Dr. Oyinkansola Alabi The Emotions Doctor

A teacher, a healer, and a pioneer of emotional intelligence in Africa

Building Africa's most respected institutional home for emotional intelligence for nearly two decades.

Dr. Oyinkansola Alabi, known across Africa and the global diaspora as The Emotions Doctor, is the founder of Emotions City and EQ House of Africa. As the first African to attend the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, she has spent nearly two decades translating the science of EI into culturally rooted practice for individuals, organisations, and communities.

She is a Six Seconds Network Emotional Intelligence Practitioner and Assessor, a Goldman Sachs Scholar, a US Army Behavioral Health Specialist, and a recipient of the US Army Achievement Medal. The United States government has formally recognised her as an Alien of Extraordinary Ability. She holds a Ph.D. (Honoris Causa) in Behavioral Psychology, is a Cornell-trained Human Resource Executive, a Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapist, and a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist.

Through Emotions City, Oyinkansola has trained tens of thousands of executives across organisations including KPMG, Guinness, Multichoice, Interswitch, First Bank, Stanbic IBTC, FCMB, Alder Consulting, and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. Her work has taken her across Africa, the UAE, the UK, and the United States. To date, she has certified over 401 Emotional Intelligence Specialists across more than 40 countries, and her programmes have produced more than 200 Emotions City graduates creating value worldwide.

In 2019 and again in 2022, she was recognised as one of the 100 most influential and impactful women in Nigeria. She is the convener of the first Emotional Intelligence Week in Africa, a member of the Forbes Business Council, and the American Psychological Association.

EQ House of Africa is the institutional home she built for the work that matters most to her: ensuring that Africans in the diaspora and on the continent have a place where their emotional lives are seen, named, and held. An author, musical artist, and spiritual leader, Oyinkansola continues to expand what emotional intelligence means for African excellence worldwide.