Diana is Founder and President of Corporation for Positive Change and a Founder of the Taos Institute.
She is an internationally recognized consultant, speaker, and thought leader on the subjects of Appreciative Inquiry, positive change, and spirituality at work.
She is the author or editor of five books and dozens of articles, and chapters including Appreciative Inquiry Handbook (with David Cooperrider and Jackie Stavros), The Appreciative Inquiry Summit (with James Ludema, Bernard Mohr and Thomas Griffin) and The Power of Appreciative Inquiry (with Amanda Trosten-Bloom). In addition, she has edited three collections on Appreciative Inquiry including: Appreciative Inquiry and Organization Transformation, and Appreciative Inquiry:Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Positive Theory of Change.
Diana teaches and consults in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. She has lectured and taught at Antioch University, Case Western Reserve University, Ashridge Management Institute in London, Saybrook University, Eisher Institute in India and others. The focus of Diana?s consulting is strategic planning, mergers, large-scale transformation, and service excellence. Her clients include British Airways, Hunter Douglas, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Accenture, GTE-Verizon, GE Capitol, Johnson & Johnson, Sandia National Labs, NY Power Authority, PECO, Veterans Affairs and the Department of Labor. Her work with GTE led to the 1997 Best Organization Change Award by ASTD. Diana serves as a consultant to the United Religions Initiative, a global interfaith organization dedicated to peace and cooperation among people of different religions,faiths, and spiritual traditions. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.
Academy Articles by Diana Whitney:
* Spirituality as an Organizing Principle
* Partnership at Work