Jennifer Selby Long Founder & Principal Selby Group

Some consultants create brilliant market strategies. Others analyze financial data to find opportunities for their clients. Jennifer's knack is helping clients navigate the leadership, communication, and organizational challenges triggered by change.

She is a sought-after executive coach, business advisor, speaker, and award-winning writer who has been quoted by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, MSNBC, The Associated Press, Yahoo! Hot Jobs, Online-Finance-Magazines.com, and the Bulletin of Psychological Type. Her style is supportive and direct.

Typical client results include:

• Improved leadership
• Better business results
• Better teamwork
• Improved retention of high performers and high potentials
• Improved communication and collaboration from the executive offices through the shop floor
• Increased alignment of all people in organization around key changes and the desired outcomes of these changes

She has worked in a wide range of industries, including technology, consumer products, biotechnology, weather services, professional services, and law. Her previous experience includes consulting for Arthur Andersen, where she supported the development of their small business consulting practice, as well as organizational development and training positions at Amoco and Nestlé USA.

The 2010 President of the International Association for Psychological Type, Jennifer is a leading expert in the ethical use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®). She is also the author of the only study on how psychological type and gender combine to influence financial behavior.

Jennifer serves on the 2010 Advisory Board for the Certificate in Management Program at the UC-Berkeley Extension School of Business, Technology, and Engineering, where she was one of the highest rated instructors in the Extension program. She is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting and Women in Consulting.

She is the editor of Traveling Light, a bi-weekly eZine to help leaders skyrocket their impact and lighten the load in their lives, and winner of the 2010 APEX Award for Publication Excellence for her special report Recession-Proof Your Career: How to Avoid the Three Massive Mistakes Made by Talented Leaders and Professionals, available at http://selbygroup.com/whitepapers.html.

Jennifer has an MA in organizational communication from the University of Illinois.