Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell, copresidents of Cockell
McArthur-Blair Consulting, specialize in designing strategies to
surface the wisdom of individuals, groups, and organizations to
build positive futures. They are the coauthors of Appreciative
Inquiry in Higher Education- A Transformative Force and many
articles on leadership and AI.
Advanced Education as Project Officer leading a large provincial
project.
Foreword by David Cooperrider, Distinguished University Professor,
Case Western Reserve University &
Honorary Chair, The David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative
Inquiry Champlain College
2018 Silver Nautilus Award Winner in the Relationships &
Communication category.
“Critique: Exceptionally well written, organized and presented,
"Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership
Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness" is an especially
and unreservedly recommended addition to corporate, governmental,
community, college, and university leadership instructional
reference collections.” – Midwest Book Review
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/sep_18.htm#logan
“Resilience has become one of the most highly sought-after
competencies for today’s leaders—a capability that organizations
struggle to define but seek to both hire and develop. Building
Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry offers a model that captures
and simplifies the elements of resilience along with practical and
accessible approaches to developing and practicing resilience.
Applicable across sectors, ages, and roles, this is a great go-to
for organizations and individuals who seek to be prepared for
change and leadership.”
—Anna-Marie Stuart, FCPA, FCMA, FCMC, Managing Partner,
Knightsbridge Robertson Surrette
“Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry is about making
being human a sustainable endeavor in a world of complexity,
adversity, and uncertainty. This book provides tools, practices,
and reflective questions that will build your capacity to dance
fluidly with hope, despair, and forgiveness. The result:
resilience, an essential strength for leaders committed to evolving
a more positive future. Jeanie and Joan are strikingly honest in
sharing their own stories and the stories of other leaders. Anyone
stuck in despair, at odds with forgiveness, or looking for hope
should read this book. You will come out the other side stronger
and more resilient than ever.”
—Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros, coauthors of Conversations Worth
Having and Dynamic Relationships
“Jeanie and Joan model bravery throughout this book. They dive into
the human condition of despair and apply Appreciative Inquiry
practices to being resilient. With exercises and dramatic stories,
they share this as a framework for facilitators, coaches, trainers,
and leaders to ‘fan the capacity to inquire into and fuel the
bravery leaders hold in their hearts.’”
—Kathy Becker, President and CEO, Company of Experts, Inc., and
CEO, Center for Appreciative Inquiry
“The perfect balance of theory and practice, grounded in courageous
stories of hope, despair, and forgiveness. This book inspires
leaders, facilitators, and individuals with a road map for their
own leadership journey. The appreciative resilience model provides
an accessible framework coupled with reflective questions to guide
your practice and strengthen your leadership resilience. The
practical tools and workshop agenda are excellent resources for
facilitators and leaders to strengthen teams and foster an
environment of appreciative resilience.”
—Anita Ferriss, Organizational and People Development Specialist,
Camosun College
“Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair have written a wholly
unique, original, and poetic book that explores one of the most
important qualities leaders must cultivate in themselves and
nurture in others: resilience. The authors’ approach to fostering
resilience is as powerful as it is unexpected. We do not become
more resilient, they write, by ‘toughening up’ or ‘doing more,
better, and faster.’ Instead, we fully realize the capacity to
sustain ourselves and others in challenging experiences by
journeying through hope, despair, and forgiveness in a process of
appreciative inquiry. Refreshing and beautifully written, Building
Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry is rich with engaging stories,
reflective questions, and practical applications that will better
enable you to thrive in your work, life, and leadership. Read this
book and flourish.”
—Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge
and Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of
Business, Santa Clara University
“While there is no clear road map through the new and unprecedented
challenges that today’s leaders face in our ever-increasingly
complex world, in Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry,
Jeanie and Joan provide a compass to help any leader—formal or
otherwise—navigate the often bumpy journey with compassion and
resilience. Like a lighthouse beacon on a stormy night, their ALIVE
model offers a pragmatic framework for leaders to traverse even the
darkest shoals they may face on their journey to help guide others.
If you have ever sought to turn leadership breakdowns into
breakthroughs, or realize that you need to put your oxygen mask on
before helping others, this book is for you.”
—Lindsey N. Godwin, PhD, Director, David L. Cooperrider Center for
Appreciative Inquiry, and Professor of Management, Robert P.
Stiller School of Business, Champlain College
“Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair have produced a remarkable
work based on their scholar-practitioner journey where they
demonstrate how to leverage the power of human emotions without
judgment and with unconditional acceptance. Building on their
decades of work on appreciative inquiry, they share what’s next for
building organizations for ecological sustainability and social
justice. Jeanie and Joan make a critical link between positive
approaches in organizations and resilience and demonstrate how the
latter can support leadership development and transformation at the
individual, group, organization, and societal levels. Written in
the most reader-friendly manner with plenty of practical tools,
this book will be especially useful for social change agents, OD
practitioners, coaches, consultants, and individuals interested in
their own personal growth.”
—Tojo Thatchenkery, PhD, coauthor of Appreciative Intelligence and
Professor and Director, Organization Development and Knowledge
Management Program, George Mason University
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