MBTI^® Certification Faculty

The instructors for the MBTI^® Certification Program have outstanding skills in a number of fields and are extremely qualified to present engaging and effective training programs.

• Years of Experience. Each trainer has a minimum of 10 years of experience in using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® instrument.
• Proven Expertise. Our faculty members have a broad range of expertise, including specialties in such areas as team performance, leadership development, communication skills, decision making, change management, career counseling, family counseling, learning and teaching styles, and adult learning.
• Outstanding Evaluations. Our faculty members consistently receive outstanding marks in participant evaluations. Each trainer is sensitive to the individual learning styles of participants and is dedicated to seeing that course objectives are met.

MBTI^® Certification faculty members include:

ANDREW N. BELL, LLB, CHARTERED FELLOW FCIPD, has extensive global experience delivering certification programs, training and consulting assignments utilizing The Myers-Briggs Company's suite of instruments. He has delivered MBTI^®, FIRO^®, CPI^® and Strong Interest Inventory Certification Programs for both public and in-house clients and has extensive personal and business experience working with people and organizations across six continents and in more than 50 countries. He has provided consulting and training services to more than 60 organizations and provided executive coaching services to many hundreds of leaders.

Starting as a human resource professional with Unilever in Europe he subsequently acquired extensive business experience as an entrepreneur in Asia and in the corporate world in the U.S.A. From 2010 to 2014 he was VP International for CPP Inc., where he led the successful expansion into new geographies and in building capabilities to meet the needs of global businesses. This included personally delivering the first MBTI, FIRO and CPI Certification Programs in a number of countries including Egypt, Indonesia and Israel. From 2002 to 2010 he ran his own H.R. consulting business based in Singapore, distributing our products in the South East Asia region, and prior to that he worked with Unilever for 23 years, based in Europe, Shanghai and Singapore, becoming SVP Human Resources for the East Asia Pacific region. He is now President of AB Consulting Group, LLC.

On behalf of The Conference Board, Andrew serves as the Strategic Human Resources Center Leader. He is also a Program Director for a range of senior H.R. networks. Current responsibilities include the Emerging Markets H.R. Council [Global] and the Senior H.R. Business Partners Council [U.S.A.]. He has previously served as the Program Director for the Chief Human Resource Officer Council, U.S.A. the Asia Pacific H.R. Council and the Diversity & Work: Life Strategy Council, Asia Pacific. He has had articles published in a range of professional publications and national newspapers and on behalf of The Conference Board he has contributed to a number of research publications, most recently Designing Global Businesses for Innovation & Growth (2015). He has organized, chaired and spoken at many conferences on the MBTI and on a wide range of human resource topics.

Andrew graduated with an LLB degree in Law & Politics from Birmingham University [U.K.] and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development [U.K.]. He lives in California and has Permanent Residency in the U.S.A. & Singapore, with U.K. citizenship.

Certifications and Qualifications

• Faculty Member, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® (MBTI^®) Step I^™ and II^™ Certification Program
• Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation–Behavior^™ (FIRO-B^®) Certification Program Facilitator
• CPI 260^® Certification Program Facilitator
• CPI^™ 434 Certified Practitioner
• Strong Interest Inventory^® Certification Program Facilitator
• BarOn EQ-i 2.0^® Certified Practitioner
• BarOn EQ-i^® 360 Certified Practitioner
• Benchmarks^® 360 Certified Practitioner
• Skillscope^® 360 Certified Practitioner
• MRG 360 Certified Practitioner

SHERRIE HAYNIE, M.Ed., is a coach and performance consultant with expertise in leadership development, strategic planning, and performance management. In her current role as a The Myers-Briggs^® Professional Services Solutions Consultant, Sherrie works with Fortune 500 companies on developing and facilitating organizational development initiatives and team-building interventions.

With a focus on organizational results, Sherrie has worked with executives and senior leadership teams in manufacturing, finance, and customer service. She uses a variety of psychological assessments to assist with the identification of developmental opportunities. When working with organizations, her ultimate goal is to transform workgroups into high-performing teams while solving real-time business challenges.

Sherrie has a master's degree in education from the Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Sherrie is also a credentialed MBTI^® Master Practitioner and a qualified facilitator of The Myers-Briggs^®'s MBTI^® Certification and FIRO^® Certification training programs.

PATRICK L. KERWIN, MBA, NCC, is principal of Kerwin & Associates in San Diego, California, specializing in the development of individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations.

A Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® Master Practitioner, Patrick has over 20 years experience working with corporate, healthcare, education, and non-profit organizations to put the MBTI^® instrument into practice for team building, communication enhancement, change management, stress management, and individual development. He has worked with organizations including Microsoft, Google, Amgen, Heinz, Suncor Energy, Conoco-Phillips, the U.S. Navy, the Air Force Space Command, Monarch Healthcare, the UCSF Center for the Health Professions, Chelan Public Utility District, University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, and Thunderbird School of Global Management. Patrick is also one of a small cadre of faculty who conducts the intensive, four-day MBTI^® Certification Program in the U.S. and Canada.

In addition, Patrick is the author of the just-released book True Type Tales, a collection of real-life stories about type in action in everyday life. He also develops and delivers customized training programs and workshops, including Suncor Energy's Your MBTI^® Leadership Type leadership development training program, Microsoft's MBTI-based Personality Insights corporate-wide training program, and the MBTI^® Optimizing Team Performance team-building program. He is also the author of the fourth-edition Kerwin Values Survey^® online career values assessment.

Patrick is founder and Past-President of SANDAPT, the San Diego chapter of the Association for Psychological Type International. Patrick holds his MBA and Career Counseling Specialist Graduate Certificate from California State University, Long Beach, and is a National Certified Counselor.

MARTA KOONZ, Ph.D., in her role as Professional Services Senior Consultant for The Myers-Briggs Company, Marta draws from nearly three decades of experience in working with teams and team leaders to provide team development training and individual and team leadership coaching services. She has worked in the education sector, with state and local governments, and for corporate and not-for-profit clients across a wide range of industries.

Marta is a credentialed MBTI^® Master Practitioner and a member of the faculty for The Myers-Briggs Company's MBTI^® Certification, FIRO^® Certification, and Strong Certification programs. She is an expert in training design and facilitation and is endorsed by Global Learning Partners as a Certified Dialogue Education Teacher. She is certified by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach and provides volunteer career coaching for Stand Beside Them, an organization that provides free coaching services for U.S. military veterans and their families.

Marta holds a doctoral degree in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, with an emphasis in Jungian and archetypal studies. Marta has presented multiple times at the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies annual conference, been published in the Depth Psychology Alliance online journal and the Personality Type in Depth online journal and lectured on Jungian psychology and typology.

Certifications and Qualifications

• Faculty Member, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® (MBTI^®) Step I^™ and II^™ Certification Program
• MBTI^® Step III^™ Certified Practitioner
• MBTI^® Master Practitioner
• Faculty Member, Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO-B^®) Certification Program
• Faculty Member, Strong Interest Inventory^® Certified Program
• CPI 260^® Certified Practitioner
• Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI^®) Practitioner
• Certified Dialogue Education Teacher (Global Learning Partners)
• Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation)
• Completed Principles of Graphic Facilitation Workshop (The Grove)

GERALD P. MACDAID is an independent trainer and consultant. From 1981 to 1999 Jerry served on staff at the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), where he served in various positions including chief executive, director of research, consultant, and trainer. He worked closely with Mary McCaulley on the Manual: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® in Higher Education, 2nd ed., running extensive databank analyses and compiling contributed studies. Other major projects at CAPT include the longitudinal Engineering Education Research Consortium, MBTI^® Form AV analysis, validation studies for the Spanish and Korean translations of the MBTI^® tool, and the University of Florida Freshmen Ten Year Follow-Up Study. He is a contributing author for Uses of the MBTI^® Instrument in Colleges and Universities and co—authored The MBTI^® Career Report Manual and CAPT's Computer Scoring Career Reports. He is the senior author of the CAPT Atlas of Type Tables, which is a compendium of type data on careers. Jerry is also extensively involved in suicide and crisis intervention for the Alachua County Crisis Center where he has been a trainer, consultant, and crisis counselor since 1979. He has collected data on the relationship between type and training for crisis counselors. Jerry also worked in student development and counseling as a residence hall director and Learning Skills Center director at the University of Florida while pursuing his degree in psychology.

PATRICIA MIRANDA-SLOAN is a Talent Management Consultant offering over twenty years of experience developing leaders at all levels of the organization. She has worked across industries including health care, financial services, technology, retail, automobile, education, publishing, legal services and not-for-profit. Pat has worked with these companies as an assessment expert to develop training programs, deliver team-building seminars, implement career development initiatives, create diversity empowerment programs, provide coaching/leadership development and address outplacement and selection.

Her goal in working across these myriad corporate environments has been to create customized approaches to meet each client’s specific needs. She is recognized for her ability to learn each culture quickly, create necessary adaptations to the approach in order to achieve meaningful results speedily and to clearly communicate in language most meaningful to each individual involved.

As an organizational leader herself in the role of National Director of Consultant Services for Consulting Psychologists Press (The Myers-Briggs^®), Pat oversaw a national team of consultants who developed and delivered assessment-based programs for top universities and Fortune 500 companies. Pat is also fully certified in these and other assessment tools and brings a psychometric foundation to each consulting project and coaching engagement. Her consulting expertise includes teambuilding, leadership development, selection and executive coaching work. She is also considered an expert in leadership assessments and applying them diagnostically at both the individual employee and organizational levels.

Pat holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Psychology from New York University and has traveled internationally in her leadership and consulting roles.

YVONNE NELSON-REID, B.Ed., M.A., M.A., Ph.D., is the Senior Development Associate at the Center for Applications of Psychological Type^® (CAPT^® ) and editor/writer for the People Stripes^® website. Yvonne is a depth psychologist, personal/team/leadership development specialist, teacher, career coach, writer, and speaker. She holds a B.Ed. in secondary education; an M.A. in Educational Research, with emphasis on Jungian Theory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® tool (Thesis - Experiencing Psychological Type: Interactive Insights into the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® tool); and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Depth Psychology, with emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. Facilitating, teaching, coaching, and parenting have taught her a great deal about relationships and the importance of communication.

As a certified MBTI^® and Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children^® (MMTIC^®) professional, Yvonne uses typology as a tool for helping others understand differences and communicate more effectively. Yvonne has over 25 years of experience in working with and using the MBTI^® tool both professionally and personally. Academically, she has studied type theory in her M.A. and Ph.D. programs.

Along with her typology certifications, Yvonne is certified in the Strong Interest Inventory^®, FIRO-B^®, and CPI 260^® instruments and has participated in advanced workshops on the following topics: Exploring the Wisdom of Type and Diversity; Was that Really Me? - Type and the Inferior Function; Type and Career Development Over the Lifespan; and Combining the Strong Interest Inventory^® and MBTI^® Tools in Career Counseling and Consulting.

Yvonne has presented academic papers at conferences in the U.S. and Canada through the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies (JSSS) and the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS), along with the Association for Psychological Type International (APTi) in Australia.

Certifications and Qualifications

• Faculty Member, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® (MBTI^®) Step I^™ and Step II^™ Certification Program
• MBTI^® Master Practitioner
• MMTIC^® Certified Practitioner
• Strong Interest Inventory^® Certified Practitioner
• FIRO-B^® Certified Practitioner
• CPI 260^® Certified Practitioner

CATHERINE RAINS, M.S., works with Fortune 500 companies, universities, and nonprofit organizations to develop and facilitate organizational development initiatives and teambuilding interventions. As an assessment and organizational trainer, Catherine's expertise includes instructional design, stand-up training, program development, train-the-trainer sessions, and team-building strategies. Catherine is MBTI^® Master Practitioner and a qualified facilitator of The Myers-Briggs Company's MBTI^® Certification, FIRO^® Certification and Strong Interest Inventory^® Certification programs. She is also an expert on interpreting the Strong Interest Inventory^® assessment and using it in combination with the MBTI^® tool, and a regular speaker at numerous conferences, including those of the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the National Career Development Association, First Year Experience, the Middle Atlantic Career Counseling Association. Catherine served on staff for The Myers-Briggs Company, publisher of the MBTI assessment, as a professional consultant for over two decades, she was director of career services at Winthrop University in South Carolina and associate director of co-op and career development at Long Island University , where she developed expertise in using the MBTI and Strong assessments with students and adult clients. She served as president of the South Carolina Association of Colleges and Employers and was professional development chair for the Southern Association of Colleges and Employers. She also worked as a market research coordinator for Business Products Consulting Group and held several other organizational marketing positions prior to discovering her life's calling as an organizational trainer and career development coach.

Catherine has a master's degree in counseling from C. W . Post, Long Island University, specializing in career development.

Certifications and Qualifications include:

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® (MBTI^®) Step I^™ and Step II^™ Certification Program Facilitator
• MBTI^® Master Practitioner
• Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation–Behavior^™ (FIRO–B^®) Certification Program Facilitator
• Strong Interest Inventory^® Certification Program Facilitator
• CPI 260^® Certified Practitioner
• Completed "Foundations of Dialogue Education: From Principles to Practice" Training offered by Global Learning Partners

MICHAEL SEGOVIA, M.A., Michael is a credentialed MBTI^® Master Practitioner and facilitator for The Myers-Briggs Company's four-day MBTI^® Certification Program. In his role as The Myers-Briggs Company's Professional Services Senior Consultant, Michael also facilitates The Myers-Briggs Company's FIRO^® and Strong Interest Inventory^® Certification Programs as well as customized in-house learning and development trainings, working with clients in the entertainment, technology, financial, R & D, hospitality, communications, energy, security, legal, transportation, healthcare, and education industries.

Over his 30 plus-year career at The Myers-Briggs Company, Michael has also served as senior brand manager for products including the Strong, CPI^™, and FIRO-B^® instruments. He has directed The Myers-Briggs Company's qualifications processes and represented The Myers-Briggs Company on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® Common Exam Revision, Exam Procedures, and Type Community committees. Prior to his current role, Michael served as The Myers-Briggs Company's Divisional Director of International Sales and Director of Business Development.

Michael has facilitated workshops on the MBTI, FIRO-B, and Strong instruments in the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Norway, the Philippines, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. He has presented both research and application sessions at the International Association of Career Management Professionals Global Conference, the National Career Development Association Conference, the Association of Psychological Type International Conference, and the International Career Development Conference. He has appeared on Talk Radio, You Auto Know, The Jill Tracey Show, Dubai City 7 TV, Dubai Morning Live radio, Retirement TV's What's Next, and Wall Street Journal podcasts to discuss assessment issues in career management, training, and development. Michael has contributed to and/or been quoted in publications including Fast Company, Training, Workforce, Triple Pundit, Recruiter.com, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Michael received his master's degree in clinical psychology from Trinity University, specializing in assessment administration and interpretation. He also served as chair of the Industrial and Organizational Division of the Association of Test Publishers.

Certifications and Qualifications

• Faculty Member, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® (MBTI^®) Step I^™ and Step II^™ Certification Program
• MBTI^® Step III^™ Certified Practitioner
• MBTI^® Master Practitioner
• Faculty Member, FIRO-B^® Certification Program
• Faculty Member, Strong Interest Inventory^® Certification Program
• CPI 260^® Certified Practitioner
• DiSC^® Certified Practitioner
• BarOn EQ-i 2.0^® Certified Practitioner
• The Birkman Method^® Certified Practitioner
• Hogan^® HPI, HDS, and MVPI Certified Practitioner
• Korn Ferry Leadership Architect^™ (Lominger) Certified Practitioner
• "Foundations of Dialogue Education: From Principles to Practice" Training (Global Learning Partners)
• Completed Principles of Graphic Facilitation Workshop (The Grove)