 Jack Ricchiuto
We're much appreciative of the wisdom and joy you've added to our community. It is a true pleasure to work with you. Nationally focused Washington DC based Environmental Leadership Program Executive Director, Kimberly Roberts
Jack is a writer teaching people how to have the kinds of conversations that have the power to create a future different from the past. His clients are leaders, organizations, and communities striving for new approaches to leadership, strategic planning, project management, and community engagement.
For over 30 years, Jack has been engaging the tools of workshops, facilitation, and coaching, independently and in collaboration with international and national consulting firms. Inspired by his 7 books, Jack's craft spans 24 industries and a variety of urban, rural, and virtual communities. One of his clients recently introduced Jack to a group of other national leaders with, "I could say a lot about the importance of Jack's groundbreaking work and his great books, but we have him here for one reason: we like him."
Jack's books and blogs further develop the Core Principles by which he works. Jack's seminal work on strengths-based leadership, Appreciative Leadership, continues to be the basis for the culture of Chicago-based company US Cellular into the thriving business $3.8 billion business it is today. It is also the focus for developing the top US environmental leaders and innovators.
Jack has worked with all levels and functions of groups in Aerospace, Architecture, Automotive, Bio Tech, Communications, Consulting, Consumer Products, Commercial Products, Community Development, Design/Build Firms, Economic Development, Education, Sustainability, Finance, Government, Health Care, Industrial, Information Technology, Internet Startups, Leadership Development, Legal & Accounting, Manufacturing, Marketing, Non-Profit Services, Publishing/Media. He has recently been named as one of the top 10 experts in Social Network sciences in the world. See 8 of his client stories
Collaborative Creativity (1997) suggests that creativity is an ability that can be cultivated and that innovation is more possible when we approach it as a collaboration. Accidental Conversations (2002) is a look at organization and community development from the lens of the new sciences including quantum physics, ecology, complexity and chaos sciences. Its theme is that when we have freedom in our connectivity, the best things in life happen unplanned.
Project Zen (2003) explores best project management practices from the three core Zen principles of interdependence, impermanence, and uniqueness. It's a practical guide to getting any project on time, on target, and on budget. Appreciative Leadership (2005) is a manifesto of 60 principles supporting an appreciative approach to all dimensions of leadership. It is a groundbreaking translation of asset and strengths based approaches, inspired by Appreciative Inquiry.
In Mountain Paths (2006), Jack applies the appreciative approach to core personal growth and development themes including creating focus and passion in your work, creating effective relationships, and making productive use of our time. Conscious Becoming (2007) is a series of meditations on what it means to be conscious in our everyday lives, written in the style of the Tao te Ching. It is based on the observation that conscious people are easier to work with, live with, love with, and play with. Jack's latest book with co-author George Nemeth, Instructions From The Cook (2008) presents a compelling, simple, and powerful model for building community. His next book due 2009 is Narrative Nexus: The Power of our Stories in the Possibilities of our Connections.
Jack’s work with leaders and organizations focuses on issues including strategic planning, executive and life coaching, project management coaching, leadership development, organization development, board effectiveness, innovation management, and social network development. His community engagement work that focuses on economic and community development and capacity building is inspired by world-wide practice methodologies such as Open Space Technology, A Small Group, World Cafe, and Appreciative Inquiry.
Jack’s undergraduate degree is from John Carroll University (1974) and graduate degree from Goddard College, Vermont (1980). In his early training in his 20's, he was mentored by the pioneers in American, European, and Japanese models of personal growth and development. He continues teaching and curriculum design with undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctorate programs in colleges and universities including Kent State University, Vanderbilt University, and UC Berkeley.
Jack is a mentor with the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and acts as content and process expert to other national consulting firms including the Cobalt Group, the Capacity Institute, and the Rallus Group.
Jack has written for local and national publications including Smart Business and Projects@Work magazines and he has been quoted in Entrepreneur Magazine and Harvard Business Review. He continues to coach and mentor writers and book self-publishers.
Brief version of Jack's Bio
Jack Ricchiuto / rik-'u-to
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- Phone / 216.373.7475 (EST)
- Email / jack(at)designinglife(dot)com
- Twitter / consciousjack
- Twitwall / http://tinyurl.com/6pgwt3
- Skype / jackricchiuto
- Address / 1020 Kenilworth Avenue Cleveland OH 44113
- Life & Learning Passions / Travel, writing, cooking, photography, music & the arts, meditation, yoga, tai chi, golf, new technologies, Web 2.0, all manners of design, intentional communities, storytelling, fly fishing
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