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Yemi Penn
Yemi Penn helps organisations navigate cultural transformation, drawing on her Rebellious Curiosity and Cultural Peace Brokering frameworks. An engineer, keynote speaker, and STEM equity advocate, she holds the Nancy Millis Medal for research excellence.
Yemi Penn is an engineer, entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker who helps organisations do the harder work of cultural transformation.
She holds a BEng, an MSc, and a PhD, and received the Nancy Millis Medal for research excellence, placing her doctorate in the top 5% nationally in Australia. A self-made single mother who came through homelessness, she has built a career spanning London, Lagos, and Sydney. She founded two frameworks, Rebellious Curiosity and Cultural Peace Brokering, evidence-based models now used by companies, governments, schools, and communities.
Yemi applies an engineer's diagnostic habit to culture. Rather than starting from values statements, she works from where trust breaks down and what holds it together, which is why her sessions land with technical audiences as readily as with HR. She delivered a TEDx talk at TEDxOcala on the transformative power of trauma, and wrote Did You Get the Memo?, on personal transformation and leadership.
Audiences leave with language for the conversations their organisation has been avoiding, a clearer read on where inclusion efforts stall, and a framework they can apply without a consultant in the room. She's worked with organisations including Thales, the University of Technology Sydney, and the Northern Territory Department of Education, and is founder and CTO of several ventures, including Nexus Mars, Engage Blu, and Creddeo.
Book Yemi for audiences ready to be challenged rather than reassured.
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