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Focus on pro-social success or antisocial missteps in diversity/inclusion? This work shares the effort to explore strength-based thinking versus deficit-based thinking as the ethos for directing diversity and inclusion. Appreciative inquiry (AI) poses a subtle, compelling, sea-changing query for the diversity and inclusion practitioners, critical thinkers, consultants, and leaders. In light of the growing interests in positive psychology, does a more efficacious path to inclusion exist? Can we find a new orthodoxy in a different approach for achieving inclusive results and pro-social behavior in human systems?

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Dr. Deat LaCour, an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and scholar/practitioner working in Applied Behavioral and Social Science. He speaks, lectures, researches and creates solutions for human systems challenges for global clients. Dr. LaCour advocates for critical thinking, shifting one´s worldview and expanding perception for growth.

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