David L. Cooperrider is a distinguished university professor at Case Western Reserve University and holds two chaired professorships there. He is the founder and faculty director of the Fowler Cent...view moreDavid L. Cooperrider is a distinguished university professor at Case Western Reserve University and holds two chaired professorships there. He is the founder and faculty director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit and is the honorary chairman of Champlain College's David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry. He has served as an advisor to prominent individuals like Bill Clinton, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, and Jimmy Carter and companies such as Johnson&Johnson, Keurig Green Mountain Coffee, Apple, Verizon, McKinsey, the US Navy, and the UN Global Compact.view less