Beyond Personality Types

Meet the BPT Hosts


Dr. Linda Berens

Dr. Linda V. Berens, Ph.D. serves as co-founder, lead architect of certification, model development and transformational change programs for InterStrength. She is a human and organizational development practitioner who has been teaching professionals since 1982 as well as helping individuals and teams recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work more efficiently together. After founding Temperament Research Institute in 1983, a corporate consulting and training organization dedicated to individual differences, she turned her attention to developing a more complete and integrated look at individual differences through the Integral framework. Linda is recognized internationally for her theoretical contributions to the field of psychological type and for developing user-friendly training materials for practical application of understanding individual differences.She is the author or co-author of multiple books and training materials. In addition to holding a license as a California Marriage and Family Therapist and a doctorate in psychology, she also holds certification as a Holacracy Facilitator and in Integral Transformative Leadership from Pacific Integral and the LIOS Graduate College at Saybrook University.

Olivier Caudron

Olivier Caudron is a Confidence Coach and Self-Discovery Practitioner with an educational background in performing arts and healing techniques. He has a deep passion for helping people become the best version of themselves by discovering their true Selves and unlocking their inner strength. Born in Belgium, Olivier has traveled to Spain and the United States to pursue his dream of helping others reach their highest potential.

His interest in personality types came from the need to adapt his practice to each client. Throughout his extensive research on the topic, he resonated with the InterStrength Approach, a holistic and self-paced types discovery method created and taught by Dr. Linda Berens. Her theory matched his convictions that a human being is a multilevel interconnected system whose self-awareness growth frees them from unhealthy patterns. 

Conscious of the priceless benefits her approach could bring to everybody, Olivier invited Linda to co-host a podcast show with the mission to shake some (mis—)conceptions in the "Type Community" and restore individuals' power to identify their best-fit types themselves.