Dr. Jacqueline Stavros

College Professor

Buell Building M314
Phone (248) 204-3063
stavros@ltu.edu
jstavros.ltu@comcast.net

Biography

Jackie Stavros possesses sixteen years of strategic planning, marketing, international and training experience. She has traveled to over a dozen countries in Asia, Europe and North America. Jackie has spent the last eight years incorporating Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodologies into her training and consulting work. Appreciative Inquiry is the “art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate and heighten positive potential.” It builds upon the positive core of the organization. She uses this process to work with individuals, teams, divisions and organizations to facilitate strategic change initiatives. She works with executives, managers, staff and line teams and an organization’s stakeholders to collaboratively and creatively help them get organized and focused for profitable growth. Through AI coaching, she helps organizations identify and articulate their UVO (unique value offering). Her clients include ACCI Business System, Fasteners, Inc., General Motors of Mexico, NASA, Tendercare Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Centers, Tuffy Mufflers, United Way and FCI Automotive.

Jackie Stavros is an Associate Professor for the Graduate College of Management, Lawrence Technological University where she teaches and integrates Appreciative Inquiry in her Leading Organizational Change and Strategic Management courses. She also teaches Internet Marketing, and Marketing Strategy and Perspectives in International Business. She has over nine years experience in e-learning from course and curriculum design and development to implementation of blended to online learning programs and environments. She has taught at Madonna University, Walsh College and Michigan State University. As a professor of management, Jackie truly enjoys advising students with their directed studies and career plans.

Her industry work includes automotive, banking, computer software and hardware, education, healthcare, government and professional services. In all her management positions, Jackie reported directly to the president and was responsible for strategic planning, marketing, sales, training, ISO 9000 and QS 9000 projects and international business development activities. She is a charter co-owner of the Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, LLC and a principal in the Corporation for Positive Change. She is currently researching and co-authoring several books and articles, The First Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change (with co-authors David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney), Lifescapes: Visioning for a Preferred Future and Executive Guide to Strategic Transformation (co-author Lynn Kelley). She is co-authoring an article, “Cultivating a Positive Culture Through Appreciative Inquiry”. In 2003, this paper will be presented at the Southwest Academy of Management and the Organization Development Institute. She is co-authoring a case study on an Appreciative Inquiry Summit, “Celebrate the Stories: West Springfield Public Schools”. She has also been invited to serve on an editing team for the new Appreciative Inquiry Workbook Series for Lakeshore Communications. She is editor for Trade Secrets Third Edition.

Jackie has worked extensively with the Michigan Small Business Development Center Network. The MI-SBDC is part of a nation-wide network that provides counseling, training and resources to small-to-medium sized companies. She held positions of certified business counselor, international trade specialist and director of Metro-International Business Development Center. Her experience with business owners included assisting clients in developing strategic business and marketing plans, evaluating financial uses and sources of funding, accessing international markets, setting up global operations and commercializing technologies. Today, she still works with the SBDC network on special projects and training programs for entrepreneurs.

She earned her Executive Doctorate in Management at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Her Dissertation topic was Capacity Building Using An Appreciative Approach: A Relational Process of Building Your Organization’s Future. The focus of the topic is capacity building for an organization reminding you that an organization’s driving force is its people. Her dissertation has been cited in several published books and articles in the Appreciative Inquiry field. Her MBA is in international business from Michigan State University, Eli Broad School of Management and a B.A. degree in marketing from Wayne State University.

Presently, Jackie is a member of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), North American International Trade Educators (NASBITE), Positive Change Core for Appreciative Inquiry and Education, Organization Development Network (ODN) and Organization Development Institute (ODI). She has served for eight years on the Michigan District Export Council (M-DEC) on the National Export Strategy and Marketing and Communications committees to support the United States Export Assistance Centers.

Presently, Jackie is a member of the Michigan District member of the Michigan District Export Council (M-DEC), North American Association of Small Business International Trade Educators (NASBITE) and American Marketing Association (AMA). With M-DEC, she serves on the following committee: National Export Strategy and Marketing and Communications of United States Export Assistance Centers.

Areas of Expertise

• Organizational Change and Appreciative Inquiry
• Strategy (Global, Corporate, Business, and Marketing)
• Organization Development