What Was OD Made For?
(Changing Everything, Everywhere, With Everyone, All at Once)
Dr. David Cooperrider
Join us on April 9 from 4-6pm PT for a positive and uplifting workshop with Dr. David Cooperrider, founder of Appreciative Inquiry.
All over the world, we are witnessing the potential of what leading economists are calling “mission economics.” Today’s emerging mission or purpose economy is, by far, the world’s largest universal change project ever. To end the climate crises in less than a generation while creating a future of “full-spectrum flourishing” requires more than moonshot thinking or bold policies and breakthroughs in technology.
The deeper cornerstone capacity is nothing less than the elevation and expansion of human systems collaborative change capacity at whole new orders of magnitude, radical inclusiveness, and speed—at precisely the time we are witnessing the anguished fraying of our social bonds. This talk asserts that we are at a Lewinian-like watershed moment in OD and are poised to step into the next great episode in OD history. It introduces and explores new key terms—such as “full-spectrum flourishing” and “net positive OD” and “macro-to-micro OD” and the discovery and design of “positive institutions”-- including our most recent empirical survey research and some 6-thousand “better business, better world” interviews into the paradoxical and life-giving power of “mirror flourishing.”
About Your Facilitator
David Cooperrider is a Case Western Reserve University Distinguished University Professor and has held two endowed chairs including the Char and Chuck Fowler Professor for Business as an Agent of World Benefit & currently the Covia-David L. Cooperrider Professorship for Appreciative Inquiry at the Weatherhead School of Management. David is the Faculty Founder of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit.
David was awarded the Organization Development Network’s “Life-Time Achievement Award” for his pioneering work in the field of Organization Development and, in 2023, was given the field’s newest honor: the “Elevating Humanity Award.” David has published 27 books and authored over 120 articles and book chapters. Three of his books are Berrett-Koehler Publishing “Best Sellers” and his most recent book is titled The Business of Building a Better World: The Leadership Revolution That is Changing Everything; and it’s a book that was the “Reader’s Choice” winner of getAbstract’s 2022 book of the year award. David is best known for his founding theoretical work and research giving birth to Appreciative Inquiry, now being applied in organizations, whole industries, and cities around the world.
He has served as OD and strategic change advisor with companies such as Apple, Johnson & Johnson, Green Mountain Coffee, National Grid, Vitamix, IBM, and many others, and has worked with five Presidents and/or Nobel Laureates such as William Jefferson Clinton, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, and others. Jane Nelson, at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Leadership, wrote, “David Cooperrider is one of the outstanding scholar-practitioners of our generation.”
COST:
$15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered
$25 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered
$10 for students/seniors pre-registered
AGENDA:
3:45 - 4:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting
4:00- 6:00 pm Training
Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.
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