Appreciative Inquiry® Consultant Training
Become an agent of positive change in organizations
Enhance your skills and increase your income by adding a powerful methodology to your professional practice: Appreciative Inquiry® (AI).
Today, many coaches and consultants want to support not only individuals, but also groups, teams, and entire organizations—and even communities, cities, and institutional systems.
Appreciative Inquiry® addresses this need by offering you a unique and deeply human approach to collective change.
This approach, already used by companies such as Nokia, McDonald’s, NASA, British Airways, Cap Gemini, and Ernst & Young, as well as by the Red Cross and Caritas, can also be applied on a large scale: it has been implemented in entire cities and communities such as Cleveland (United States), as well as in several European municipalities and projects—for example, in Brussels (the CALICO project) and in participatory neighborhoods in Flanders and Sweden, mobilizing citizens, institutions, and associations around positive, shared visions.
In France, the approach is becoming increasingly widespread: it is used in public organizations, hospitals, and healthcare facilities, as well as in collective development initiatives that seek to build shared and inspiring visions.
Wherever it is implemented, Appreciative Inquiry brings about lasting transformation in the culture, cooperation, and performance of human systems by bringing out the best in everyone and harnessing collective intelligence.
Appreciative Inquiry®: Change Through a Positive Approach
Appreciative Inquiry® is based on two key principles:
- Mobilizing the collective intelligence of a human system.
- Building on existing successes to bring forth a shared and inspiring vision of the future.
Rather than focusing on what’s wrong, Appreciative Inquiry® explores what brings life, what inspires, and what’s already working well, in order to strengthen and amplify it.
It is a deeply constructive approach that brings forth the energy of possibility.
A Comprehensive Transformation Methodology
Throughout the training, you will learn to master the 5D cycle:
- Define: establish the framework, clarify the objectives and scope of the intervention.
- Discover: identify the system’s strengths, successes, and resources.
- Dream: collaboratively build an inspiring vision of the future.
- Design: work together to envision the structures, processes, and initiatives needed to realize this dream.
- Deliver: anchor the transformation for the long term through implementation and a shared culture.
This approach will enable you to effectively support SMEs, large corporations, local governments, or even entire cities in their change processes.
Who is it for?
This training is intended for:
- Certified coaches or those in training,
- Organizational development consultants,
- HR leaders or managers in charge of transformation,
- Coaching professionals seeking to expand their scope of practice and increase their income.
What This Training Will Offer You as a Coach
Training in Appreciative Inquiry® is much more than just learning a new method: it’s about changing your perspective on change itself.
This training will enable you to:
- Expand your scope of action: work at the team, organizational, or system level.
- Strengthen your credibility with organizations through a proven approach to cultural transformation.
- Gain access to new professional opportunities: consulting, facilitation, or change management assignments.
- Increase your impact as a coach by guiding your clients toward collective success and lasting cohesion.
- Set yourself apart in the market through a rare and sought-after specialization used by leading international organizations.
- Experience a transformative human journey: this approach enriches your coaching style, your confidence in your clients’ resources, and your ability to bring out the best in human systems.
By mastering Appreciative Inquiry®, you become not only a coach, but a catalyst for positive change, capable of revealing strengths, uniting teams, and helping organizations grow around an inspiring vision.
Every organization possesses strengths and successes that give it life and effectiveness; Appreciative Inquiry® chooses to build on these successes rather than focus on what isn’t working—a powerful tool for facilitating change, based on collective intelligence and active listening.
Training Objectives
- Facilitate collective change initiatives in organizations of all sizes,
- Create and lead interventions based on strengths, talents, and a shared vision,
- Embody the Appreciative Inquiry® approach—an attitude of openness, admiration, and curiosity that serves as a true catalyst for transformation,
- Become a certified Appreciative Inquiry® consultant, recognized by the International Coaching Institute.
Training Program
- Understand the fundamentals of Appreciative Inquiry® and its multidisciplinary roots.
- Discover and practice the complete cycle of 5D.
- Learn to craft powerful appreciative questions.
- Design tailored interventions based on the context: team coaching, strategic planning, leadership, team cohesion, innovation…
- Experiment with the approach on real-life cases while receiving coaching and supervision.
Why Appreciative Inquiry Works
The 5 fundamental principles of Appreciative Inquiry®
1. Social constructionism: Reality is co-constructed through our dialogues.
2. Principle of Simultaneity: Change begins as soon as we ask new questions.
3. Poetic Principle: Organizations are like living stories that we can rewrite.
4. Anticipatory principle: Our vision of the future influences our present actions.
5. Positive Principle: Energy and motivation are the drivers of sustainable change.
Appreciative Inquiry®: A Powerful Catalyst for Large-Scale Transformation
The Appreciative Inquiry® is not merely a facilitation or group coaching method—it is a strategic tool for profound transformation of human systems.
Based on the belief that organizations evolve in the direction of the questions they ask themselves, it enables sustainable, comprehensive, and inspiring change at the level of a team, a company, a community… or even a country.
Its systemic and positive approach acts as a catalyst for trust, creativity, and engagement.
Rather than correcting dysfunctions, it channels energy toward strengths, successes, and shared aspirations—thereby creating a collective movement for transformation.
Major international companies, entire cities, and public institutions have already experienced its unifying power: Nutrimental Food in Brazil saw its profits grow by 300% after implementing an appreciative approach; the city of Cleveland transformed its community dynamics; and European projects, such as CALICO in Brussels, have redefined how local policies are co-created with citizens.
Appreciative Inquiry® demonstrates that sustainable change does not arise from problem-solving, but from valuing the best of what already exists—a profoundly human approach that brings out collective intelligence and unleashes the transformative potential of systems.
The benefits demonstrated by research
- increases employee engagement, collaboration, and satisfaction,
- stimulates innovation and organizational performance,
- strengthens trust, cohesion, and shared leadership,
- promotes well-being at work and the quality of relationships.
Real-world applications around the world
- Healthcare: Improved quality and safety in hospitals (PMC study, 2022).
- Businesses: 300% increase in profits after implementing Appreciative Inquiry® at Nutrimental Food, Brazil.
- Cities and institutions: Community projects such as Imagine Chicago have mobilized thousands of participants around a shared vision.
A dynamic and experiential approach to teaching
The training alternates between theoretical sessions, guided practical exercises, and hands-on experimentation.
You will personally experience collective intelligence and develop your group facilitation skills.
Each participant leaves with:
- Practical tools (interview guides, intervention frameworks, shared vision templates),
- Real-time supervision,
- And the opportunity to put what you’ve learned into practice immediately the very next day after the training.
“The great promise of Appreciative Inquiry® is that it generates a self-sustaining momentum toward the realization of the values it embodies.”
By joining this program…
You’ll discover a more vibrant, more human, and more effective way to facilitate change.
You’ll learn to transform organizations not by fixing what isn’t working, but by amplifying what’s already working—by unleashing collective strengths, talents, and enthusiasm.
That is the essence of Appreciative Inquiry®: ccreating the future by building on the best of the present.
Dates and Format
Duration: 2 months
- 5 evening webinars (8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.), including one post-training session.
- 1 in-person day in Paris to experience collective intelligence firsthand.
Dates: from May 28, 2026, to September 3, 2026
Total: 22 hours of training and practice.
Rates
For individuals who have not been trained at the ICI:
Standard rate: €1,880 net
Preferential rate: €1,580 net (valid through March 31, 2026)
Payment can be made in 4 monthly installments of €495 net (total: €1,980 net)
For coaches trained or currently in training at ICI:
Price: €1,550 net
Preferential rate: €1,250 net (valid through March 31, 2026)
A preferential rate may be available as part of a package with the ICI MasterCoach program (contact our advisors for more information).
For companies:
Corporate rate: €2,450 net
Contact et inscription :
For any additional information, please feel free to contact us by phone at 01 40 70 99 25 🇫🇷 or +41 22 510 88 50 🇨🇭, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Official Certification
Appreciative Inquiry® Consultant
Awarded by the International Coaching Institute (ICI), certified Qualiopi (No. QUA23030036) , registered under NDA 11756720275 and Eduqua under D-Certificate: 124481
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