Method Founders & Authors
126 profiled people in this lane, ranked by authority score.
Barbara Benedict Bunker
psychologist and professor (born 1931)
David L. Cooperrider
Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
David Cooperrider
American academic
Jeff Speck
urban planner; author of "Walkable City"
Patrick Lencioni
American writer
Dave Gray
Author, Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Harrison Owen
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Priya Parker
American facilitator, mediator, and author
Tom Atlee
American social/peace/environmental activist/author
Arnold Mindell
American psychologist (1940-2024)
Michael Doyle
Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Ronald Lippitt
born:1914|died:1986|; Lippitt, Ronald, 1914-1986; Lippitt, Ronald, 1914-
Eric Mazur
Dutch physicist
John Buck
Author, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Ted Rau
Author, Practitioner, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Tom Kelley
Author, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
John Heron
Founder (Method founders & authors)
J. Richard Hackman
Author (Method founders & authors)
Michael Porter
Author (Method founders & authors)
Christine Hogan
politician
Paul Axtell
meetings author and practitioner
Peter Block
community and organization development author
Ruth Colvin Clark
American born Educational Psychologist
Sarah Lewis
Appreciative Inquiry practitioner-author
Wayne Nelson
Technology of Participation facilitator-author
Marc Stickdorn
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Marvin Weisbord
Author, Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
David Isaacs
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Tim O'Reilly
Irish-American author and publisher
Nora Bateson
Warm Data Lab creator and systems practitioner
John McKnight
asset-based community development co-founder
Christiana Figueres
Costa Rican diplomat engaged in UN
Jake Knapp
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Dale Hunter
facilitation author-practitioner
Joe Goldblatt
British academic
Patrick Condon
urban design charrette author-practitioner
Ingrid Bens
facilitation skills author-practitioner
Jakob Schneider
Author (Method founders & authors)
Alan Briskin
American writer
Roger Schwarz
Author (Method founders & authors)
Jon Kabat-Zinn
American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine
Etienne Wenger
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Barbara Bunker
artist collective
Tom Devane
change-method author/editor
Dan Roam
Author (Method founders & authors)
Suresh Srivastva
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Otto Scharmer
Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA and founder of the Presencing Institute
Eric Trist
British scientist (1909-1993)
Dave Snowden
Academic, Founder, Practitioner, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Sam Kaner
American printmaker (1924-1990)
Juanita Brown
Academic, Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
James Surowiecki
American journalist
Thomas Malone
collective intelligence scholar and MIT CCI founder
David Straus
Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Robert Rasmussen
Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Diana Leafe Christian
American environmentalist
Jane Suiter
Irish political scientist
Amanda Trosten-Bloom
Appreciative Inquiry author-practitioner
Kay Pranis
Author, Founder, Practitioner, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Adrian Segar
Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Bob Frisch
strategic offsites author and advisor
Braden Kowitz
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Cormac Russell
asset-based community development practitioner-author
Julia Rutherford Silvers
event management body of knowledge author
Bernard Mohr
Appreciative Inquiry Summit author-practitioner
David Van Reybrouck
cultural historian
Billie T. Alban
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Tantek Çelik
American technologist, creator of Microformats.org
Billie Alban
large group intervention author and practitioner
Fred Emery
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Jack Zimmerman
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
David Kelley
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Michael Wilkinson
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Ed Morrison
English rugby union referee
Bill Staples
Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Carolyn Hendriks
Author (Method founders & authors)
Emily Webber
Author (Method founders & authors)
M. Scott Peck
American psychiatrist (1936-2005)
Howard Rheingold
online community and collaboration author
Jo Nelson
Technology of Participation facilitator-author
Laura Spencer
Technology of Participation author-practitioner
Richard McDermott
communities of practice author and consultant
Robert Marshak
American physicist (1916-1992)
Thomas Griffin
Appreciative Inquiry Summit author-practitioner
John Zeratsky
American writer
Sunni Brown
American writer known for her evangelization of the power and value of doodling
Sandra Janoff
Academic, Author, Founder, Trainer, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Peggy Holman
Author, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Jonathan Courtney
American politician
Nancy White
Founder, Author, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
adrienne maree brown
writer
Ruud Janssen
Event Canvas and event design co-creator
Emily Axelrod
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Beverly Wenger-Trayner
communities of practice practitioner-author
Jane Magruder Watkins
Author, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Sharon Villines
Author (Method founders & authors)
Dick Axelrod
Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Bill Lennertz
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Robert W. Jacobs
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Scott Hutcheson
Strategic Doing practitioner-scholar
James Ludema
Appreciative Inquiry Summit author-practitioner
David Gurteen
Author, Founder, Practitioner, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Kathleen Dannemiller
Founder (Method founders & authors)
R. Brian Stanfield
Author, Founder, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Jacqueline Stavros
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Jim Rough
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Birgitt Williams
Founder, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
James Macanufo
Author (Method founders & authors)
Allen Gunn
Aspiration founder and participant-driven event facilitator
Elise Keith
meeting operating system author-practitioner
June Holley
network weaving practitioner-author
Kaliya Young
Internet Identity Workshop co-founder and unconference practitioner
Marcin Gerwin
citizens' assembly practitioner-author
Miriam Subirana
Appreciative Inquiry practitioner-author
Roel Frissen
Event Canvas and event design co-creator
Dorothy Strachan
process design and facilitation author
David Sibbet
Founder, Trainer, Author (Method founders & authors)
Kathie Dannemiller
Academic, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Ria Baeck
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Monica Nissén
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Tenneson Woolf
Practitioner, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Steph Cruchon
Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Maarten Vanneste
meeting architecture author
Nancy Kline
Thinking Environment originator
Tahira Endean
event design and intentional event experience author