Award-Winning Leadership Speaker
“A 11 out of 10 experience!”
Yassmin is also available for facilitation and consulting. For more information on those offerings, click here.
We've all heard about the concept of 'unconscious bias', but what does it actually mean? In this engaging and informative talk, Yassmin Abdel-Magied will use personal experience backed up by research to illustrate the impacts of bias on our workplaces. She will also share what we can all do about it, so that we create safer, and fairer and more productive workplaces for all.
From Black Lives Matter to ChatGPT, the world - and workplaces - are changing at a rapid pace. Leading an organisation through transformational change, is no easy feat. Yassmin expertly combines personal experience and research to inform leaders on the tools of transformative leadership, the common mistakes leaders can make, and how to be a just and empowering leader for the 21st century.
The stories we tell ourselves shape our world, and the possibilities we see within it. Having published award-winning books and writing for the screen and stage, Yassmin is an expert storyteller. In this talk, she shares her creative secrets, and demonstrates how storytelling tools can empower each and every individual to reframe challenges, overcome failure and be more empowered than ever before.
Yassmin’s internationally acclaimed TED talk, What does my headscarf mean to you, has been viewed over 2.6 million times and was chosen as one of TED’s annual top ten ideas.
The session used real-life stories to inspire the necessary change that we often are scared to lean into during times of uncertainty.
A great balance of inspirational dialogue with personal stories that leaves the audience feeling courageous enough to lead their next endeavour with confidence.
- Camila Whyte, Senior Program Manager, Nielsen on ‘Leadership through Change’ keynote,
Such a fun, interesting, and inspiring end to the day, and people were raving afterwards! A joy to work with.
- Women in Leadership, Edinburgh
The first time I saw Yassmin present I was hugely impressed. Speaking to an dominantly white, middle aged male audience from the petroleum industry, Yassmin spoke about inclusiveness and diversity and blew them away. She won over a potentially skeptical audience with personal stories, charm, warmth, humour, and importantly, a gentle provocation that simply gets individuals to consider why we think the way we always have, and do we need to reassess. She makes a difference!
James Johnson, CEO, Geoscience Australia
Ben Bengougam, Senior Vice President Human Resources EMEA at Hilton
Again thank you so much for speaking at our virtual session yesterday! It was extremely well received by the participants – afterwards we heard words like ‘incredibly inspirational’, ‘ready to take on the world now!’, ‘what a positive force’! Thank you for sharing your wisdom, your smile and your ‘sparkle’ with us!
Dailah Nilhot, Management Board of NN Group, Netherlands
Lois Creamer, National Speakers Association, Orlando, USA
Yassmin, You truly hit the mark with the XLPs. Thank you for highlighting that they should look closely at power structures and what diversity means for them locally. I’m not sure they have heard it that way, but it resonated along with the data, history and your personal story. Thank you!
Tanya Spencer, Accelerated Leadership Program (XLP) Manager, GE Global
Guest Editor for Virgin’s International Women’s Day Series, as well as host of the acclaimed Virgin Podcast, Breaking Barriers. Featured in internal and external IWD content.
12 month partnership with LinkedIn to open up the conversations around unconscious bias at work. Continued working with LinkedIn on Tiktok via the #Teammates partnership.
