"Seeking the Common Values of Successful Social Change Leadership" is an outcome of the cooperative inquiry (CI) on "Successful Social Change Leading and Its Values: Discovery Through Cooperative Inquiry" This cooperative inquiry uses the ideas, reflections and actions of eight social change leaders to research and learn about the question: What makes social change leadership successful and what values are held in common across such diverse leaders and organizations? A major outcome for the inquiry was expanding our understanding of the role for relationship, and its application to reflective activities, as well as more visible leadership communication actions. This expanded role for relationship, supported by important operating values, is useful to public coalition efforts, staff team work, and self-reflection. A second outcome was the production of a pilot communication project providing multi-media methods and stories of achieving social change.
