CENTER FOR BUSINESS
AS AN AGENT OF WORLD BENEFIT

Sustainability for Value and Profit

Dr. David Cooperrider & Dr. Chris Laszlo

February 12-13, 2008

You recognize the need to become sustainable—your suppliers and customers demand it, your employees feel good about it, and future generations depend upon it. You also know that sustainability presents unprecedented opportunities for increasing the bottom line over the long term.

It’s time to push your sustainability agenda forward. Using tools for organizational change based on Appreciative Inquiry (AI), this program will help you move beyond individual projects in discrete areas of your organization, and toward a central, integrated strategy that maximizes value creation. AI is a proven approach for engaging multiple stakeholders to achieve rapid, dramatic and holistic change. Identify new business opportunity and discover how to capitalize on sustainability. Learn new ways to innovate, make decisions, and measure outcomes that elevate shareholder and stakeholder value. This program provides a revolutionary approach to achieving sustainable business practices.

Foundations and Frontiers in Appreciative Inquiry

Dr. Ron Fry

February 25-28, 2008

Discover. Dream. Design. Create your Destiny. These principles are at the core of Appreciate Inquiry (AI), a revolutionary approach to strategic change and sustainable growth for organizations. To be effective, change requires speed, flawless execution and buy-in at all levels. AI accomplishes this by engaging all stakeholder groups in a collaborative approach to decision-making. It is a process of inquiry which challenges the whole system to maximize the positive potential for cultural change, strategic planning, leadership development, joint ventures and alliances, team building, community development and dramatic whole system change. This 3.5-day workshop gives participants an opportunity to discover how and why Appreciative Inquiry (AI) transforms organizations through live simulations, case studies and illustrations. Network with a powerful, energizing group of peers from across different industries and sectors and learn how to ask the questions that open the floodgates for positive change, engage the whole system, and generate measurable results.

Igniting Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry
Dr. Ron Fry
May 27, 2008

The way in which organizations approach strategic change and sustainable growth is changing! Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is redefining the way companies and individuals experience transition by focusing on core strengths and leveraging them to reshape the future. Rather than deficit- based approaches which outline only problems, resistance, or obstacles, AI asks all stakeholders to rediscover the best of what is in order to dream boldly about – and initiate – what could be. Participants will see how AI can be applied to enhance an organization’s ability to catalyze and sustain positive change. Participants will learn with one of the creators of this revolutionary approach and leave with a new, positive and refreshed perspective on individual and organizational change.