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Flourishing Leadership Institute designs and facilitates high-purpose, large-scale collaborations using the latest research in Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Psychology, Design Thinking, High-Purpose Leadership, and Positive Organizational Design. We help organizations and communities to identify their strengths and engage with their purpose, to create a shared vision of a flourishing future, using the 4-D cycle of Appreciative Inquiry. We have partnered with the leading experts in Appreciative Inquiry, Mindfulness, and Positive Organizational Change to bring the very best resources and tools to today's business and community leaders.

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AIM2Flourish, a program of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management - Case Western Reserve University, is the world’s first higher-education curriculum incorporating the UN Sustainable Development Goals and "Business as an Agent of World Benefit" - our words for positive and profitable business. Using the UN Global Goals as their lens, students research and identify a positive business innovation and interview a business leader about it. Their stories live on the AIM2Flourish.com platform as sources of inspiration for others.

The AIM2Flourish team supports educators around the world by providing videos, classroom presentations, monthly newsletters, and other materials.

AIM2Flourish starts in the classroom, when students learn from their professor about the strengths-based Appreciative Inquiry approach developed at the Weatherhead School of Management, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or Global Goals. Then, students leave the classroom to conduct an in-person interview with a business leader, write a story about a positive and profitable business innovation, and publish it on AIM2Flourish.com. As of June 2019, business students worldwide have published more than 2,000 inspiring stories about positive and profitable business innovation.

Students experience “Do Good, Do Well” leadership first-hand through conversations with business leaders and publishing their innovation stories on AIM2Flourish.com.

Student feedback shows that the AIM2Flourish assignment positively changes students’ mindsets about business’ goal of being the best in the world to being the best for the world. Students report that the AIM2Flourish assignment changes how they feel about their own potential to be positive leaders. In addition, several AIM2Flourish students have received job offers, internships, and even a board position as a direct outcome of their AIM2Flourish experience.

In 2017, we celebrated the best-of-the-best stories and recognized students, professors, and business leaders with the first annual 2017 Flourish Prizes at the June 2017 Fourth Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. We continue to announce and celebrate the Flourish Prizes with a global online celebration every Spring.

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Case Western Reserve University is a private institution that was founded in 1826. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 5,433 (fall 2020), its setting is urban, and the campus size is 267 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Case Western Reserve University's ranking in the 2022 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #42. Its tuition and fees are $54,020.

Case Western Reserve University is known for its world class research, but with more than 200 student organizations, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved outside the classroom, too. The Case Western Spartans varsity teams compete in the Division III University Athletic Association. The Greek system, which stresses a commitment to on-campus and community service, involves about one third of students. The campus is located about 20 minutes from downtown Cleveland, where students have free access to a handful of downtown museums like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Great Lakes Science Center. On campus, freshmen live in one of four themed residential communities, which are called Cedar, Juniper, Magnolia and Mistletoe. All students are invited to the annual SpringFest, a collection of music, carnival games and activities that is the largest student-run event on campus.

Case Western Reserve University boasts a broad range of top-rated specialty graduate programs, like its health law curriculum at the School of Law. The university also has renowned offerings in biomedical engineering at the School of Engineering and nonprofit management at the Weatherhead School of Management. In addition to its suburban campus, the school owns University Farm, a 400-acre plot of land about 10 miles from campus where students research and take courses in biology, ecology and art. Notable alumni include former U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich and Craig Newmark, creator and namesake of Web site Craigslist.

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At the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, future leaders are built for the advancement of business and society through innovative curriculum that infuses business with analytics, technology and design thinking. Learn concepts from world-class faculty with industry experience and gain the skills to be competitive for in-demand positions upon graduation.

The Weatherhead School of Management proudly embraces a student-centered culture of excellence, promoting collaboration, inclusion and diversity.  The Weatherhead School of Management is a place where innovation, entrepreneurship and critical thinking come together to inspire big ideas and take careers to the next level. More than 1,400 students study in 17 graduate and seven undergraduate programs. Weatherhead is home to business concepts taught and practiced around the world. Groundbreaking principles were developed here by our faculty that shape the way people around the world lead and manage their companies including Appreciative Inquiry, Emotional Intelligence, Flourishing Enterprise, Intentional Change Theory and Manage by Designing.

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The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit exists to create a world where business can prosper, human beings can flourish and nature can thrive. The Fowler Center was established in 2009, with the timely and generous gift of Chuck and Char Fowler. Originally named the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, the donation launched the inquiry into Business as an Agent of World Benefit initiative, started in 2002, to a new level of priority, scale, and scope as an interdisciplinary center of excellence. The Fowler Center's aim is clear: to build on and leverage the legacy and to create the finest research, education, and applied center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit in the world.

The Weatherhead School of Management proudly embraces a student-centered culture of excellence, promoting collaboration, inclusion and diversity.  The Weatherhead School of Management is a place where innovation, entrepreneurship and critical thinking come together to inspire big ideas and take careers to the next level. More than 1,400 students study in 17 graduate and seven undergraduate programs. Weatherhead is home to business concepts taught and practiced around the world. Groundbreaking principles were developed here by our faculty that shape the way people around the world lead and manage their companies including Appreciative Inquiry, Emotional Intelligence, Flourishing Enterprise, Intentional Change Theory and Manage by Designing.