Mohamad Ariff Azahari is an accredited Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTIŽ trainer and administrator, certified by the Asianic Psychologists Press (APP), Australia. He is a qualified Professional Colour, Style and Image Consultant trained and certified by The Australian Image Company (TAIC), Victoria, Australia. In the field of Emotional Intelligence (EQ), he was trained as a Certified Associate by Six Seconds International Emotional Intelligence Network (USA). And in the field of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), he is an Alumni (Green Belt) of ESQ Way 165, ESQ (Emotional Spiritual Quotient) Leadership Training Centre, Jakarta, Indonesia. He was trained in NLP Linguistic Wizardry by Jonathan Altfeld of Mastery InSight Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

In July 2002, he was recognised as a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM), the highest recognition given by Toastmasters International for his outstanding accomplishment and leadership excellence in the pursuit to making effective oral communication a worldwide reality. He is the first Bumiputra in Sarawak to receive such recognition.  In 2006, he emerged Champion in the International Speech Contest for District 51 (Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei) and competed in the qualifying round for the World Championship of Public Speaking in Washington DC, USA. He served as the District Governor, the highest leadership position in District 87, serving more than 2,600 members in Brunei, Indonesia and East Malaysia.

He has fifteen years of banking and management experience in the corporate sector serving several multi-national companies namely HSBC, ROCHE (Malaysia) and PhileoAllied Bank in Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Sabah and Sarawak. Prior to his career as a professional trainer and speaker, he was the Investment Sales Manager in MAYBANK. He is currently pursuing his Executive MBA (UK).

For the last nine years, he has enhanced the work lives of thousands of individuals in a wide variety of fields across Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. To date, he has conducted more than 1,000 programs. Being an energetic and results-oriented consultant, he takes great pride in developing and motivating his clients to exercise their personal learning styles to grasp and retain new information quickly.


Mohamad Ariff Azahari
Principal Consultant
Positive Impressions