Dr YVONNE SUM

CSP, ACMC, NLPTT, BDS Hon

Dr Yvonne Sum is on a quest to transform leaders.

Dr Yvonne Sum brings out the authentic best in people simply by her energy and unwavering belief that everyone is born a genius. She is a pioneer in Parent Leadership coaching: inspiring professional and executive parents, and also eloquently translating this concept to reinstate heart and soul back to corporate and professional organizations. She is a dynamic speaker, facilitator and personal coach using cognitive behavioural and self actualizing psychology in an accelerated learning environment.

Dr Sum transforms leaders in her energetic training and coaching programs, tailored to the client’s specific outcomes and cultural needs. Her Transformational Leadership Challenge™ (TLC) series using her Parent Leadership model as a metaphor for business and community leadership from the heart, incorporates work-life balance and fosters learning partnerships at all levels of the organization and community.

Yvonne’s depth of international experience and breadth of clientele span across Australia, the USA and Asia Pacific: including Allens Arthur Robinson, Chanel, Credit Union of Australia, Freehills, Estee Lauder, GHD, Jemena, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly Clark, Malaysian Government, MerckSharpe & Dohme, Microsoft, Nestle, Pfizer, Phillips, Sydney University, Thomas & Coffey and Westpac.

She presented her thought-provoking keynote TLC for Professional Women alongside Edward de Bono, Tony Buzan, Tun Dr Mahathir, Howard Gardner, Glen Capelli and Colin James at the recent 14th International Conference of Thinking 2009 in Kuala Lumpur.

Yvonne has made personal transformations through diverse contexts: from being an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, to dental surgeon in entrepreneurial practice, media consultant and resident health expert on Australian national lifestyle television At Home with John Mangos, Midday Show, Today Show, Good Medicine and Second Opinion, feature writer for Dental Asia and The Sarawak Tribune, professional actor and presenter, and now expresses her passion as an international keynote speaker, leadership facilitator, transformational coach, business woman, wife and mother.

Dr Sum is an internationally certified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) & Neuro-Semantic (NS) Trainer through the Global NLP Trainers Alliance and is accredited in: BlessingWhite programs (eg MPG, Leading Technical Professionals, Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?), Cert IV WAT, DiSC, Educational Kinesiology, Firo-B, LSI, MBTI I & II, Meta-Coaching.

Be it a book, blog, twitter, tele-class, one-on-one coaching, group facilitation session or a key note presentation: Yvonne makes it simple and no simpler. Yvonne enjoys being with people: simply to co-create joyful learning partnerships.

Dr Yvonne Sum transforms the leader in you. You will find her powerfully inspirational.