Travels From New South Wales
Speaker Topics
Courage and Resilience
Our resilience blueprint is individual to us, meaning our specific distressing events is what creates resiliency in us, and the approach we take to get through it is what builds our blueprint.
Human Disruptor
Yemi Penn will inspire attendees and move them to action by sharing tools and challenging attendees to start with themselves by being curious about their belief systems and challenging the status quo in the process.
Key takeaways:
- Remembering the curiosity of the inner child
- Understanding that rebelling without kindness is counterproductive
- Increased creativity and collaboration
- An understanding of how to challenge the status quo to move things forward
- A handful of tools and anchors to bring about desired results from being curious.
Inclusion and Belonging
Tapping into her research, Yemi shares how our belief systems subconsciously exclude others. How much the body keeps the score yet we all have a common need to belong.
Managing uncertainty
Understanding our primary needs and how this relates to our resilience blueprint when dealing with uncertain times
Sustainable Peak Performance + Mindset Transformation
Liminal means threshold. To solve problems, we will need to shift our perspectives and change the mindset in which these problems were created by testing our threshold.
Read lessYemi Penn
Engineer by profession, entrepreneur by passion, leader by mission, Yemi Penn believes in disrupting the status quo to evoke radical change.
Yemi Penn is a global transformation thought leader, since 2017, who explores how to ignite your Rebellious Curiosity at an individual, team and organisational level. With a strong focus on helping businesses and individuals make complex problems simple.
Yemi is a global speaker and facilitator on Belonging, Liminal Thinking and Transformation. Yemi represented Australia at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, being a part of the Female Founders Mission group, and speaking at the Women’s Economic Forum in London. As well as featuring in a number of worldwide media outlets such as The Age, Sky News, Women’s Agenda and Australia News to name a few.
Yemi’s keynotes go beyond a typical presentation of inspiration; she moves her audience to action by inviting them to start with ‘self’. She helps to empower individuals to build high-performing teams by pinpointing current issues and creating effective solutions. Yemi has a unique ability to cut through surface-level conversation by asking high-quality questions. Working closely with organisations to understand the dynamics of their team, providing strategies to work smarter not harder. Yemi believes appreciating the growth of businesses and empowering individuals is essential to reach the fullest potential and foster sustainable success.
Yemi has recently designed and facilitated round table discussions with BT, SalesForce, PayPal, Macquarie Bank and Commonwealth Bank on Gender Equity in cyber security. Also discussing the emerging challenge businesses face in bringing teams back into the physical working space.
With a strong recognition on the importance of people and connection, Yemi explores how once this is established authentically, wellness, transformation, and productivity can be achieved within any organisation.
Yemi holds deep dive sessions following her keynote presentations to create a space for the conversations to go wherever they need to. Inviting the attendees to ignite their rebellious curiosity by asking and answering high-quality questions to embed a deeper understanding.