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Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Founder and Chair of an organisation based in Australia, Youth Without Borders
  • 2015 Queensland Young Australian of the Year
  • Named Australia’s most influential Young Woman and engineer
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$20,000 - $30,000
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied Speaker Biography

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is on a mission to promote diversity and empower young people throughout society, however and wherever she can. Born in Sudan, she moved to Australia when she was two years old, and trained as a mechanical engineer. She now spends her time both working as an engineer on oil and gas rigs and heading up Youth Without Borders, the organization she founded at sixteen to empower young people as leaders of positive change through collaborative community initiatives.  

The 2015 Young Australian of the Year (QLD), Yassmin Abdel-Magied advocates for the empowerment of youth, women and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.   

Yassmin Abdel-Magied was named one of Australia’s most influential engineers by Engineers Australia and in 2012 she was named Australia’s most influential Young Woman. In 2007, she was the Young Australian Muslim of the Year for her work in the community.  She also really likes motorsports, travelling to Formula 1 races as an internationally accredited journalist on her time off.  

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Speech Topics

Beating Your Bias

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 both our workplaces and community. She will also share what we can all do about it, so that we can create safer, fairer, and more productive workplaces for all.

You will learn to:
• identify your own biases, as well as the biases that inform your company and industry culture
• understand the impact of biases on those around you and your business performance
• challenge these biases and their impacts to both improve your workplaces and community

 
 

Valuing diversity and beating bias:    

  • Unconscious bias: what is it and how can we deal with it?      
  • Diversity: The importance of acknowledging diversity for social growth and innovation

Harnessing Diversity:    

  • Women in male dominated industries (challenges and benefits, etc)    
  • Faith and Culture as enablers for change and leadership

Leadership   

  • Age is never a barrier to getting involved!    
  • How to become a leader and achieve change 
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“Yassmin’s presentation was very well received and she was a delight to work with. Please pass along my gratitude to her for a talk that was right on target. The feedback was terrific.”

CEO, Image Media, Inc.

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 sceptical 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. As Yassmin puts it, being young, female, brown and Muslim, she’s a walking minority and has a good handle on what it takes to feel included. Her talk, and a generous Q and A that followed, generated a buzz of excitement and catalysed many constructive conversations in my organisation. Yassmin added real value to our journey towards a better organisational culture. She makes a difference!

Chief Executive Officer, Geoscience Australia

Yassmin delivered a keynote address to a group of 400 senior global managers. She delivered a set of simple and powerful messages in a very personal and compelling way. She has developed a level of insight and maturity well beyond her years.

Professor of Innovation and Strategy, IMD, Switzerland

Yassmin is such a natural and gifted presenter – her fierce intelligence, her empathy and her humour made it one of the best stage presentations I’ve ever seen.

Women in Leadership Showcase

We loved Yassmin’s energy and her helpful advice on mentorship, unconscious bias, and tackling diversity and inclusion issues in the workplace. Thank you Yassmin!

Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

An outstanding, inspirational, insightful, connected, topical and learning laden presentation… You are the best keynote we have ever had.

Senior Vice President Human Resources EMEA at Hilton

You were absolutely AMAZING today! My phone was blowing up with people thanking me and in awe of everything you shared. They were seriously shouting Halleluiah praises!! We are so grateful for your time, message, encouragement & positive energy!

Director of Employee Engagement, Ken Garff Automotive