Mary McGuiness

Mary McGuiness (ENFP) is the Director of the Institute for Type Development (ITD), a national training organization that has been the leading provider of Accreditation in the use of the MBTIŽ instrument for 22 years and, more recently, the MajorsPTI. Mary convened Australia’s first national conference on Psychological Type and the MBTI in 1991, which provided the launching pad for the formation of the Australian Association for Psychological Type (AusAPT). She served on the National Committee of the Australian APT for 10 years, with two years as National President, and was president of the Sydney Chapter for six years.

Mary regularly presents at national and international conferences on personality type. She has been invited as keynote speaker at type conferences in Brussels, Wellington and Sydney. In recent years Mary has presented workshops London, Dublin, New York, Burlington (Vermont), Philadelphia, Dallas and in several cities across Australia. Mary also presents type theory at conferences for educational organizations, government departments and private companies, and for the Australian military in such groups as the Battlespace Communications Operations Group (BCOG) and Financial Investigation Services (FIS).

Mary has published several books on type. In 2004 Mary published her best selling book You've Got Personality, which has since been translated into several languages and has sold more than 90,000 copies.