Trainer Profile

- EMOTIONAL EXCELLENCE (EQ)

Professor Dr. Leonard Yong (PhD; M.Ed; B.Sc.Hon)

Professor Dr. Leonard Yong is an international consultant who has trained and consulted in many countries internationally. He is an Educational & Industrial Psychologist. Prior to his retirement as Professor, University of Malaya's Dept of Counselling & Educational Psychologist, he has taught 23 years in University of Malaya.  

Professor Dr. Yong has gained international recognition for his research and consultancy work on creativity & emotional intelligence. Based on his pioneering work on the LEONARD Personality Inventory (LPI) & the LPI Software, and use in helping individuals to develop their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) & creativity.

Professor Dr. Yong has consulted and conducted numerous training workshops on EQ and Creative Thinking for leaders in organizations such as Intel, Motorola, Maybank, Nokia, British Petroleum (BP), Microsoft Thailand, Cathay Pacific Airlines, Thai Securities Exchange Commission, Readers Digest, Reuters, Chularat Hospital Thailand, Rasa Sayang Hotel, Pelangi Hotel, Equatorial Hotel, Cititel Hotel, Horwath International, Tan Chong Motors, Acer Technology, Kian Holdings, Public Packages Holdings, Unilever Thailand, Syngenta, Carat Club, B Braun, Istana Hotel and Petronas.  

pioneering work on the LEONARD Personality Inventory (LPI) & the LPI Software, and use in helping individuals to develop their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) & creativity.

Based on his LPI Model, he pioneered the University of Malaya Centre for Continuing Education (UMCCEd), which grew to become a very successful innovative and self-financing educational centre catering to thousands of adult students. He was Director of UMCCED until his retirement from the university.

Professor Dr. Yong has addressed groups in many countries such as the United States of America, Austria, Britain, Australia, France, Switzerland, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Holland, Russia, Japan, China, India, Korea, Indonesia, Burma, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius and Papua New Guinea. He has undertaken creativity & EQ research in the USA, Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.

He was awarded the 1992 Fulbright-ACLS/MACEE Award to undertake research on the creativity of Americans. He was awarded the 1993 Japan Foundation Research Fellowship Award to conduct research on Japanese creativity. He was also awarded the Senior Research Fellowship, European Studies Program 2000 (Bocconi University, Italy) to conduct personality research in Italy, Germany and Scotland.

Professor Dr. Yong’s books include Creativity: A Study of Malaysian Students, Pemikiran Kreatif and The LEONARD Personality Inventory. His articles have appeared in journals such as Perceptual & Motor Skills, The Journal of Creative Behaviour and Education Quarterly. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Malaysian Psychological Association. Presently he consults internationally with his clients from numerous countries. He is also Adjunct Professor for the University of South Australia, Adelaide.