Suresh Srivastva
Founder (Method founders & authors)
Why they matter for gatherings
Suresh Srivastva is a founder known for developing methods like Appreciative Inquiry and the 4-D Cycle. He has authored 11 books focused on facilitation and organizational change.
His methods provide structured approaches for fostering collaborative dialogue and envisioning positive futures. Facilitators may find his established techniques useful for designing inclusive forward-looking gatherings.
His work includes Appreciative Inquiry methods such as the 4-D Cycle and SOAR Summit frameworks.
Here is how those methods work in practice.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
Appreciative Future Search / SOAR Summit
Appreciative Inquiry (core 4-D, non-summit)
Appreciative Inquiry 4-D Cycle (standalone)
And here is where you can watch them run.
Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
How gatherings across every category score
Authority profile
Six pillars, each scored 0 to 100 from published work and independent verification. A research signal, not an endorsement.
Evidence and receipts
Sources
Grounded in: people_merged, console_people, people_verification.
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