Organizational Transformation Through Appreciative Inquiry: Experiences and Reflections on Drenching Processes

This book offers a pivotal concept, model, and tool called ＂Drench＂ that meets the need within organizational transformation to internalize, abide, and sustain the insights, learning, and the energy for change generated during an Appreciative Inquiry (Ai) or any other organization development (OD) process.

Drench is an active, non- action (state of presence) that helps an organization celebrate the discovery of strengths, soak in the dream of transformation, and allow the future to emerge. It facilitates a shift in the organizational consciousness and helps develop a belief in its ability to sustain the transformation. Bringing together field experiences, conceptual understanding, and practical tools, and with a foreword by Dr. David Cooperrider, this book introduces Drench as an addition to the existing 5- D model of Ai. The book is divided into three parts: the first part introduces Drench in the context of organizational transformation through Ai; the second part consists of case studies from our experiences of facilitating organizational transformation; the third part offers a set of practical tools and models that can be combined in a logical as well as intuitive way for deeper results.

Challenging conventional notions of change and development by providing a helpful set of concepts, models and a toolbox for organizational transformation, this is a useful book for change consultants, facilitators and coaches who use OD and/ or Ai for transformation.

Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy has 37 years of professional experience in Human Resources Development, Consulting, Organization Development and Applied Behavioral Science. Sankar is an International Director on the Board of NTL (www.ntl.org) and Director of ChangeWorks (www.changeworksindia.com), a consulting organization based out of Mumbai, India. Sankar has hands-on experience in Organization development, people process implementation, Personal growth, Leadership and team Development, Executive Coaching and Appreciative Inquiry based interventions. He is also a writer having published two books and many articles in peer reviewed journals.

Wasundhara Joshi is a Medical Doctor, Behavioral Scientist, Facilitator, OD Consultant, Coach and Yoga Therapist. She has an MD in Paediatrics following which she pursued an interest in Neonatology. She is a professional member of ISABS (www.isabs.org) and certified in Change Facilitation (Organization Change Facilitation Program), Transformational coaching (www.leadershipthatworks.com) and Appreciative Coaching (www.fielding.edu). She is now a faculty with ’LTW, India’ in their Coaching Certificate Program, Wasundhara has an MSc in Yoga Therapy and is a practicing Yoga Therapist. She specializes in the use of Appreciative Inquiry as a method for both coaching and organization change. She has been engaged by many corporate and social sector organizations for consulting in the field of change management, leadership development, personal growth and executive coaching.