About Amanda Trosten-Bloom

Amanda Trosten-Bloom

Amanda Trosten-Bloom

Principal,
Corporation for Positive Change

Principal & Founder,
Rocky Mountain Center for Positive Change

Co-Author,
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry and Appreciative Leadership

Amanda Trosten-Bloom is a Principal with both the Rocky Mountain Center for Positive Change and Corporation for Positive Change – local and global consultancies that gets results applying the principles and advancing the practices of Appreciative Inquiry and related transformational processes. A widely acclaimed consultant, master trainer, energizing speaker, and pioneer in the use of Appreciative Inquiry for high engagement, whole system change, she builds results oriented partnerships with organizational and community leaders and teams in support of strategic planning, culture change and organizational excellence. Working across sectors in business, nonprofit and government organizations, her clients have included: Hewlett-Packard, the Unitarian Universalist Association, IHS, ACT, Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division; National Security Administration; Goddard Space Flight Center, The Denver Foundation, and the Cities of Boulder, Denver and Longmont, CO, and Boulder County, CO. Her work focuses primarily on strength-based change in the areas of culture transformation, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, leadership development, and business process improvement.

Amanda is also co-author of the best-selling book The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change (Berrett-Koehler: 2003 and 2010), considered to be the strongest practical guide to Appreciative Inquiry on the market. Additional publications include Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization (McGraw-Hill, 2010); Appreciative Team Development: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best in Your Team (iUniverse, 2005); the Encyclopedia of Positive Questions – Volume One: Questions to Bring Out the Best at Work (Crown Custom Publishing, 2003 and 2014), and more than a dozen articles and book chapters.

“It’s with great pleasure that I celebrate the launch of the Hong Kong Center for Positive Change. The Center’s founder, Dorothy Tsui, is a consultant of great skill, great intelligence, and great integrity. Her professionalism, courage, warmth and inspiration are sure to catalyze powerful positive change in the organizations that she serves. I anxiously anticipate future collaborations, including workshops and consulting for the Asian market.”

Appreciative Inquiry is the study of what gives life to human systems when they function at their best. This approach to personal change and organization change is based on the assumption that questions and dialogue about strengths, successes, values, hopes, and dreams are themselves transformational.

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

2016-02-03T05:21:41+00:00

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

Appreciative Inquiry is the study of what gives life to human systems when they function at their best. This approach to personal change and organization change is based on the assumption that questions and dialogue about strengths, successes, values, hopes, and dreams are themselves transformational.

Appreciative Inquiry works because it liberates power. It unleashes both individual and organizational power. It brings out the best of people, encourages them to see and support the best of others, and generates unprecedented cooperation and innovation.

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

2016-02-03T05:22:07+00:00

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

Appreciative Inquiry works because it liberates power. It unleashes both individual and organizational power. It brings out the best of people, encourages them to see and support the best of others, and generates unprecedented cooperation and innovation.

Appreciative Inquiry turns command-and-control cultures into communities of discovery and cooperation.

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

 

2016-02-03T05:22:32+00:00

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

 

Appreciative Inquiry turns command-and-control cultures into communities of discovery and cooperation.

Appreciative Inquiry posits that organizations move in the direction of what they consistently ask questions about, and that the more affirmative the questions are, the more hopeful and positive the organizational responses will be.

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

2016-02-03T05:23:01+00:00

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

Appreciative Inquiry posits that organizations move in the direction of what they consistently ask questions about, and that the more affirmative the questions are, the more hopeful and positive the organizational responses will be.

The ultimate paradox of Appreciative Inquiry is that it does not aim to change anything. It aims to uncover and bring forth existing strengths, hopes, and dreams—to identify and amplify the positive core of the organization. In this process, people and organizations are transformed. With Appreciative Inquiry, the focus of attention is on positive potential—the best of what has been, what is, and what might be. It is a process of positive change.

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

2016-02-03T05:23:25+00:00

Diana Whitney, PhD and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

The ultimate paradox of Appreciative Inquiry is that it does not aim to change anything. It aims to uncover and bring forth existing strengths, hopes, and dreams—to identify and amplify the positive core of the organization. In this process, people and organizations are transformed. With Appreciative Inquiry, the focus of attention is on positive potential—the best of what has been, what is, and what might be. It is a process of positive change.

Appreciative Leadership is the relational capacity to mobilize creative potential and turn it into positive power—to set in motion positive ripples of confidence, energy, enthusiasm, and performance—to make a positive difference in the world.

Diana Whitney, PhD, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader

2016-02-03T05:23:48+00:00

Diana Whitney, PhD, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader

Appreciative Leadership is the relational capacity to mobilize creative potential and turn it into positive power—to set in motion positive ripples of confidence, energy, enthusiasm, and performance—to make a positive difference in the world.

Appreciative leaders hold each and every person in positive regard. They look through appreciative eyes to see the best of people. They seek to treat all individuals positively, with respect and dignity, no matter their age, gender, race, religion, or culture—even education or experience. They believe that everyone has positive potential—a positive core of strengths and a passionate calling to be fulfilled—and they seek to bring that forward and nurture it.

Diana Whitney, PhD, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader

2016-02-03T05:24:13+00:00

Diana Whitney, PhD, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader

Appreciative leaders hold each and every person in positive regard. They look through appreciative eyes to see the best of people. They seek to treat all individuals positively, with respect and dignity, no matter their age, gender, race, religion, or culture—even education or experience. They believe that everyone has positive potential—a positive core of strengths and a passionate calling to be fulfilled—and they seek to bring that forward and nurture it.

 

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