Jordan Peterson

Professor of Psychology

<p>Jordan B. Peterson is a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, and a clinical psychologist, with two main areas of study: the psychology of belief, including religion, mythology and political ideology; and the assessment and improvement of personality, including the prediction of creativity and academic and industrial performance.</p> <p>After completing his undergrad degree at Grande Prairie College and the University of Alberta, Dr. Peterson earned a Ph.D. in psychology at McGill in 1991, and was a post-doc at McGill&rsquo;s Douglas Hospital. In 1993, he joined the psychology faculty at Harvard.&nbsp; He moved to the University of Toronto in 1997.&nbsp; His work has been funded by SSHRC, CIHR and NSERC (major Canadian granting agencies), and the Rotman Business School Center for Integrative Thinking. He was nominated for the Levenson Prize at Harvard in 1998, and by TVO each year from 2005-2008 as one of Ontario&rsquo;s Best University Lecturers. He also serves as an essayist and panelist for TVO&rsquo;s <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Agenda</span>, a well-known Canadian current affairs program, and is a popular source of information for other media outlets, including TVO&rsquo;s Big Ideas, which has televised five of his lectures. &nbsp;</p> <p>Dr. Peterson also acts as a business consultant, working as an executive coach for senior partners of large law firms in Toronto, in addition to his clinical practice, and is the vice-president of a personality assessment and remediation company, examcorp.com (see also cream.hr). The author or co-author of more than 70 scientific articles, he published <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Maps of Meaning</span> in 1999 with Routledge, which was subsequently made into a televised lecture series on TVO (see mapsofmeaning.com). Dr. Peterson is presently communicating the ideas in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Maps of Meaning</span> to a wide public audience, serving as an advisor to a UN committee planning sustainable international development, and building an online system to help people understand and improve their characters (www.selfauthoring.com).&nbsp;</p>

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