Marci Segal is recognized for contributions to the fields of creativity and psychology. Her principles of creative studies and personality type helps people in organizations develop a "best work" environment honoring individual differences and leveraging commonalities including personal and interpersonal elements, behaviors, process, tools and methods for engagement in new thinking.
Marci began studying creativity in 1977 as an undergraduate minor and also holds a masters degree in Creativity and Change Leadership from the International Center for Studies in Creativity the State University of New York College at Buffalo. She is the first Canadian to hold this designation. Her undergraduate major was in cultural anthropology.
Marci has been a senior faculty member at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (since 1980), an MBTI instrument qualifying instructor (1993–2006) and sessional faculty at the Ontario College of Art and Design (2006-7). She sits on the board of the American Creativity Association, is a member of the World Future Society, is co-founder of World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 and life member of the Creative Education Foundation.
Her consultancy, creativityland inc was founded in 1984 in Toronto, Canada.