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Kam Yew Ph.D
Kam Yew Quick Facts
Main Areas: Creativity & Innovation in Government and BusinessBest Sellers: You Are Creative - Let Your Creativity
Career Focus: Speaker, Author, Facilitator, Consultant
Provocative Mind Unzipper Dr.YKK ( Kam K. Yew) is acknowledged as a Distinguished Talent on creativity by the Australian government . A member of Mensa, he was the only person from the British Commonwealth countries who was selected to serve on the panel of creativity expert advisers to Lego on its global project “The Next Generation Forum”.
Dr.YKK has been described as an energetic speaker, a provocative mind unzipper, an entertaining laughter guru, a masterful story-teller and bestselling author all rolled into one. This together with his wide international exposure and diverse work experience enable him to connect well with his audience.
Bestselling Author Dr. YKK has written and published 10 books on creativity. His best-selling book (reprinted 10 times) : “You Are Creative-Let Your Creativity Bloom” has received the endorsements of CEOs, professionals, managers, students, teachers, parents and other prominent personalities from all over the world. His other books include : “ Creative Business Challenges –Innovative Business Solutions” and “ Nurturing Creative Children .”
His books have been translated into Chinese, Malay, Croatian and Slovenian.
Creative Thinking Most enterprises waste untapped financial potentials which may be released by the practice of creative thinking. Using skillfully designed yet simple exercises with profound impacts, Dr.YKK interaction with his audience allow them to discover their latent creative thinking skills. The powerful de-briefing opens their minds to the practical application of their newly re-discovered skills in idea generation and solution finding. Be warned that your mind once stretched may never return to its original dimensions! The elasticity, the stretching skills once acquired stays.
Business Innovations Supported by latest stories and surveys of global business innovations, Dr.YKK provides convincing evidence that the most profitable business in the world is selling imagination. He shares principles, provides practical techniques and involved his participants on the what, why and how of business innovations. You leave the session with a new found confidence of being able to stand out from your competition.
With the right processes in place, World Class enterprises are continuously benefiting from business innovations brought by their own staff at all levels. Higher motivation of the staff and a spirit of belonging to the company are thus experienced. The payback of creating the culture of business innovation exceeds many-folds the investment.
Creative Strategies
Many multinational corporations have found Dr.YKK’s pre-strategy planning session as an invaluable exercise in mind opening and out-of-the-box thinking. It acts like a catalyst that elevates their corporate planning to a whole new level. The managers become more enthusiastic and better equipped to face the challenges ahead.
Dr.YKK’s Presentation Style
- Tailors dynamic presentation to the client’s needs
- Uses laughter as an introduction to set the mood for exuberance and creativity
- Relates topic to global developments
- Inspires audience participation
- Unzips participants minds through simple yet profound
Mindxercises
- Tells real life business innovation stories that relate to the client
- Shares unconventional and provocative ideas to bring client’s business to a new and higher level
- Calls for ACTION at the end of the presentation
Creative Services
- Keynote speeches at international and professional conventions
- Presentations prior to strategic and corporate planning sessions to provoke executives to think differently so as to come out with new ideas
- Workshops tailored to client’s specific needs relating to creativity, business process, sales & marketing and product innovations.
- Facilitation on idea generation and problem-solving sessions
- Follow-up sessions to transform ideas to reality
Dr.YKK presented talks and conducted workshops in many parts of the world including: Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, China, India, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, etc Dr.YKK holds a B.Sc(Hons.) degree from Malaysia, an Advanced Diploma from New Zealand and a Ph.D from U.K.
He is married with four children. Travelling is one of his passions and he has been to over 50 countries. Another passion is learning new knowledge. He lives a life of adventure and has experienced skydiving, scuba-diving, mountain-climbing, water-skiing, theme-park rides, caves exploring, etc.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Kam Yew
My Favorite Quotes on Creativity
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
Albert Einstein.
The infusion of laughter can dramatically increase learning, creativity, innovation and productivity.
John Sweeney
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye
Winston Churchill
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits.
Edward de Bono
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
Edward de Bono
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
Getting Started With Kam Yew
Dr.YKK (Kam Keong Yew, Ph.D) is acknowledged as a Distinguished Talent on creativity by the Australian government . A member of Mensa, he was the only person from the British Commonwealth countries who was selected to serve on the panel of creativity expert advisers to Lego on its global project “The Next Generation Forum”.
He. is an international speaker, trainer, consultant and best-selling author in the field of creativity.
Dr YKK presents tailored keynote speeches and conducts creativity sessions for the corporate and public sectors. He believes in life-long learning and living life to the full. Adventure sports such as skydiving, whitewtater-rafting, mountain climbing, etc keep him attuned to the world . He is married with his wife for 32 years and has four wonderful children. Dr.YKK can be contacted at DrYKK@mindbloom.net , The list of his clients and the testimonials received can be found at his website www.mindbloom.net
