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About Personality Lingo

Founded by Mary Miscisin, M.S. and Ed Redard, M.D. in 2014, the Personality Lingo® system was built on trust and respect for facilitators as professionals, and a belief that their insights matter. Using familiar terminology, it helps people see beyond behavior to the motivations underneath and gives them a clear way to discuss how they see the world and interact with others.

WHAT
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PERSONALITY
LINGO
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Practical Application

Designed to move beyond personality awareness into real-world integration and building lasting skills, the Personality Lingo approach offers practical ways to appreciate differences, communicate more effectively, and navigate everyday stress at work and at home.

Everyday Language, Designed for Clarity

Rather than replacing familiar temperament frameworks, it complements them by offering standardized, everyday language that helps learners understand, remember, and apply personality concepts more easily.

Built for Facilitators with Clear Permissions

Ready-to-use materials and clear instructions allow facilitators to deliver the training as provided. Participant materials may be distributed as part of your programs without per-participant fees. Materials may be shared as printed handouts or digital files, within the scope of the Use License Agreement.
For Qualified Presenters, additional permissions allow thoughtful adaptation of the work, supporting creative expression while preserving clarity for learners and avoiding further fragmentation of personality language.

Founder Mary Miscisin, MS a.k.a. Positively Mary

Founder of Personality Lingo Mary Miscisin
The substance of Personality Lingo is grounded in decades of real-world experience. Founder Mary Miscisin brings more than 35 years as a speaker, educator, and practitioner in the health and wellness field, working hands-on with personality styles across diverse settings. The insights and methodologies within Personality Lingo emerged from observing what consistently helped people understand one another more clearly and work together more effectively.

I never set out to build a company. Personality Lingo was created to support facilitators who needed a system that honored competence, clarity, and creative freedom.

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Co-Founder Ed Redard, MD (1960-2016)

As a family physician for more than 27 years, Dr. Redard will always be remembered for the individual care and consideration he extended to his patients. He helped his patients to recognize the impact emotions can have on physical health and taught them to be mindful of taking care of their own emotional state. Recognizing that a blueprint for health promotion and wellness that works well for one person does not necessarily work well for another, Dr. Redard took a nuanced approach with his patients taking personality styles into consideration.

Ed's Compass Metaphor

Operations Manager Cres Woods

Operations Manager Cres Woods
Cres plays a key role in the ongoing development and stewardship of Personality Lingo. Having grown up immersed in her mother’s work, Cres brings both lived familiarity with the system and a contemporary lens for learning design.
She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Instructional Design at the University of Colorado Denver. Her strength lies in applying systems-level thinking, learning science, and facilitation design to translate long-standing insights into accessible, practical learning experiences for today’s audiences.
Cres is deeply committed to preserving the integrity of the work while ensuring it continues to evolve thoughtfully, ethically, and in service of the facilitators who use it.

Our mission is to present personality concepts in ways that support real-life application, foster compassion rather than categorization, and empower facilitators to teach these tools with clarity and integrity.

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The Compass Metaphor

Imagine you’ve been hiking all day, and night has fallen without a moon to light your way. You’re exhausted and unsure if you’ve strayed off course, but you decide to set up camp beside a stream. In the morning, you wake up surrounded by unfamiliar mountains with no clear sense of direction. The sky is overcast, hiding the sun, and you realize you’re lost. Panicked, you check your map but can’t figure out which way is north. Then you remember YOUR COMPASS! With it, you orient the map, recognize where you are, and understand how to get back on track. Relieved, you pack up and set off with confidence, knowing exactly where you’re headed.
It is helpful to think of our innate temperament (our personality lineup) as an internal compass which points to our own personal “True North” that offers clues to the landmarks of our “life map”.
Your internal compass provides an orientation to life circumstances.

When you become fluent in Personality Lingo, the reward you receive is not only a greater and deeper understanding of yourself, but also a deeper appreciation and understanding of those around you. Relationships shift, work situations transform, life priorities solidify, and personal empowerment and satisfaction massively increase.
The time has come for you to understand how to orient yourself to your own personal “True North”.

Enjoy the journey!

- Ed Redard, MD

Compassionate Communication

Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also called Compassionate Communication, is a process developed by Marshall Rosenberg in the 1960s. Rosenburg discovered an insightful way of working through the conflict that arises when two individuals have contrasting strategies for having their own needs and values met. His process involves identifying one’s own needs, the needs of others, and the feelings that surround these needs.

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