This is the series of slides that were used at the plenary sessions of the First International Conference on Appreciative Inquiry. These slides were developed by David Cooperrider and the conference planning team made up of people from Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, The Weatherhead School of Management, Benedictine University, and NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences.

These slides take you through the 4-D cycle using an AI Summit design. Participants at the conference experienced the AI Summit model focusing on the following topics: Business as an Agent of World Benefit? How Ideally Organized? Practices? Bring Out Best in Human Beings?