Keynote Speakers

Please meet a first list of outstanding speakers of the World Appreciative Inquiry Conference 2019. More will join, keep in touch!

David Cooperrider

David is Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University and holds two chaired professorships: Char and Chuck Fowler Professor of Business as an Agent of World Benefit and the Fairmount Santrol | David L. Cooperrider Professorship in Appreciative Inquiry. David is also the Honorary Chair of Champlain College's David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry. Last year, David received "The Lifetime Achievement Award"--the highest honor in the field of Organization Development—for his pioneering work on Appreciative Inquiry and the design of Positive Institutions. David serves as advisor with organizations such as Apple, the UN, and the Global Compact bringing the innovation of companies to the 17 SD Global Goals.

Lindsey Godwin

Lindsey is a Professor of Management at the Stiller School of Business at Champlain College where she serves as the Robert P. Stiller Endowed Chair and Academic Director of the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, where she studied with the founding thought-leaders in Appreciative Inquiry (AI). Her work has been published in a variety of journals and books, and she has presented in conferences around the world. As a practitioner-scholar, she remains active in the global Appreciative Inquiry community and has a passion for helping organizations leverage their potential through strength-based change.

Gervase Bushe

Gervase Bushe (pronounced Jervis Bush) wants to create a world in which collective intelligence is more potent than collective emotion; a world in which the diversity of experiences in any group are a source of collective good, not collective strife. His research, consulting and writing have developed models and tools that help people co-construct social realities where collective intelligence, collective creativity and collective well being flourish. He is an award winning author of over 100 papers and three books, many of them on appreciative inquiry, and has close to 40 years of experience as an organization development consultant. His most recent book, co-edited with Robert Marshak, is Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change, hailed by academics and practitioners as a ground breaking re-imagining of organizational change theory and practice. He is The Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

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