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Dr. Mary-Elaine Jacobsen is a Clinical Psychologist, speaker, trainer, coach, and author, whose expertise in the development of high potential is recognized both nationally and internationally. As Director of Omega Point Resources, Dr. Jacobsen provides assessment, consultation, team-building workshops, training, and executive coaching, to business leaders, educators, professionals, and creative artists here and abroad. She has worked with a broad range of individuals and organizations from bio-medical innovators to school systems to government think-tanks. She is especially interested in the identification of emerging gifted leaders and formulating strategies for the development and retention of high-potential individuals and teams within organizations. Her breakthrough first book, The Gifted Adult, Ballantine, New York (English and Spanish), is available at Amazon.com and other booksellers. In it Dr. Jacobsen explains critical personality factors and life issues of high-potential adults and offers specific strategies for the fulfillment of creative potential and real-world success. It remains the only book of its kind in print. Nearly every day since the publication of the book, Dr. Jacobsen has received letters, calls, and e-mails from readers across the United States and from more than 15 other countries on every continent except Antarctica. Dr. Jacobsen has published numerous articles on the development of human potential and is the Founder and Chair of the Board of the newly founded International Society for Gifted Adults and Advocates (ISGAA). She earned a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Minnesota and subsequently obtained a Master's degree and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, MN. She has served as the Chief Psychologist a large non-profit foundation and has been a regular guest on her local NBC affiliate’s Today Show. Beyond her responsibilities at Omega Point Resources, Dr. Jacobsen serves as Associate Professor of Psychology at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her new book, The Brat Stops Here!, a user-friendly parenting book of proven techniques for getting rid of bad behavior in five weeks or less, will be published in early 2006 by St. Martin’s Press/Griffin, New York.
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