Interview with David Cooperrider
ASTD - online
Date: 02/01/2009
David Cooperrider is best known for his theory and practice of appreciative inquiry (AI) as it relates to corporate strategy, change leadership, and positive organizational scholarship. The idea behind the AI method is to help organizations globally through strengths-based approaches to multi-stakeholder innovation and sustainable design. He is also a founder and chairman of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, which proposes that many global issues today are a chance for organizations to embrace social entrepreneurship and eco-innovation, and find new sources of value.
Cooperrider has lectured or taught at many prestigious academic institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Katholieke University in Belgium, and Cambridge. He has authored 14 books and more than 50 articles, and also designed and facilitated a 2004 UN summit on global corporate citizenship for Kofi Annan and 500 business leaders. He also helped build the United Religions Initiative by working with ex-President Jimmy Carter, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and many other religious leaders. Cooperrider’s distinctions include receiving ASTD’s highest award for "distinguished contribution to the field” for organizational learning in 2004."
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