Leading Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative inquiry is a collaborative, constructive inquiry process that seeks out all that makes organizations, communities and larger human systems thrive. It involves looking for the things that make them most alive, productive, creative, healthy and happy in their interconnected ecosystem of relationships. Appreciating, simply put, is to value and recognize what has value. It's a way to know and value the best of life. Positive Organizational Scholar defines it as a research focus, a positive bias, that seeks to understand dynamic concepts using words such as excellence, thriving and resilience or exceptional and life-giving.