Reviews

Category: Reviews From Clients

"I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who has a genuine interest in improving the performance of those around them and their teams. In my work setting, I will endeavor to apply these principles. I will first have to focus on myself, but I think that finding others' strengths and bartering with them to cover my 'non-strengths' will be beneficial to our whole team."

MBA Student
Southern Methodist University

Category: Reviews From Clients

"First of all, I think that the BrainStyles test and literature is not only applicable in business situations, but I also find it very useful in my personal life as well. After reading this book, I bought another and gave it to my fiancée to improve the odds of our marriage being successful."

MBA Student
Southern Methodist University

Category: Reviews From Clients

"When I was reading the description of my BrainStyle I had to do all I could not to burst into tears! Because, like the person described in your book, I felt that FINALLY someone knew what was going on in my 'weird' mind... I wasn't weird: I was OK, I AM OK! You have no idea what a relief it was to find at 35 that this is the case. At 35 I feel like my life is just beginning! I now feel like I don't constantly have to apologize sic for who I am. to others and myself. I feel vindicated, liberated."

Andrea Bulacios
Personal Assistant
City of Casey, Australia

Category: Reviews From Clients

"Your book has helped me tremendously and made me understand exactly why I am feeling so totally frustrated when people can't see it when I get it so quickly and easily. Your points on communication are so perfect and right!"

Janet Hoy
Senior Project Manager
Architectural Firm

Category: Reviews From Clients

“BrainStyles helped me change my life to one of self-contentment and renewed spirituality.  I feel in control now so I can be much more empathetic of other people’s shortfalls and focus instead on their strengths.  The net result is that my relationships and career are much more successful than in the past.”

Beth Stuckell
Vice President & General Manager
Frito Lay

Category: Reviews From Clients

"This is a whole system for living. I use it with my family, friends, and people at work. Knowing BrainStyles has made me more secure with people, especially new Customers, who [sic] I have to get to know in a pressure situation."

Dan J. Carrithers
Product Manager
The Dexter Corporation

Category: Reviews From Clients

"This material changed my life! BrainStyles filled in the gaps that were missing for me in all the other systems I've studied--including the Meyers-Briggs test and numerous other personality systems--with real validity. This is really breakthrough stuff because it explains how someone thinks now in such a simple way, you can use it immediately to improve and work much more effectively as teams."

John P. Fullingim
Director
The Addison Marketing Group

Category: Reviews From Clients

"Over the last six years, BrainStyles and the principles associated with it have helped me develop higher performing teams: teams that possess a full range of skills to manage and lead all aspects of business ... I think BrainStyles helps us understand and value diversities like never before. The differences in race and gender have become second to how people think as I deal with them. That's what my organization really needs."

Gary Weihs
Division Distribution Manager
Pepsi-Cola Company

Category: Reviews From Clients

I have read Polish version of the book and I have to say ... it is great! This book changed my life. I was always thinking that I was not right. Now I can see that there are other people like me and that they are even successful. My plan is work on my strengths. I am hoping that since not to cry on my non-strengths any more sic). I have understood that I cannot be Conceptor or Knower. And it is OK. I am Conciliator, and I have something to offer that other people do not have. Thank you for giving me hope.

Agnicszka Sypniewska
MBA Student

Category: Reviews From Clients

"Marlane Miller's insightfulness and interpretation of four basic right-left brain personality types is outstanding. If previously you have been confused or unsatisfied with all the other 5, 6, 7, 8 or 16-fold typologies, BrainStyles is the book for you! It is mind-enlightening, and quite personally engaging... This book is NOT a neurological guidebook nor a post-graduate thesis like other personality assessments can be... I look forward to more books from this author."

Michael Adam
Psychology Research Director
Los Angeles, CA

Category: Reviews From Clients

"BrainStyles is a common denominator across all humankind regardless of gender, race, ethnic origin, etc. It is something that brings diverse people together on common ground."

Henry Ho
Customer Business Development Manager for Asia
Procter & Gamble

Category: Reviews From Clients

"I've personally found the BrainStyles concept to open a rich, untapped resource of diversity within our work group. The rewards were definitely worth the time and energy Investment."

Tom A. Muccio
Vice President, Customer Business Development
Procter & Gamble

Category: Reviews From Clients

"This is an important book whose ideas will help managers and employees better understand each other. It's a 'must' H.R. book."

Stanton H. Goldberg
Vice President, Human Resources
Ciba-Geigy Corporation

Category: Reviews From Clients

"Becoming aware of my strengths empowers me to do what I do well, and not to spend time trying to become something I'm not. This has been very powerful for me and my relationships with and expectations for other people."

Steve Trozinski
North American Logistics Manager
Monsanto Corporation

Category: Reviews From Clients

"BrainStyles has changed my life as a trainer. In the past, I felt that some of the students were resisting my training. After I have identified the BrainStyle of the student I can adapt my training to their style and the way they process information. Some of my students have said after training, 'Now I know why I am the way I am. There isn't anything wrong with me after all.' BrainStyles has been tremendous for my work team. The bickering has been replaced with, 'This is their BrainStyle, we need to communicate in the way that they understand best.'"

Linda Monk
Regional Operations Trainer
Express Personnel Services

Category: Reviews From Clients

"You know P&G is so big on training, and in my five years there, I went to dozens of training sessions each year. But your BrainStyles program has had the biggest impact on my life, and it is the one I fall back on continually: Please do nor take this as flattery, but as honesty. In fact, when I first started in my position at the university, I had difficulty working with our president, so I asked him to do your BrainStyles Assessment® to help me understand where he was coming from on his reactions and his decision making process. He did and it was very beneficial. I've been here seven years now."

Carol Woodward
Director of Marketing & Public Relations
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Category: Reviews From Clients

"Leading From Strengths with The BrainStyles System® has been presented several times each semester this year to graduate MBA students through the Business Leadership Center, Southern Methodist University. The participants' ratings for the course are among the highest received for our courses. All students discussed the usefulness of the seminar to enhance their personal lives and relationships. I heartily endorse BrainStyles as part of an educational curriculum. It provides a very useful tool for developing personal leadership as well as a foundation for collaborating with others in teams."

Paula Hill
Director, Business Leadership Center
Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University

Category: Reviews From Clients

"I saw BrainStyles make a huge difference in Team Performance. When members understand each other’s brainstyles and appreciate and leverage their respective strengths, they had a higher level of candor, interdependence, and better results than traditional teams. This also applied to global teams. Exposed to BrainStyles, they were more effective across language, cultural, and regional differences. Regardless of the home nationality of team members, BrainStyles created similar personal insights, helped overcome perceived cultural stereotypes, and enabled greater team effectiveness in diverse teams."

Mike Policastro
Supply Chain Executive
Procter & Gamble

Category: Reviews From Coaches

"The Myers-Briggs Temperment Instrument] tells you ways to change. People forget their profile. BrainStyles sticks."

Executive Coach
Dallas,TX

Category: Reviews From Coaches

"In professional services, strategic insight is necesssary for a high level of executive performance. I have seen many situations where an understanding of BrainStyles concepts provided a competitive advantage—shaping decisions around business development, negotiating, client relations, and talent management."

Executive Coach
Dallas, TX

Category: Reviews From Coaches

“BrainStyles helped me change my life to one of self-contentment and renewed spirituality. I feel in control now so I can be much more empathetic of other people’s shortfalls and focus instead on their strengths. The net result is that my relationships and career are much more successful than in the past.”

Beth Stuckell
Vice President & General Manager
Frito Lay

Category: Reviews From Coaches

Some people I work with have reached the point of hitting a wall. They are accomplished adults who have been affected at their core by perceived failures they do not understand. They have no faith in self-help books. They do not want to be comforted. They want a solution and everything they have tried has failed. Finally, they look in the mirror and say, “It must be me.”  

They took The BrainStyles Assessment™  and each one said in their own way, “Had I known THIS, my life would be so different right now.”

Executive Coach
Dallas, TX

Category: Reviews From News

"From phrenology to Myers-Briggs tests, systems for explaining personality share a weakness: messy divisions between categories. There's an endless number of personality attributes, and nearly as many possibilities for grouping chem. Dallasite Miller fights this tendency by focusing her system on the way people make decisions."

Mike Maza
"Help Yourself"
The Dallas Morning News

Category: Reviews From News

"There has been, it seems, a library of books published in the past several years aimed entirely at encouraging us to improve ourselves and to change. The message has been that if we do not change we will not be able to meet the demands of an ever-changing world. How refreshing now to read BrainStyles by Marlane Miller, who, instead of encouraging us to change, gives us the tools and guidance to discover and affirm who we really are--how we think and how we respond. From there, Ms. Miller teaches us how to recognize and affirm the people we love and work with, leading them to a better, more sensitive, and more effective way of being.

I recommend this book as a tool for both life and work."

James A. Autry
Author of Love and Profit and Confessions of an Accidental Businessman