Appreciative Inquiry Consultancy
Members of the International Alliance for Appreciative Inquiry (IAAI) also provide organisational development consultancy based on strengths based approaches. For example:
Inspiring Partners
Inspiring Partners help organisations to create the future they desire.
At Inspiring Partners we use different strengths-based activities, add inspiration, and support creativity. This helps people and teams to grow and move forward.
We support organisations to plan and define organisational developmental strategies that promote the creation of high-performance teams, foster improvement processes, optimise organisational resources, and increase competitiveness.
We offer solutions and work in the Spanish Speaking regions.
Examples of Inspiring Partners Appreciative Inquiry Advisory Projects
| LACTALIS Food Service - Valuing the company's origins and laying the foundations to build a common path for the future | ASPAPEL - Define strategic lines of inquiry and design action plans for delivery of new strategy during 2015-2018. | BOOLINO - Motivate and unite the team. Build on existing strengths and carefully integrate new personnel with complementary skills into the team. |
| IL3 (UNIVERSIDAD BARCELONA) – Achieve a more collaborative, transversal, flexible, and co-led organisation. | CAPSIDE - Celebrate how Capside got to where it had and take use the accumulated learnings to build the desired future. | Town of CATALUÑA - Promote an action plan (through citizen movements) to promote and achieve better democracy. |
| P4 OGILVY - Maintaining unity and cohesion with customers and enable continuous improvement. | FOSS – identify current best practices and involve the team in consolidation of practices and choosing which practices to keep and which to develop. | NARANJAS TORRES - Create a more participatory organizational culture, define strategic plans and gain commitment to achieving them. |
| NOVA INNOVACIÓ - Promote transition workshops for change (with young people) focusing on social transformation | ||
Alder Advice
Alder Advice are a group of independent professionals who are committed to using strengths based approaches to enable improvements in the adult social care, children’s social care, health, and housing sectors.
We all share a common value base and work together across Britain as specialist advisers.
Our mission is to help people who need support to achieve wellbeing to live the lives that they choose and to overcome the inequalities that they, all too frequently, experience and we are proud to use Appreciative Inquiry approaches to help us deliver our mission.
Examples of Alder Advice Appreciative Inquiry Projects
| Apr 2023 to June 2025 – Portsmouth City Council - Appreciative Inquiry into the development of strength based practice to improve lives. | Mar to Sept 2023 – NHS NW London ICB - Appreciative Evaluation of the North-West London Pilot Keyworker Service to inform the future approach | Jan to May 2023 – Bridgend CBC – Strengths-based inquiry into opportunities to support adults with learning disabilities to live their best lives. |
| Nov 2022 to Apr 2025 – Bury Council – Towards Independence Strengths-based Reassessment Programme- Adults with learning disabilities with complex needs. | June to Oct 2022 – Bury Council – Strengths-based inquiry into opportunities to support adults with learning disabilities to live their best lives. | Aug to Dec 2021 – Yorkshire and Humberside ADASS – Appreciative inquiry into learning from COVID response to improve Adult Social Carees post COVID. |
| Mar to Sept 2021 Essex Social Care Academy -Trained all Essex Adult Social Care Managers to use “Emotional Touchpoints” technique during supervision. | Mar 2021 - Bedford Council - Strengths-based training to social services older people’s, hospital discharge, physical & learning disability, and safeguarding staff. | Feb 2019 to June 2020 – Barnet LBC - Strengths-based inquiry to identify/appraise opportunities to improve effectiveness of the Barnet Learning Disability Service |
| Sept 2019- Mar 2020 – Cardiff Council - Strengths Based Inquiry to identify opportunities to support adults with learning disabilities to live their best lives. | Apr 2018 - Bridgewater Com-munity Healthcare NHSFT - Asset-based approaches training as part of the local Social Leader-ship Programme. | Mar to July 2018 – United Response – Appreciative Inquiry into Torfaen outreach service for people with complex learning disability and additional needs. |
