Portland, Oregon, USA

This advanced Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Studio is designed for leaders and consultants of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) initiatives in business, government, non-profit organizations and communities. – i.e. - senior managers, consultants and anyone else who has a basic grounding in AI and is ready to move to the next level.

Bernard J. Mohr and Sallie Lee

July 28-30, 2008

8:30 - 5 pm each day

Course Fee, per person:

A deposit of half the course fee is due at registration to reserve your space. Payment in full is due 15 days prior to the program.

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To register, please contact Robin at Executive Forum at TEL: 503.475.6503 or robin@executiveforum.com

or online at www.executiveforum.com

Prior attendance at an AI Foundations workshop (or equivalent) and some experience with using AI as an approach to organizational change or transformation in corporate, governmental or not-for-profit organizations.

Fee Includes:
All materials used in the course. Continental breakfast and lunch, all 3 days. Course fee does not include dinner, hotel or transportation costs.

Contact Robin at Executive Forum at
TEL: 503.475.6503 or robin@executiveforum.com
Or online at www.executiveforum.com

In this highly collaborative clinic we will develop an advanced learning community of practice which will help you to go deeper, faster, and farther with Appreciative Inquiry by identifying your personal strengths as an AI practitioner, and expanding your capacity to design and lead AI initiatives resulting in accelerated change with measurable results.

We will invite you to share with other knowledgeable and experienced colleagues, stories you want to tell and to hear about, innovations and unique applications you are excited about, ways to integrate AI into your life; dilemmas you've always wanted to explore, and other curiosities you have from your own practice.

Participant interest will drive the agenda – past sessions have included dialogues around such significant questions as:

• How can I do process redesign with AI?
• What really has to happen in the early stages ie when we are scoping the project and budgeting for it?
• How do we work pragmatically, tailoring interventions to the pragmatics and constraints of organisational life without loosing the integrity of what we need to do?
• When do I use AI Summits, Positive Change Networks, AI Consortia, Whole System Dialogue, Innovation Teams, AI Learning Teams etc.
• What happens after Dream?
• How do we measure and sustain the change in Destiny?
• What does it mean “to be AI”??

Bernard J. Mohr, one of Appreciative Inquiry’s earliest pioneers has 40 years experience with clients such as British Petroleum, British Airways, Coca-Cola, Canadian Broadcasting Corp, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, the I.R.S., L.L. Bean, and GlaxoSmithKline supporting innovations in how people organize and coordinate, how strategy is translated into daily practice, how improvement in quality, effectiveness and relationships is approached and the way organizations (public, private and not for profit) address challenges such as mergers, rapid expansion, new market demands and social contribution.

He is a frequent keynote speaker and author of Appreciative Inquiry: Change At The Speed of imagination; The Essentials of Appreciative Inquiry: A Roadmap for Creating Positive Futures and The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner’s Guide for Leading Positive Large-Group Change. A graduate of Waterloo, Toronto, and Columbia, he is adjunct faculty at Columbia, NTL Institute, and is on the Advisory Board of Taos Institute.

Sallie Lee, Principal, Innovation Partners International, has applied and taught AI around the world for over 10 years, and has facilitated hundreds of workshops on the human dimensions of organizational change, specializing in whole system planning, strategic initiatives, and collaborative processes. Trained in psychology and philosophy at NC State University, Sallie also has an MA in International Development from University of Miami and certification in Global Change and Social Innovation from Case Western Reserve University's Global Excellence in Management Program.