About Deborah Kirby

MICRO-BIO

  • Deb is the founder of Imaginal Wisdom (a registered trademark) and creator of Imaginal Metaphor Inquiry, a process helping organizations liberate fixed ways of thinking to create possibilities, actions, and outcomes neither previously conceived nor...More

EXPERIENCE

  • Imaginal Wisdom
    • Consultant
    • Founder
    • November 2017 to Present
  • California Institute of Integral Studies
    • Academic Writing Coach
    • School of Consciousness and Transformation
    • January 2014 to Present

EDUCATION

  • California Institute of Integral Studies
    • Ph.D.
    • September 2013 to December 2017

    Earned a Ph.D. in Transformative Studies. The dissertation, titled The Imaginal Wisdom of Metaphor: A Theoretical Exploration of Pictorial Metaphor as a Generative Source to Induce Organizational Transformation, developed the concept of using metaphoric drawings to emerge new possibilities, actions, and outcomes from an organization's existing culture as well as sustainable solutions missing from many change initiatives.

  • Illinois State University
    • M.S. in Organizational Development
    • May 1979 to May 1981

    Studies focused on interpersonal and group dynamics in the workplace.

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