Jacqueline Stavros
Jacqueline M. Stavros is an American academic, management consultant and author. Her work focuses on Appreciative Inquiry. She is a professor at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. She is the author of Practicing Organization Development.
Early life and education
Stavros grew up in the metro-Detroit area of Michigan and began her career in the high-tech and automotive industries.
Stavros earned her Doctorate in Management from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Her doctoral research, titled Capacity Building Using an Appreciative Approach: A Relational Process of Building Your Organization’s Future. Before completing her doctorate, she obtained an M.B.A. in International Business from Michigan State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in marketing from Wayne State University.
Career
Stavros began her teaching career in 1988 at Lansing Community College. She was also an adjunct professor at Walsh College, Madonna University, and Lawrence Technological University (LTUs). In 2000, she joined the faculty full-time at LTU’s College of Business and Information Technology. In 2006, she was appointed Director of the DBA Program.
In 2013, Stavros was awarded Lawrence Technological University Inaugural Presidential Colloquium.
Stavros is a founder of the SOAR Institute and co-founder of the Conversations Worth Having (CWH) Institute and Institute for Just Outcomes Through Conversations.
She is an associate of the Taos Institute and Center for Appreciative Inquiry, and Advisor for David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry. She is Faculty Affiliate/Advisor for Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, Weatherhead School of Management, CASE University.
Research and scholarly works
Stavros's research focuses on appreciative inquiry, positive organizational scholarship, strategic change, and strengths-based approaches to innovation and engagement. Her works include Practicing Organization Development, Learning to SOAR: Creating Strategy That Inspires Innovation and Engagement and Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement, along with Appreciative Inquiry Handbook for Leaders in Change, The Thin Book of SOAR, Dynamic Relationships, and Practicing Organization Development.