R. John Young, Ph.D., founder and chairman of the McLaughlin Young Group, is an international authority on the leadership of change and especially its impact on cultural integration, organizational effectiveness and the health and profitability of corporations.

For more than 30 years he has been coaching chief executives and their direct reports to lead change. He specializes in assessing leadership potential, working with a leadership team to develop its change management plan and then coaching each executive to appropriately lead, collaborate or follow. He uses both established and proprietary instrumentation to help his clients truly know themselves, their impact on others and what it is that attracts others to follow them.

With an undergraduate degree from the University of London and a doctorate degree from Purdue University in the psychology of exercise, Dr. Young has a unique and diverse academic background. He also completed postdoctoral research in the psychology of aging at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He has published numerous scientific papers on the psychology of exercise and adult development and aging and has taught at Washington University, Purdue University and the University of North Carolina. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and is a past president of the Society of Prospective Medicine.  A division of the Institute for Health and Productivity Management, the Society of Prospective Medicine is a professional association dedicated to the scientific estimation of health risks and to the communication of those risks to individuals and organizations.

Following his academic career, Dr. Young directed a corporate human resources function, founded a rural-based institute of preventive medicine and directed an institute that was part of a major medical center in the southeast United States. In 1987 he founded the McLaughlin Young Group that now consists of McLaughlin Young Consulting, McLaughlin Young Employee Services and the McLaughlin Young Institute. McLaughlin Young’s proprietary products, services and solutions are in the areas of cultural integration, organizational effectiveness, leadership education and coaching, executive assessment, management training and development, employee assistance programs, health risk assessment and human factors research.

Dr. Young regularly conducts a highly interactive and self-discovering seminar for senior executives at Ballynahinch Castle in the west of Ireland. This seminar, Trusted and Effective Leadership—Reclaiming the Creativity to Lead Change, serves as a powerful introduction to the McLaughlin Young executive coaching process and provides participants with the insight needed to become effective leaders amidst the growing pressures that result from change.

Dr. Young is the author of the highly acclaimed book The Five Essential Leadership Questions:  Living with Passion, Leading through Trust.

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