Jeffrey Yip

Jeffrey Yip is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Beedie School of Business. His research is in the areas of leadership, mentoring, and career development. His professional experience includes work in leadership development at the Center for Creative Leadership, as co-founder of the Halogen Foundation in Singapore, and as a consultant to public and private organizations.

Prior to SFU, Jeffrey taught graduate courses in organizational psychology, interpersonal dynamics, and talent management at at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Boston University. At CGU, he directed the Talent Science Lab and served as an advisor to the Accenture Talent Innovation Lab. He currently directs ListeningWorks - a research initiative on listening and serves as representative-at-large for the Academy of Management Careers Division.

His work has been supported by research fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, the Lim Kim San Fellowship from Singapore Management University, a research fellowship from the Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) at Harvard University, and the Arnon Reichers Best Paper award from the Academy of Management.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Leadership, Mentoring and Coaching, Career Development, Talent Management

Companies

• Founder and Director ListeningWorks (2019)
• Assistant Professor Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University (2019)
• Advisor, Accenture Talent Innovation Lab Accenture (2017 — 2019)
• Founder and Director Talent Science Lab (2016 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor Claremont Graduate University (2015 — 2019)
• Visiting Researcher Center for Creative Leadership (2009 — 2015)
• Lecturer and PhD Candidate Boston University (2009 — 2014)
• Co-founder and Board Member Halogen Foundation Singapore (2003 — 2012)
• Research Fellow Harvard University, Learning Innovations Laboratory (2008 — 2009)

Education

• PhD Boston University - School of Management (2009 — 2015)
• Masters Harvard University (2004 — 2005)
• BA (Upper Class Honors) and Masters in Social Science National University of Singapore (1998 — 2004)