Rebellious Curiosity disrupts status quo, evoking radical change.
Yemi Penn is a global thought leader on how to ignite your Rebellious Curiosity at an individual, team and organisational level.
An Engineer by profession and entrepreneur by passion, Yemi fuses analytical thinking with creativity to produce superior outcomes. She advocates for challenging the status quo, being a disruptor in all industries to bring about innovative and sometimes radical change.
She is a champion and steadfast advocate for equality and equity in STEM fields, inviting individuals to tap into their self-empowerment using her bespoke ‘pain to power’ mapping technique which unlocks their unique resilience blueprint.
Yemi is a force to be reckoned with and has inspired audiences across Australia, the United Kingdom, Africa and the United States, where she has delivered a TED talk on the TEDx Ocala stage in Florida.
Yemi’s superpower is meeting people wherever they are.
Current Work:
Yemi is a sought-after global speaker and facilitator on Belonging, Liminal Thinking and Transformation. She was the opening keynote speaker for PwC’s recent signature experience, ‘The Outside’, which saw over 3,000 of their staff experience a transformational residential over 3 days in NSW’s Hunter Valley region across five weeks.
Yemi’s keynotes go beyond a typical presentation of inspiration; she moves her audience to action by inviting them to start with ‘self’. She has a unique ability to cut through surface-level conversation by asking high-quality questions. She has recently designed and facilitated round table discussions with BT, SalesForce, PayPal, Macquarie Bank and Commonwealth Bank on Gender Equity in cyber security, as well as discussed the emerging challenge businesses face in bringing teams back into the physical working space.
Yemi is a chameleon across industries. She recognises the common thread is people and connection; once this is established in its most authentic form, wellness, transformation, and productivity can be achieved in any organisation.
Deep dive sessions following her keynote presentations are one of her specialities where people get the deepest learning and change. Through these deep dives, Yemi holds space for the conversations to go where it needs to, inviting the attendees to ignite their rebellious curiosity by asking and answering high-quality questions.
Previous Clients:
Speaker: Yemi has spoken at ANSTO, Hammond Care, University Technology of Sydney, NAWIC, WSP, Hitachi ABB, Business Chicks, Reckitt and many more.
She also represented Australia at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, forming part of the Female Founders Mission group and spoke at the Women’s Economic Forum in London.
Media: Yemi has featured in a number of worldwide media outlets sharing her story and tips for people to change theirs. This includes The Age, Sky News, Entrepreneur.com, Australia News, Women’s Agenda, Refinery29, MI Woman, Engineers Australia, ABC radio and more
Talking Points
Human Disruptor
We are born into an inherited narrative of what works and what doesn’t.Human Disruptor
We learn to go through life without question until something goes wrong, but even then, at times, we still stay quiet for fear of retribution, eradicating creativity, and collaboration. We learn to accept things because they are simply the way they are and have always been. This leads to people feeling unfulfilled, frustrated, and uninspired. Impacting their well-being and how they show up in life and at work.
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
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. This will require deconstruction of existing systems, requiring a bit of unreasonableness and the alchemy of bending reality.Sustainable Peak Performance + Mindset Transformation
Yemi Penn will share her formula for bending reality, sharing how the boundaries that usually cage us can be used as props to bring about superior outcomes.
Key takeaways:
- Understand the key principles of Liminal thinking
- That thinking outside the box is redundant because there is no box
- That acknowledging the elephant in the room and Emotional Intelligence resolves conflict
- How you can as a leader create better relationships within organisations and teams
- A higher sense of compassion and understanding of those around you
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.Courage and Resilience
Yemi Penn is a leading thought leader on Trauma in Australia, currently undertaking a PhD researching the transformative nature of trauma. She leads individuals and organisations through their pain points using her bespoke ‘pain to power’ mapping tool to empower people through their transformation. Paving the way for greater connection within teams and kinder organisations.
Key Takeaways:
- Shame is linked to trauma and is one of the most useless emotions
- Resilient Blueprint - ‘Pain to Power’ mapping so that individuals can understand how to move to their position of power
- An understanding that Event + Response = Outcome
- More resilient individuals and organisations
Who this is for: - All levels within an organisation, managers, and leaders, particularly people working under intense pressure.
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are living in disintegrated times, and so to do our part in creating a Just, Equal, Diverse, and Inclusive (JEDI) world, we will need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Through her research, Yemi shares how much the body keeps the score and builds unconscious bias in the most conscious of people. Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
Through keynotes and deep dives, Yemi holds the space for uncomfortable yet necessary conversations that are typically avoided because it is just too hard.
These necessary conversations allow organisations to move from feeling thwarted to thriving due to the sense of belonging created for all individuals.
Key Takeaways:
- The bio-diversity in permaculture principles that relate to a diverse workforce
- Deconstructing belief systems for individuals and organisations
- An understanding that the most flexible person influences the environment
- A sense of belonging for all
Who this is for: - Executives, Senior Leaders, Charity and Not-for-Profit organisations, Media organisation
Deep Dives
This offering works well they have no structure but are designed for Yemi to guide the conversation with deep listening following my keynote. We go deeper into the tools and concepts Yemi shares and create a safe space for the smaller group to participate. These deep dives are more intense than a keynote as it is emotional housekeeping and deeper integrated neurolinguistic programming.
Deep Dives
Round Table Discussions
In these discussions with the Senior Leadership teams, Yemi designs and facilitates difficult conversations in the workplace on topics such as race, gender, consent and allyship. These sessions are designed for small groups to begin with with the potential to extend the discussion into a Keynote for wider audiences.
Round Table Discussions
IWD 2024: Count Her In: Accelerating Gender Equality Through Economic Empowerment
In this Keynote Yemi addresses the IWD 2024 theme by focusing on pragmatic strategies and rebelliously curious ways to bridge the gender gap in economic spheres, inviting the collective to take actionable steps to make radical changes.IWD 2024: Count Her In: Accelerating Gender Equality Through Economic Empowerment
To count ‘her’ in, we will need everyone (all genders) to lean into the dialogue, operating outside of echo chambers, ensuring those we invite to the table are decision-makers and change agents for gender equality. Yemi will empower the audience to understand their role in the policies that shape paradigms and influence economic empowerment.
Through humour, research, lived experience and a bit of cheeky rebellion Yemi will meet all audiences wherever they are in the journey of championing gender equality, connecting the audience steadily yet deeply to the ‘why’, why we are where we are and why we need to continue to ‘be’ and ‘do’ the work.
Key Takeaways
- Understand why rebellious curiosity and liminal thinking is one way to clear the current pathway for greater economic inclusion for women and girls everywhere.
- Changing the narrative: although history has rarely been her-story, it leaves clues. Yemi will share the power of female narratives over the past decades. Using her research to glean wisdom from these case studies, Yemi will help the audience build a new narrative blueprint that empowers women and girls economically.
- Power and Privilege: We have got to name it, not to shame but to ‘call in’ those who underestimate the influence they have in changing the trajectory of gender equality for the better. Using liminal thinking, Yemi guides the audience, especially allies, to reframe how they see and use their power and privilege.
- Policy and Cultural Shifts: Yemi will outline the necessary internal shifts required to take place before influencing policy changes and cultural shifts, emphasising the role of corporations and communities in fostering an inclusive economic environment.
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Yemi Penn | Speaker Reel | Saxton Speakers
Yemi Penn is a global thought leader on empowerment and resilience. An Engineer by profession, Yemi is a champion and tireless advocate for equality and equity in STEM fields. As an Entrepreneur and Mindset Coach, she is an advocate for self-empowerment and resilience as tools to get organisations back on track with wellness and productivity. Yemi is a force to be reckoned with and has inspired audiences across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, where she recently delivered her first TED talk at TEDxOcala in Florida.Yemi Penn - Mindset Transformation Coach | Saxton Speakers
Yemi Penn is a global thought leader on empowerment and resilience. An Engineer by proYemi Penn is a global thought leader on empowerment and resilience. An Engineer by profession, Yemi is a champion and tireless advocate for equality and equity in STEM fields. As an Entrepreneur and Mindset Coach, she is an advocate for self-empowerment and resilience as tools to get organisations back on track with wellness and productivity. Yemi is a force to be reckoned with and has inspired audiences across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, where she recently delivered her first TED talk at TEDxOcala in Florida.F45 Global Leadership Conference | Yemi Penn | Saxton Speakers
Yemi Penn is a global thought leader on empowerment and resilience. An Engineer by profession, Yemi is a champion and tireless advocate for equality and equity in STEM fields. As an Entrepreneur and Mindset Coach, she is an advocate for self-empowerment and resilience as tools to get organisations back on track with wellness and productivity. Yemi is a force to be reckoned with and has inspired audiences across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, where she recently delivered her first TED talk at TEDxOcala in Florida.Do we choose the experience our trauma teaches us? | Yemi Penn | TEDxOcala
This talk dares humanity to acknowledge its individual trauma at the same time, detaching itself from a victim story. Guiding the collective to transmute its pain to power and be the change the world so desperately needs. Born in the UK, childhood in Nigeria, stint in Okinawa Japan and now living in Sydney, Australia, Yemi can be described as a citizen of the world! She is an Engineer by profession, an Entrepreneur by Passion and a Transformation Mindset Coach by mission; Yemi is dedicated to guiding others in unlocking their untapped potential. An introvert at heart having only recently found her ‘voice’, she is making up for lost time! Having authored her first book and podcast titled, ‘Did You Get the Memo?’ Yemi has featured in numerous publications in the U.K, Africa and Australia. Yemi run’s 3 businesses whilst parenting her two children in Sydney, Australia. One being her Engineering Management consultancy, an F45 Fitness studio in Brixton, London and her Transformation company under her brand of Yemi Penn. With qualifications ranging from project management to neurolinguistic programming, and methods taught to her personally by Jack Canfield and Tony Robbins, Yemi helps transmute pain to power.Yemi Penn interview with Jack Canfield | Saxton Speakers
As part of Jack Canfield's 'Talking About Success' series, he interviews Yemi Penn. Discussing her journey and dedication to raise the vibration around trauma and the healing of it.Audio
Yemi facilitated an extremely complex and challenging symposium over 2 days of multiple sessions with several stakeholders to help us achieve concrete outcomes and action plans that we wante ... keep reading University of Technology Sydney
Yemi is an engaging and authentic presenter. Her energy and connectedness invites her audience to journey with her through her presentation. Highly recommended!
Yemi was a fabulous opening keynote. She is inspiring.
