Consensus” “ High Purpose Profit Opportunities”

38. 2. Requires intentional re-framing : The classic choice: “ glass is half empty or half full” 3. Affirmative topic choice Building and analyzing what we want instead of what we don’t want Fairway versus “No not woods” 1. Appreciating the positive inherent generative potential in the present

40. Where Do Good Topics Come From? How to “home-grow” from the 3 generic AI questions TOPIC creation

45. What New Questions? From a Study Customer Dissatisfaction and Complaints

57. The AI 4-D Model of Positive Change Discovery “ What gives life?” The best of what is. Appreciating Dream “ What might be?” Envisioning Results/Impact Design “ What should be – the ideal?” Co-constructing Destiny “ How to empower, learn, and improvise?” Sustaining Affirmative Topic

58. Introduction to the Appreciative Inquiry Summit Method Magnifying Whole System Strengths Using Large Group Methods

59. The AI Organization Summit Method Creating an Alignment of Strengths Using Large Group Methods

66. AI Summits: Three Ways to Understand Positive Change

69. Corporate Merger of Strength with Appreciative Inquiry Scenes From a $8 Billion Dollar Merger Integration Summit

73. Experience of Authority & Influence High Engagement Organization Traditional Command & Control 1st Level 2nd Level LOW Influence HIGH Influence Top Levels

75. “ Let us choose to unite the strengths markets with the power of universal ideals” --UN Secretary General Kofi Annan

76. Appreciative Inquiry Summit Method at the UN Global Compact With 500 CEOs and Civil Society Leaders

78. The AI 4-D Model Discovery “ What gives life?” The best of what is. Appreciating Dream “ What might be?” Envisioning Results/Impact Design “ What should be – the ideal?” Co-constructing Destiny “ How to empower, learn, and improvise?” Sustaining Affirmative Topic

80. Leveraging the Power of Associations for a New Magnitude of Socially Responsible Leadership

81. What OvationNet’s Technology Made Possible

82. The Summit Design Team Website Designing the Summit

83. The Pre-Summit Website Preparing for the Summit

84. Welcome to the Gaylord!

85. Technology… Behind the Scenes Streaming video presentations help dissolve the boundaries of location

86. David Cooperrider Streaming Live To Virtual Participants At the Gaylord

87. Jeffrey Sachs Streaming Live To Virtual Participants At the Gaylord

88. Defining Our Vision

89. Virtual Roundtables

90. Presenting Our Projects

91. Austin, Chicago & Washington DC: Working Together

92. Delayed Time Participation: International Locations Dubai Brussels Shanghai

94. Committing Ourselves

95. And Moving Forward … Project Workspaces

97. Join us for the Follow-up Summit! October 14, 15 & 16

100. How AI Addresses the Three Essentials of Change Management Suresh Srivastva and others Executive Continuity.

107. The AI 4-D Model Discovery “ What gives life?” The best of what is. Appreciating Dream “ What might be?” Envisioning Results/Impact Design “ What should be – the ideal?” Co-constructing Destiny “ How to empower, learn, and improvise?” Sustaining Affirmative Topic

111. Fast Company said… “ IDEO is the world's most celebrated design firm" The Wall Street Journal dubbed IDEO's offices "Imagination's Playground" Fortune titled its visit to IDEO "A Day at Innovation U" Every spring, Business Week includes a cumulative tally of firms who have won the most Industrial Design Excellence Awards. IDEO has topped that list for ten years running.

115. The Age of the Network Small Groups Hierarchy Bureaucracy Networks Nomadic Agricultural Industrial Information 160,000 BCE. 10,000 BCE 18th century... 20 th century... + + +

116. It’s not about Technology

118. The Accelerating Strengths Network “ASN” Over time Online Offline

127. Figure 1: Three Circles for Understanding the Strengths Revolution and the Design of Strengths-based Organizations The Spirit of Appreciative Inquiry