‘The Myers-Briggs Indicator’ presentation on tap for Wednesday

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Myerss & Briggs Foundation CEO and President Mark Enting will give a presentation on the popular personality assessment at the Matheson History Museum on Wednesday.

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The Matheson History Museum will present “The Myers-Briggs Indicator®: Gainesville Roots Worldwide Influence” with Mark Enting on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

This free event will take place at 7 p.m. at 513 E. University Ave. To attend, click here to RSVP.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument is a global phenomenon, but many people do not know that its roots are in Gainesville. Enting, president and CEO of Myers & Briggs Foundation®, will tell us the story of how the most popular personality assessment in history came to call Gainesville home.

The story begins with a passionate mother-daughter team who built and tested the first versions of the MBTI® instrument with family members, medical students, and personnel consultants, and unfolds in a research laboratory at the University of Florida Department of Psychology, where a team of three women developed the first computer scoring program for the MBTI assessment in the 1970s.

Enting will also bring us up to date on the Gainesville nonprofit that has been of national influence in the field of psychological type for decades and the current mission of Myers & Briggs Foundation that drives research, education, and community in personality type worldwide.

Seth Johnson of the Mainstreet Daily News wrote an article in May 2025 on “Myers, Briggs and Gainesville: How popular personality test found its home.”