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Rob Yeung, Ph.D. is a psychologist, business speaker, management author, TV presenter and Director at Talentspace, a leadership consulting firm. He helps people to achieve their potential.
Rob has a B.Sc. in psychology from University of Bristol and a Ph.D. in psychology from King's College London, University of London. He is a chartered psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His clients through Talentspace include Goldman Sachs, BBC, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, KPMG, British Airways, Baker Tilly, Eversheds, HSBC (as well as lots of much smaller businesses). He also worked for two years at a top tier consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group.
He has published research studies on personality in academic journals, particularly Personality and Individual Differences. He writes a column on confidence for UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph and contributes to newspapers including Financial Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
He appears on television programmes including Celebrity Big Brother, BBC Breakfast, CNN news, and Working Lunch on the BBC. He previously presented the BBC television series Who Would Hire You? in which real life candidates went through the recruitment process. He also presented a further series for the BBC entitled How To Get Your Dream Job and has been an expert on Big Brother's Little Brother. He was the resident psychologist for the 2007 BBC Three series The Restaurant: You're Fried! He acted as resident psychologist on both Celebrity Big Brother and Big Brother in 2009. He was on Channel 5 only last week, being interviewed alongside Paralympic athlete Sara Storey.
Rob also teaches at several universities including Southampton, University of East London, St. Andrews and University College Dublin.