Yemi Penn

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.

Tapping into her research, Yemi shares how our belief systems subconsciously exclude others. How much the body keeps the score yet we all have a common need to belong.

Understanding our primary needs and how this relates to our resilience blueprint when dealing with uncertain times.

What is rebellious curiosity? It is the pathway to:

• Knowing who we are and the roles we play
• Having compassion for self and others
• Questioning all things that just are the way they are
• Making changes when things don’t work

I believe rebellious curiosity will move us all forward to a place where everything works, because we all took the time to think critically about how things could be
better, and make the necessary changes, even the uncomfortable ones.

I encourage teams and organisations to start today; what are you overlooking because it just is the way it is?

Methodology

Yemi’s superpower is to meet people wherever they are, even with intense disagreement. In staying curious with a trained ability to tap into empathy she is able to reach a common ground that avoids a ‘zero sum gain’ scenario.

Yemi is renowned for highlighting the elephant in the room, ensuring no one gets trampled on, asking high quality questions to empower individuals, teams and organisations to be pivotal to their transformation process.

Yemi utilises a teach, reflect, share and act methodology in all of her offerings, using the framework in figure 1 to ultimately alchemise pain points to power.

Recognition: Recognising that issues exist in all aspects of life and business

Acknowledgement: Acknowledging our individual challenges before tackling organisational ones

Cleaning: This requires digging deep into our roles in finding solutions to challenges

Understanding: Providing understanding and a safe space for others to remain curious in their transformation process

Compassion: Building and incorporating emotional intelligence into how we live and work

How Yemi works

• Initial consultation to understand the problem and opportunity
• Co-create with key stakeholders the appropriate mode/medium
• Based on the above, a succinct proposal submitted for review and acceptance

Service offering

A range of services that contribute to the boosting of employee moral, revitalised
energy within teams, disruptor abilities, curiosity ignition, sense of belonging.

This is done through a range of offerings such as keynote delivery, facilitation of
conversations, deep dives and workshops, curation and co-creation of programs
consulting. Current offerings include – How to ignite your Rebellious Curiosity program, Liminal Leadership program.

Benefits to Organisation

- Improved employee wellness
- Reduced turnover, higher staff retention
- Better employee engagement
- Higher employee referral
- Innovation through better disrupting practices
- Healthy profits
- Improved client feedback

Liminal means threshold. To solve problems, we will need to shift our perspectives and change the mindset in which these problems were created by testing our threshold.