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Diana Whitney, PhD, has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Diana is the Founder and President Emerita of Corporation for Positive Change, where they have been working since 1995. Diana is also a Co-Founder and Director Emerita at Taos Institute since 1991. Diana has authored books for Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. and The McGraw Hill Companies. Additionally, they co-founded Appreciative Inquiry Consulting and worked as a Management Consultant at Hay Associates. Diana has also served as a Sr. Organization Development Consultant at Sperry Univac, Advisor at United Religion Initiative, and Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook University.
Diana Whitney PhD attended Temple University and obtained their PhD in Communication in 1979. Prior to that, they completed their high school education from Kennett Consolidated High School between 1962 and 1966.
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The Taos Institute
The Taos Institute is a community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes essential for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value. We are a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to exploring, developing and disseminating ideas and practices that promote creative, appreciative and collaborative processes in families, communities and organizations around the world. Social constructionist theory and practice locates the source of meaning, value and action in the relational connection among people. It is through our social and relational processes that we construct the world. We achieve our educational ends through conferences, workshops, publications, a PhD program, certificate programs, distance learning programs, newsletters, and web-based offerings. We work at the interface between the scholarly community and societal practitioners from communities of mental health, social work, counseling, organizational change, education, community building, gerontology, healthcare and more. We develop and explore the ways in which scholarly research can enrich professional practices, and practices can stimulate scholarly inquiry.