Jennifer Selby Long Founder & Principal Selby Group

Jennifer Selby Long, Founder of Selby Group, LLC, helps successful business leaders achieve their full potential, initiate and lead change, and skillfully navigate the challenges triggered by external change. She is an accomplished 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 consulting firm has attracted clients in a wide range of industries, including information technology, consumer products, biotechnology, weather services, professional services, and law. Jennifer works with industry giants, smaller fast-growth companies, and a select group of private clients. 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 2011 Past 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 first comprehensive study on how psychological type and gender combine to influence financial behavior.

Jennifer also served 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.