Jean M. Kummerow, PhD

Dr. Jean Kummerow is a psychologist, consultant and author in St. Paul, Minnesota. She specializes in leadership and management development, career counselling, and team building, consulting with individuals and organizations in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. She is the staff psychologist to the Blandin Foundation's Community Leadership Program, a program designed to train leaders from Minnesota's rural communities.

She trains professionals internationally on the use of psychological instruments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ^®, the MBTI ^® Step II and the Strong Interest Inventory ^®. She also writes extensively - her most recent publication is Uses of Type in Career Counseling for the MBTI ^® Manual (1998). She is co-author of Introduction to Type ^® in Organizations, LIFETypes, WORKTypes, and Strong + MBTI ^® Career Development Guide and Workbook. She is editor of New Directions in Career Planning and the Workplace. The light-hearted Type Indicator for Pets is also one of her endeavors. She co-authored the MBTI ^® Step II Expanded Interpretive Report as well as other interpretive materials on the Step II (formerly called the Expanded Analysis Report), and a chapter on Leaders and the Step II in Developing Leaders.

She is active in the Association for Psychological Type having served on its Board for four years and on the Training Committee. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Psychological Type.

Previously she held positions as a consulting psychologist with a management-consulting firm, and as a counselor, instructor and research associate at the University of Minnesota. Her doctorate is in Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology from that same institution. Her BA is from Grinnell College in Iowa. She is a licensed psychologist in the State of Minnesota. She is married to her opposite type and has two teen-aged children.

Her type preferences are ESTJ.