Markku Kauppinen has been the President and CEO of Extended DISC North America, Inc. since 1997. His focus and passion are to help individuals, teams and organizations to become more successful by providing easy to use information on how to modify behaviors.

Under Markku’s leadership, Extended DISC has become one of the top assessment companies in the world that has been recognized by multiple industry awards. The mission of the company has been steadfast:

Provide the best, internationally validated assessment tools that can be tailored to clients’ unique needs.
Deliver the most responsive and flexible facilitator support and customer service in the industry.
Offer the best support materials.
Never stop developing and improving.
Today, Extended DISC organization has offices in over 40 countries and over 250 team members.

While millions of Extended DISC assessments have been used around the world, Markku has personally debriefed well over 45,000 assessments. He is widely recognized as the most knowledgeable person to interpret the Extended DISC Profiles in North America and among the top few in the world. He has conducted over 450 Extended DISC Certification sessions around the world.

Markku also plays a key role in the product development. Most recently he has been involved in the development of Sales Capacity Assessments, Sports Capacity Assessments, and Remote Worker Assessment. These assessments are already being used in over 40 countries.Markku was born in Helsinki, Finland and emigrated to the U.S. in 1984. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Management and Marketing and an MBA in Finance.