About GS Consultants

Based in Lake Tahoe California, GS offers training and program development consulting on career development applications of the Strong and MBTI instruments. Judith (Judi) Grutter founded GS in 1978 with her husband and business partner, Bill Schatz — thus GS. We were located in southern California at the time — Bill at Cal State Los Angeles and Judi at Cal State Northridge. We kept our university "day jobs" all through the 1980s as we nurtured our training business. By 1990 growth of the business had forced a decision point: The security of academic employment vs. the adventure of our business partnership. Bill was the risk taker; Judi the planner — ENFP and INTJ describe it pretty well. Our joint vision was solid. We just needed to implement it. We also had a vision of where we wanted to spend the rest of our lives — Lake Tahoe. And so we jumped in.

We moved to Lake Tahoe and committed our full time efforts to GS. We launched the Strong Certification Program (it was called the Strong Qualifying Program then) with six participants for our first program in Tahoe. They got a lot of individual attention! For several years we offered Strong "qualifying" in major cities all over the country, as well as Strong and MBTI application workshops. As travel budgets got tighter we put the Strong program online and have recently added the distance learning MBTI Certification Program. We now only offer one public certification program each year — the Strong Certification Program here in Lake Tahoe in June. It has grown from six to 30 participants over the years, and is our most popular offering. We also do an advanced MBTI Workshop here every April on a "hot" type-related topic.

In addition to our Lake Tahoe programs, our trainers are on the road most of the time delivering in-house Strong and MBTI training on college and university campuses and for organizations and government agencies all over the country. We lost Bill, the "S" in GS Consultants, to cancer in 2004, but not before he saw his vision fully realized. Michele has been our Program Coordinator since 1997. She is the one who keeps it all together!