Specialist in human development

Prof. Dr. Dorothy Downey, University of Minnesota

She finished her university degree with a Masters in public health care and a second Masters in clinical psychology/psychiatry. She received a mandate to research, develop and test psychic health. These concepts were intended to support university graduates in the health system in their clinical work with patients and their families. Together with her research colleague, Professor Dr. John Geier, she produced the social science curriculum. It was an inter-disciplinary approach which was to be established in clinical psychology, social psychology and in health care. She adopted a pioneering role in the area of behavioural assessments in the workplace.
Professor Downey established DISC both as an assessment tool for behaviour and also as a self-developing learning system in leading universities and large corporations.
As a co-author and researcher in the area of human development, she led investigations into the DISC profile for children and DISC behavioural patterns in the workplace (the research was published in the DISC Library of Classical Profile Patterns). She continues her work as Vice Chairman of Geier Learning International and still makes an active contribution to persolog's analysis tools and concepts.