“Marilee’s work has been a key resource to the World Café since its inception. We’ve used her thinking to help shape dynamic Café dialogues throughout the world, with great success. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is essential reading for those committed to the success of conversations that matter in their professional and personal lives.”

— Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, cofounders, The World Café and coauthors of The World Café: Shaping Our Future Through Conversations That Matter

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“Marilee’s writings are by far the most profound articulation of the power of the question that I’ve come across. It’s true: we live in worlds our questions create.”

— David Cooperrider, Ph.D., coauthor of Appreciative Inquiry and Professor, Reserve, Weatherhead School of Management

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“Change Your Questions, Change Your Life provides powerful, practical guidelines that can make a real difference in all our lives. Peter Drucker once told me, ‘The leader of the past knew how to tell, the leader of the future will know how to ask.’ That’s exactly what Marilee is so good at showing us how to do.”

— Marshall Goldsmith, author of The Leader of the Future and Coaching for Leadership. (From the Foreword to the book).

“In Congress or the physics lab, I have tried to develop the important skill of asking myself the tough questions, framed in a way that they can be answered constructively. Marilee Adams’ enlightening new book teaches, in a clever, readable way, techniques for asking the right questions so we can achieve preferred outcomes in our professions, friendships, and personal lives.”

— U.S. Congressman Rush Holt

“Marilee is smarter than anyone I know about asking the questions that really matter.”

— Lillian Brown, author of Your Public Best and The Polished Politician, named “one of 100 most influential PR people of the century” by PR Week

“Highly engaging. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life shows not only how QuestionThinking can create more productive and humane workplaces, but also gives readers an exciting new approach for becoming happier and more effective in every area of their lives.”

— Cary Cherniss, Ph.D. coauthor of The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace and co-chair of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations

“Transformation, for individuals or organizations, begins with new questions. Marilee Adams gives us simple yet incredibly powerful tools for finding our way to questions that can change our lives.”

— Myron Rogers, Coauthor, A Simpler Wa

“This book is great. I couldn’t put it down! It clearly communicates how the questions that we ask ourselves and others determine our results—including in sales. I am strongly recommending Change Your Questions, Change Your Life to everyone who takes my sales courses.”

— Jacques Werth, coauthor of High Probability Selling

“This book may cause organizational leaders to take another look at their lists of competencies. If QuestionThinking isn’t already there, it may be time to go back to the drawing board. Marilee demonstrates why this capacity is absolutely essential to organizational success and how easily it can be acquired.”

— Beverly Kaye, Ph.D., coauthor, Love ’Em or Lose ’Em

“I read this book cover to cover twice. I had valuable insights each time! It helped me change some of the processes by which I attempt to understand and cooperate with nature. I also thought about how useful it would be for politicians and diplomats to use Dr. Adams’ questioning methodologies. It could make our world a safer place.”

— David Pensak, Ph.D., Chief Computer Scientist, E.I. DuPont de Nemour