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Marci Segal (born 1954) is recognized for contributions to the fields of creativity and psychology. She is a creativity theorist, facilitator, trainer,and keynote speaker living in Toronto, Canada. Segal co-founded World Creativity and Innovation Week (April 15 - 21) as an extension of her passion for creativity.

Education
She was educated at Champlain and Summit Heights Public Schools and Sir Sanford Fleming Secondary School, and the Alternative and Independent Study Program (AISP) in North York, ON and went to college at Sheridan College in Brampton, ON, and the State University of New York College at Buffalo, NY. At Buffalo State, she majored in Cultural Anthropology, and minored in Creative Studies from the International Center for Studies in Creativity. She continued with the graduate work to earn a Master of Science degree in Creative Studies and Leadership. Marci was the first undergraduate minor in Creative Studies and is the first Canadian to hold both undergraduate and graduate designations in the field of creativity.

Career Moves
Marci Segal was on staff at Foote, Cone and Belding advertising agency from 1988 – 1990 as a Creativity Specialist in the area of research and strategic planning. Prior to that she served as an analyst with marketing research firms Goldfarb Consultants (1984 – 1985), and Pollara.(1985 – 1988). Segal qualified to administer the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® Instrument in 1988, and was a qualifying instructor for the instrument (1993 – 2006). Throughout her tenure Marci travelled globally giving keynote addresses and workshops showing relationships between creativity and type that no one had seen before. She wrote about her work in Creativity and Personality Type: Tools for Understanding and Inspiring the Many Voices of Creativity (2001); A Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments and Creativity (2001, 2006) and contributed to A Quick Guide to the 16 Types in Organizations by highlighting how people each of the 16 personality styles expresses their creativity.