Taibi Kahler holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Child Development and Family Life, and a B.A. in English Literature, all from Purdue University. He is a Clinical Psychologist, and has held licensures as a Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor and as a Licensed Counselor. He is the originator of the Process Therapy Model™ and The Process Communication Model®. More than 700,000 people worldwide have been profiled using the Personality Pattern Inventory (PPI), the assessment instrument developed for these models.
Therapists and counselors have found the Process Therapy Model to be uniquely valuable in treating and counseling their clients. The Process Communication Model is used by businesses and government agencies throughout the world as a management, selection, placement and motivation methodology and by educators to maximize their effectiveness and to connect with hard to reach students.
Dr. Kahler received the 1977 Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award from the International Transactional Analysis Association for his groundbreaking article "The Miniscript." In 1978, he was invited to be an interviewing psychologist by Dr. Terry McGuire, NASA's Lead Psychiatrist for Manned Spaceflight. As a result, the PPI was used in astronaut selection and Dr. Kahler's methodology was incorporated into the astronaut selection, evaluation, training and management processes for almost two decades.
Dr. Kahler has held memberships in a variety of national and international professional organizations, including the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Group Psychotherapy Association, the California Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, the International Association of Transactional Analysis and the Sociedad Internacional de Nueuas Dendas de la Conducta and has been honored by organizations and publications worldwide. He's held memberships in four high I.Q. societies, and received the 2006 Hall of Fame Award from Intertel.
Dr. Kahler has authored 4 books, in five languages, and more than 100 other articles and publications. Thirty books, as well as a dozen doctoral dissertations, have been written on Dr. Kahler's personality models, on topics including education, relationships, management, consulting, and spiritual applications.
He's been communication advisor and friend to former President Clinton and acted as an advisor to his Presidential campaigns in the field of psychodemographics.
Dr. Kahler is President of Kahler Communications, Inc., which manages his works and operations worldwide.