Diana Whitney, PhD
Diana Whitney, PhD, is founder and president of Corporation for Positive Change and a founder of the Taos Institute, which provides information and training on social constructionist ideas. She is an internationally recognized consultant, speaker, and thought leader on the subjects of Appreciative Inquiry, positive change, and spirituality at work.
Whitney 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.
Whitney 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 her 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, New York Power Authority, PECO, Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Labor. Her work with GTE led to the 1997 Best Organization Change Award by the American Society for Training and Development.
Whitney also 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 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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