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| Dr. David Cooperrider of Western Reserve University, recognized internationally as the pioneer of the “Appreciative Inquiry” method, led the Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Summit participants in developing solutions that built on the existing strengths of the Houston Independent School District. David is the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is past Chair of the National Academy of Management’s OD Division and has lectured and taught at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Katholieke University in Belgium, MIT, University of Michigan, Cambridge, and others. David is founder and Chair of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. The center’s core proposition is that sustainability is the business opportunity of the 21st century, indeed that every social and global issue of our day is an opportunity to ignite industry leading eco-innovation, social entrepreneurship, and new sources of value. David has served as advisor to a wide variety of organizations including the Boeing Corporation, Fairmount Minerals, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, McKinsey, Parker, Sherwin Williams, Wal-Mart as well as American Red Cross, American Hospital Association, Cleveland Clinic, and World Vision. Most of the projects are inspired by the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology for which David is best known. His founding theoretical work in this area is creating a positive revolution in the leadership of change; it is helping institutions all over the world discover the power of the strength-based approaches to multi-stakeholder innovation and sustainable design. David’s work is especially unique because of its ability to enable positive change, innovation, and sustainable design in systems of large and complex scale. David often serves as meeting speaker and leader of large group, interactive conference events. Among his highest honors, David was invited to design a series of dialogues among 25 of the world's top religious leaders, started by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Using AI, the group held meetings in Jerusalem and at the Carter Center with President Jimmy Carter. David was recognized in 2000 as among “the top ten visionaries” in the field by Training Magazine and in 2004 received ASTD’s highest award for “distinguished contribution to the field” of organizational learning. David received the 2004 Porter Award for best writing from the OD Network, and was named this year’s 2007 Faculty Pioneer for his impact in the field of sustainability by the Aspen Institute. David’s dynamic ideas on Appreciative Inquiry and sustainable design have been published in journals and popular media. He has published 14 books and authored over 50 articles. Cooperrider’s volumes include Handbook of Transformative Cooperation (with Sandy Piderit and Ron Fry) a series of books on Appreciative Inquiry; The Organization Dimensions of Global Change (with Jane Dutton); Organizational Courage and Executive Wisdom (with Suresh Srivastva). David is editor of the research series Advances in Appreciative Inquiry (with Michel Avital) published by Elsevier Science, which is currently going to press with its third volume. For
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