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Yassmin  Abdel-Magied

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Advocates for the empowerment of youth, women and those from racially, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

In-Person Fee Range:
$15,001 - $20,000
Virtual Fee Range:
$15,001 - $20,000
Traveling from:
England
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Advocates for the empowerment of youth, women and those from racially, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

In-Person Fee Range:
$15,001 - $20,000
Fee Details
Virtual Fee Range:
$15,001 - $20,000
Fee Details
Traveling from:
England

Why Book

  • 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

Biography

2015 Queensland Young Australian of the Year, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a mechanical engineer, social advocate, writer and ‘petrol head’. Debut author at 24 with the coming-of-age-memoir, Yassmin’s Story, the 2015 Queensland Young Australian of the Year advocates for the empowerment of youth, women and those from racially, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Yassmin is passionate about making ‘diversity’ the norm.

HISTORY | Born in Sudan, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and her family arrived in Australia just before she turned two and since then has devoted her energy and to making the world a more equal place through a combination of technical and social skill. At age 16, she founded Youth Without Borders, an organisation that empowers young people to realise their full potential through collaborative, community based programs. Yassmin Abdel-Magied was the first female hired as a field engineer in PathFinder, a Schlumberger company. She then worked as a wellsite drilling engineer for Shell before beginning a writing and broadcasting career full-time.

GOVERNANCE & ADVISORY | She is a sought-after advisor for federal governments and international bodies, having sat on the Australian Multicultural Council, the Board of the Queensland Museum and the Design Council. She was Head of Media on the organising committee of the 2014 Youth G20 Summit and currently sits on the Boards of ChildFund, The Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) and the domestic violence prevention organisation, OurWatch. She is the Gender Ambassador for the Inter-American Development Bank and has represented Australia through multiple diplomatic programs across the globe.

COMMENTARY | Yassmin has written extensively, her writing appearing in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, AFR, The Griffith Review, Huffington Post and others. MEDIA | Yassmin is also a TV presenter, currently hosting ABC’s weekly show, Australia Wide. She is a regular on Q&A, The Drum, The Project, and internationally on the BBC. On radio, Yassmin is a regular on Triple J’s Hack, Radio National, and moonlights as a casual broadcaster on ABC Local. She is the host of the motorsport podcast Motor Mouth, and is the host for the groundbreaking documentary The Truth About Racism, due for release in March 2017. Yassmin’s TED talk, What does my headscarf mean to you, has over 1.5 million views.

AWARDS | Yassmin’s advocacy work has been recognised with many awards. She was named one of Australia’s most influential engineers by Engineers Australia, and been recognised for her work in diversity by the United Kingdom’s Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Yassmin was the youngest woman named in Australia’s 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review in 2012, was the Young Muslim of the Year in 2007 and Muslim Youth of the Year in 2015. On her time off, Yassmin travels to F1 races as an internationally accredited journalist and is the motorsport correspondent for The Saturday Paper.

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Programs

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

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 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.

Embracing Change

We’ve all had moments where we feel like we have reached rock bottom. Failure – real, true, grinding failure – is hard to survive and even more difficult to thrive from. Yassmin Abdel-Magied weaves a heartfelt and compelling tale of three points of failure in her life and career. Some self wrought and others inflicted, Yassmin will share what happened, how she got through them and what she learnt along the way. 

Transformative Leadership

The world is changing at a rapid pace, and the importance of inclusion and diversity is clearer than ever. Leading an organisation through transformational change however, is no easy feat. Yassmin Abdel-Magied 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.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied Reviews

“Yassmin delivered a keynote address to a group of 400 senior global managers. She maintained the attention of the group by delivering 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 at the IMD  

Feedback from engineers after Keynote at the ‘Engineering A Better World Conference’ hosted by Royal Academy of Engineering in London: · 97.3% rated the topic as good or excellent · 94.4% rated the content as good or excellent · 97.1% rated the presentation/delivery as good or excellent – 87.14% of which was in the excellent column. “These were, by far, the highest marks received by any speaker on the day.”

— International Development Manager, RAEng

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