Mike Merriam
Chief Evolutionary Officer
About the Instructor
Mike is the author of the #1 Best Selling book Closer Than You Think: Six Fundamental Questions to Ignite Your Personal Evolution, and is the Founder & CEO of Appreciative Intelligence Inc., where he leads organizations and communities to embed Appreciative Inquiry in ways that lead to enhanced conversations designed to facilitate a flourishing culture.
For individuals who desire more from life, Mike has distilled the essence of large system transformation down to the individual level, and is revolutionizing the personal growth and development industry. His Online Courses and Igniting Evolution Mastermind group are featured at www.personalevolutionplan.com
For organizations and communities, Mike facilitates whole-system, strengths-based, rapid change, through the use of Appreciative Inquiry summits and leadership training/consulting. He's been invited to work with some of the leading facilitators of this method, with clients that include The United Nations, The U.S. Department of the Navy, Clark, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Fairmont Minerals, Fathom Digital Marketing, Fortec Medical, The Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Initiative, and many more.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan referred to Appreciative Inquiry as “the best large-group planning methodology in the world today.”
To contact Mike, please visit www.mikemerriam.com or email mike@mikemerriam.com
mike@mikemerriam.com
In this quick course, you'll discover the Unique Strengths that are the building blocks that define and lead you to be at your best.
When scientists, including Dr. Martin Seligman (the father of Positive Psychology) reviewed the classic works of of literature across religions and philosophies, they discovered the same Virtues existed across all of the great works. In fact they discovered Six Virtues, including:
- Wisdom
- Courage
- Humanity
- Justice
- Temperance
- Transcendence
Within each of these Virtues there exists strong Character Strengths. Twenty-four to be exact.
In this course, you'll take a Strength Survey, and receive a personalized report detailing all of your Character Strengths (Unique Strengths) in order, as well as learn:
- A new framework for seeing yourself and your value to the world
- What your top strengths are and why
- What your middle strengths are and why
- What your lesser strengths are and why
- How you can use your top strengths to develop your lesser strengths
- How you can deploy all of your strengths to build upon your virtues