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DAVID COOPERRIDER, PHD
Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Weatherhead School of Management, is best known for his development of the theory and practice of appreciative inquiry (AI) as it relates to corporate strategy, change leadership, and positive organizational scholarship. He is also a founder and chairman of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, which proposes that many global issues today are a chance for organizations to embrace social entrepreneurship and eco‑innovation, and find new sources of value.
JOHN RATEY, MD
is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He most recently authored the bestselling books, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain and A User’s Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention and the Four Theaters of the Brain (2000) which translates how neuroscience affects emotions, behavior, and overall psychology.
SUNNY STOUT ROSTRON, DPROF, MA
is an executive coach and consultant, with a wide range of experience in leadership and management development, business strategy, and executive coaching. She is the author of seven books including Accelerating Performance, Powerful New Techniques to Develop People (Kogan Page 2002), and Business Coaching Wisdom and Practice, Unlocking the Secrets of Business Coaching (Johannesburg: Knowledge Resources 2009). Her new book, Business Coaching International: Transforming Individuals and Organizations (London: Karnac) is available in September 2009.
ANTHONY GRANT, PHD
is recognized as a pioneer of coaching psychology and established and directs the world’s first Coaching Psychology Unit at the School of Psychology, Sydney University. Dr. Grant has coached many of Australia’s leading executives and CEOs and has delivered many thousands of hours of coach training. He has conducted extensive coaching research, including randomized controlled outcome studies and has co‑written and co‑edited five books on evidence‑based coaching. His books have been translated into eight languages
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