Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey Through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness

Journey through hope, despair, and forgiveness

Leaders cannot predict the complex challenges they are called on to face. Veteran consultants Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell show that Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an invaluable tool to build resilience.

AI is a widely used change approach that emphasizes identifying what's working well in a system. Leaders can use AI to increase their ability to weather the storms they'll inevitably encounter and be resilient. A profound guide, this book features personal accounts from leaders across a variety of settings describing how they've practiced appreciative resilience in the ongoing cycle of hope, despair, and forgiveness.

Author: Joan McArthur-Blair, Jeanie Cockell
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781523082551
ISBN10: 1523082550
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Leadership
- Business & Economics | Motivational
- Business & Economics | Decision Making & Problem Solving

About the Author
Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell, copresidents of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting, specialize in designing strategies to surface the wisdom of individuals, groups, and organizations to build positive futures. They are the coauthors of Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force and many articles on leadership and AI.
Advanced Education as Project Officer leading a large provincial project.

Foreword by David Cooperrider, Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University &
Honorary Chair, The David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry Champlain College