Appreciative Inquiry Survey: Discovery and Dreams of Past Chapter Presidents

Dr. David Cooperrider, the founder of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology, was the keynote speaker at the Organization of Nurse Leaders of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (ONL of MA & RI, formerly the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives [MONE]) annual meeting in June 2014. This ONL organization has an affiliation agreement with the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). I was being inducted there as the incoming president of ONL of MA & RI. Back in the late 1990s, I had an opportunity to take a certification course in AI from Dr. Cooperrider and have been using this methodology in my nursing career for over a decade in various settings. Several months before this annual meeting, I decided to use the AI framework to conduct an informal survey of the past presidents of ONL/MONE to inform my presidential remarks.