Jackie Stavros is a professor in the College of Business and Information Technology at Lawrence Technological University and an Appreciative Inquiry Advisor with the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry. She is recognized for her creation of SOAR, a positive approach to strategic thinking, planning, and leading. Stavros has more than thirty years of leadership, strategic planning, and change management experience, and she is the coauthor of seven books, including Conversations Worth Having and Thin Book of SOAR.