AI Practitioner February 2012

Learning is the Spark of Transformation

Editors: Jan Reed, Lena Holmberg and Marianne Tracy

Wonderful examples of individual and organizational transformation that starts with learning:

• Rethinking purpose in a maximum security prison
• Virtual SOARing in a School of Nursing
• Re-engaging 15 year olds in a Singapore school

Jan Reed Ph.D. B.A, RN has been involved in research for many years. She has a nursing qualification, and teaches and supervises healthcare students at Northumbria University. She is well known for her ground-breaking book, Appreciative Inquiry: Research for Change Contact jreedhexham@gmail.com

Lena Holmberg has a Ph.D. in Educational Research, worked as a consultant and manager in an IT company and started the AI consulting company Apprino. With Jan Reed, she was guest editor of the November 2007 issue of AI Practitioner which focused on AI and research. Contact: lmholmberg@gmail.com lenamholmberg.blogspot.com

Marianne Tracy's roots are in the utilization of leading practices to facilitate executive and team development and organizational effectiveness. She is a PhD candidate in Organization Development at Benedictine, with a MSc in Organization Development with Pepperdine University. A Tavistock Leadership Coach, she writes with a learning and development focus. Contact tracymarianne@gmail.com

AI Practitioner May 2012

The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: Explorations into the Magic of Macro-Management and Crowdsourcing

Editors: David Cooperrider, Lindsey N. Godwin, Brodie Boland and Michel Avital

This issue will highlight the innovative ways AI Summits are being applied around the world – and innovations in the methodology itself. Examples include economic, education and regional environmental summits including Hewlett Packard’s use of AI to transform their branding. Advances in the methodology include innovations in the design and destiny phases.

David Cooperrider Ph.D. is the Fairmount Minerals Professor and Chair of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western Reserve University. David has served as advisor to a wide variety of organizations including Fairmount Minerals, McKinsey, Parker Hannifin, American Red Cross, Wal-Mart, the US Navy and United Nations. David has published 13 books and authored over 60 articles and chapters. david.cooperrider@case.edu

Lindsey N. Godwin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at Champlain College. Lindsey was Co-Chair for past International AI Conferences in Orlando and Nepal and has worked with organizations around the globe. She is a knowledge manager for the AI Commons and collaborates with iCohere and David Cooperrider to deliver online experiential AI workshops. godwin@champlain.edu

Brodie is a third-year doctoral candidate in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University. His research focuses on orchestrated social movements, transformational change in large systems, and disruptive green technology innovation. He was formerly a consultant in McKinsey & Company's Toronto office, and served as President of AIESEC International. Email: boland.brodie@gmail.com

Michel Avital is a Professor of Information Management in Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on information and organization with an emphasis on the social aspects of information technologies. He has published articles on topics such as information systems, design, innovation, creativity, knowledge sharing, social responsibility and Appreciative Inquiry. Email: michel@avital.net

AI Practitioner August 2012

Inclusive Spaces: Using Appreciative Processes to Transform Social Structures

Editors: Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair

Readers are invited into multiple viewpoints on the nature of Critical Appreciative Inquiry linking Appreciative Inquiry, critical theory and transformative education. Examples come from religion, policing, the L’Arche movement, intergenerational dialogue, immigrant parents and creating pathways to inclusive engagement.

Each contributor brings a deep involvement with AI and shows how it can transform social structure differences.

Jeanie Cockell, an educational and organizational consultant, ‘makes magic’ through engaging her clients in collaboratively co-creating authentically appreciative and transformative relationships. As a presenter, writer, facilitator, teacher and consultant, she inspires individuals and organizations to create positive futures and respond effectively to change by building on strengths and successes. Contact: Jeanie@jeaniecockell.com; www.jeaniecockell.com ,

Joan McArthur-Blair is a writer and speaker who grounds her Appreciative Inquiry and leadership work in her love of words and in the possibilities of higher education. Her background is in higher education, a world where she spent 28 amazing years, most recently as a college president. Contact: jmcarthur-blair@ns.sympatico.ca

AI Practitioner November 2012

Embracing the Shadow through Appreciative Inquiry

Editors: Stephen P. Fitzgerald and Christine Oliver

We invite a reframing of AI as ‘people inquiring together into the infinite potentials and varieties of human organizing.’ We invite stories where: AI is purposefully designed as an intervention into shadow, particularly when the result is transformational; and where AI inadvertently creates shadow.

Stephen P. Fitzgerald, PhD, is an organizational psychologist, Associate Professor of Business Administration, and Faculty Lead in the Doctoral Management area at Trident University International. Steve has published extensively on AI and the Shadow, co-edited the 06 May issue of AIP, and worked with clients to inquiry appreciatively into the organizational shadow.

Christine Oliver is a Systemic Psychotherapist, Group Analyst and organisational consultant. She has contributed to the development of AI through extensive publication, including: Barge & Oliver (2003), Working with Appreciation in Managerial Practice, Fitzgerald et al (2010), AI as a Shadow Process and Oliver et al (2011) Critical Appreciation of Appreciative Inquiry.