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Igniting your Rebellious Curiosity

Yemi Penn

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Yemi Penn: Fearless entrepreneur and compassionate leader. Embrace her rebellious curiosity to unlock unprecedented growth.

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5 out of 5 stars

Yemi has a magical ability to connect with large audiences, bring them on a journey of self discovery, whilst embracing their own vulnerability. Yemi is an unexpected powerhouse of emotions and inspiration. She engaged our audience through challenging questions, difficult conversation and well timed humour.

Sumathi Murthy, Lead content creator, The Outside See all references

Reasons to book Yemi Penn

  • Trailblazer in Resilience Coaching: Yemi’s innovative approach to resilience coaching has garnered international acclaim, empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the face of adversity.
  • TEDx Speaker on Transformational Leadership: Yemi’s TEDx talks on transformational leadership have inspired millions, offering practical strategies for driving positive change and growth.
  • Spark Innovation with Rebellious Curiosity: Yemi Penn’s keynotes ignite a spirit of curiosity, paving the way for groundbreaking innovation and transformative growth.
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Uncover the transformative prowess of Yemi Penn's leadership. With her unparalleled blend of courage, compassion, and innovation, Yemi empowers teams and executives to unlock their full potential. From challenging the status quo to fostering inclusive growth, Yemi's guidance promises sustainable success. Experience her unique methodology, honed through years of experience, and witness your organization transcend limitations to achieve unparalleled excellence.

Reasons to book Yemi Penn

  • Trailblazer in Resilience Coaching: Yemi’s innovative approach to resilience coaching has garnered international acclaim, empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the face of adversity.
  • TEDx Speaker on Transformational Leadership: Yemi’s TEDx talks on transformational leadership have inspired millions, offering practical strategies for driving positive change and growth.
  • Spark Innovation with Rebellious Curiosity: Yemi Penn’s keynotes ignite a spirit of curiosity, paving the way for groundbreaking innovation and transformative growth.

Yemi Penn is a courageous, powerful, kind and compassionate thought leader. Her drive for excellence through energetic brilliance is a rare find. Her desire to grow and encourage others to grow from challenges and diversity of thought is the reason why clients work with her time and time again, she invites teams, senior leaders and executives to ignite their Rebellious Curiosity.

An engineer by profession and entrepreneur by passion having run 3 successful businesses in the past. She is now researching the alchemy of transmuting pain to power with a strong desire to learn new ways of being whilst challenging the status quo. Yemi invites the collective to ignite their rebellious curiosity in all aspects of their life, sharing the tools to do just that.

More recently Yemi has added documentary producer to her repertoire as she shifts her core life’s purpose to raising the vibration of acknowledging and healing our individual and therefore collective trauma, something individuals, communities and organisations alike have experienced over the past couple of years

With a proven track record as a thought leader in transformative leadership and resilience coaching, Yemi Penn stands out as the premier choice for organizations seeking meaningful change and sustainable progress. Book Yemi for your event today and embark on a journey of transformation and empowerment amidst nature’s embrace.

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Igniting your Rebellious Curiosity

We are born into an inherited narrative of what works and what doesn’t. 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 not only inspire attendees but 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 & IMMERSIONS:

  • Remembering the curiosity of the inner child.
  • Understanding that rebelling without kindness is counterproductive.
  • Finding creativity to collaboration.
  • An understanding and practical application 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.

WHO THIS IS FOR:
All levels in business, Senior Managers, Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Executives, Small & Medium sized business owners

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Liminal Thinking

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. 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 & IMMERSIONS:

  • Understand the key principles of Liminal thinking.
  • That thinking outside the box is redundant because there is no box inc. practical examples.
  • That acknowledging the elephant in the room and Emotional Intelligence resolves conflict, implementing ‘how’ this is done.
  • How you can as a leader create better relationships within organisations and teams.
  • A higher sense of compassion and understanding of those around you.

WHO THIS IS FOR:
Executives, Partners, Senior Leaders, Middle Management, Aspiring Leaders

Keynote by speaker Yemi Penn

Shame & Trauma 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.

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 when left dormant.
  • Resilient Blueprint – ‘Pain to Power’ mapping so that individuals can understand how to move to their position of power.
  • An understanding and application of ‘Event + Response = Outcome’.

WHO THIS IS FOR:
All levels within an organisation, managers, and leaders, particularly people working under intense pressure.

Keynote by speaker Yemi Penn

How to be an Ally

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.

Through keynotes, deep dives and immersions, 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 AND IMMERSIONS:

  • Understanding and application of the ‘Wheel of Power/Privilege’.
  • 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 and what this looks like in real life.
  • A sense of belonging for all.

WHO THIS IS FOR:
Executives, Senior Leaders, Charity and Not-for-Profit organisations, Media organisation

Keynote by speaker Yemi Penn

Building Courage & Resilience

Our resilience blueprint is individual to us, meaning our specific distressing events is what creates resiliency in us. This can be hard to see or understand because life can be demanding, making it difficult to understand what our primary needs are and the driving force(s) that limits our ability to be fully courageous.

Yemi shares her bespoke pain to power mapping tool to uncover our resilience blueprint. Sharing research, tools and approaches to building our resilience especially during times of uncertainty.

KEY TAKEAWAYS AND IMMERSIONS:

  • Understanding the concept of fear.
  • Getting curious about our personal beliefs attached to fear.
  • Pain to Power mapping.
  • Understanding the power of acknowledgement and radical honety.
  • Designing who we need ‘to be’ to be courageous.

WHO THIS IS FOR:
All levels in business, Senior Managers, Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Executives, Small & Medium sized business owners.

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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 wanted. It was an immense task and Yemi was beyond excellent in keeping people engaged, active and in good humour to work collaboratively and effectively.

University Technology Sydney

Yemi was very personable, sharing from her own experience built immediate rapport. Personally I was very impressed that Yemi was in the room for 2hrs prior to her session. This became evident in her presentation when she referred back to topics that previous speakers had discussed, making her key points more relevant to the audience.

Hammond Care

I just wanted to take the time to write back to say thank you for this session. Yemi is an incredible speaker and the session far exceeded my expectations! I’ve been involved in other mentoring programs before and they didn’t have something quite like this / to this quality before.

Transgrid

Yemi has a magical ability to connect with large audiences, bring them on a journey of self discovery, whilst embracing their own vulnerability. Yemi is an unexpected powerhouse of emotions and inspiration. She engaged our audience through challenging questions, difficult conversation and well timed humour.

Sumathi Murthy

Lead content creator, The Outside

Yemi spoke at ANSTO’s International Women’s Day event. 2020 has been tough – for everyone and in many different ways. However, Yemi’s message of resilience and perspective was the exact message we needed to get through a challenging year. Yemi is engaging, raw and challenges the status quo. Our team was inspired by her bravery to share, which created an atmosphere for growth and vulnerability. For those looking to embed their learnings in a fun and practical way, Yemi’s book ‘Did You Get the Memo’ will add another dimension to your self growth toolkit.

Shaun Jenkinson

CEO, Ansto
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5 out of 5 stars

Yemi has a magical ability to connect with large audiences, bring them on a journey of self discovery, whilst embracing their own vulnerability. Yemi is an unexpected powerhouse of emotions and inspiration. She engaged our audience through challenging questions, difficult conversation and well timed humour.

Sumathi Murthy, Lead content creator, The Outside See all references

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