Marilee Adams

Marilee Adams, Ph.D. is an award-winning author and pioneer in the fields of inquiry-based coaching, leadership and organizational culture.

She is CEO/Founder of the Inquiry Institute, a solutions and performance-focused company providing consulting, coaching, training, and eLearning. She is an affiliate instructor for Weatherhead Executive Education at CaseWesternReserve University and a former adjunct professor of Leadership at American University.

Marliee is faculty for the Institute for Life Coach Training, an ACC with ICF, and a Fellow at the Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding Graduate University. 

Marilee’s published works include Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Results (4thEdition; Berrett-Koehler, 2022), Change Your Questions, Change Your Life Workbook: Master Your Mindset with Question Thinking, (1st Edition, Berrett-Koehler, 2022) and The Art of the Question (John Wiley & Sons, 1998). CYQ is an Amazon #1 Bestseller in Learning in Organizations and Business and has sold over 400,000 copies in 22 languages.

Marilee’s book chapters include “With Our Questions We Make the World,” co-authored with David Cooperrider and Marge Schiller in Advances in Appreciative Inquiry. Marilee works and speaks in the private and public sectors, including at a Gathering for the Inner Development Goals of the U.N.