Richard Long, B.A. is the owner of Personality Type Works, an Enneagram and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®), business, education and career consulting/training firm. Mr. Long has been MBTI® certified since 1988 and has intensive study with many Enneagram teachers starting with the first International Enneagram Conference in 1994. He is Treasurer of the Southern California International Enneagram Association. He is in process of being a certified teacher through Riso-Hudson Enneagram Professional Teaching Program. He has taught the Enneagram in Southern California for the last 6 years.

He uses lots of interaction and exercises. I do not believe in enneagram "tests" as a first result but as a last resort. The enneagram is revealed to us through interaction, discovery and the sometimes slow unlocking of our "comforting convictions."  Knowing our Enneagram Type without developing our witness does not allow the true power of this new (or old) self-knowledge to work. What is important is how your type works (or doesn't) for you! This is best explored in a group interactive setting.

He has been described as fun loving, humorous 9 and a knowledgeable, ingenious INTP.