Roberta Peirick

Roberta Peirick,   is a collaborative consultant with Dialogs for Business. She is passionate about working with people and organizations in strategic change, collaboration and leadership development while affirming the human heart and social systems that faciliate change and growth. Her work focuses on strength based approaches with companies such as Nestle, Chiquita Brands, the Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis, the American Dietetic Association and many other organizations. She is engaged in long-term work with strategic alliances, leadership development, strategic planning, and virtual teams. Her work integrates appreciative inquiry, organization development and marketing to design customized  initiatives, conversations and partnerships. She has extensive experience in working nationally with health-care, large food companies, the nutrition industry and strategic alliances.

Roberta earned a Master of Science  in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and a Master of Arts in Marketing from Webster University. She has presented “Positively Making a Difference in Leadership” at the American Dietetic Association Annual Conference in 2005 and co-facilitated ” Advancing the Practice of Appreciative Inquiry: Body, Mind and Spirit” at the 2006 OD Network Annual Conference in San Francisco.

 Roberta  serves as the Managing Partner for Appreciative Inquiry Consulting and on the Professional Development: Leadership Institute  Task Force for the American Dietetic Association.  She is married with two children and  lives in St. Louis.