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, Universiti Malaya's Dept of Counseling
& Educational Psychology, he has taught more than 20 years in
Universiti Malaya. He was also the pioneering Director of
Universiti Malaya Centre for Continuing Education.
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 its use in helping
individuals to develop their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) &
creativity, Dr. Yong has consulted and conducted numerous
training workshops on EQ and Creative Thinking for leaders in
organizations such as British Petroleum (BP), Microsoft
Thailand, Cathay Pacific Airlines, Thai Securities Exchange
Commission, Readers Digest, Reuters, Chularat Hospital Thailand,
Rasa Saying Hotel, Pelangi Hotel, Equatorial Hotel, Cititel
Hotel, Horwath International, Tan Chong Motors, Maybank, Acer
Technology, Motorola, Intel. Kian Holdings, Public Packages
Holdings, Unilever Thailand, Syngenta, Carat Club, B Braun,
Istana Hotel, Young Entrepreuneurs Organization (YEO), Young
Presidents Organizations(YPO), Petronas, Kuwait Petroleum
Company, Oman Petroleum Company and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO).
Dr. Yong has addressed groups in many countries such as the
United States of America, Austria, Britain, Australia, France,
New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, China, India, Korea,
Indonesia, Burma, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand 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.
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 Behavior and
Education Quarterly. He is a member of the American
Psychological Association, American Counselling Association and
the Malaysian Psychological Association.