About

Meet Yasmin: The woman behind Y People Consulting

Yasmin has 20 years of real-world HR experience with over 15 years in management and senior roles across a broad cross section of industries, including: infrastructure; technology; manufacturing; agriculture; hospitality; not for profit; retail; and tourism. With experience that ranges from large national and multi-national businesses through to small business and start-ups, you can be assured that Yasmin will understand your unique needs.

Yasmin has been lucky to work in evolving businesses to build the HR function from the ground up, as well as working with fantastic mentors in established and successful organisations to ensure an understanding of both environments and the keys to success. Having a strong commercial and outcome focus, she understands the importance of partnering with stakeholders to achieve results and ensuring the HR strategy is matched to the overall goals of the business.

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With a passion for building capability and improving performance, Yasmin will help you focus on a positive business culture and strong employee engagement, resulting in a productive workforce and successful business.

Yasmin has a double Bachelor degree, with majors in Human Resources and Psychology as well as a habit of keeping up to date with the latest research and practises in the HR world.

One of the most important lessons that Yasmin has learned working in HR is that “people are people” and if we treat them as people, we can always get it right.

Outside of work hours, Yasmin spends time with her family, at the beach, surfing or in various creative pursuits including sewing, screen printing and resin art.

Skill Set

  • Proven high level relationship management
  • Partnering with stakeholders to achieve results
  • Capability development
  • Strong ability to lead and influence change
  • Highly developed negotiation skills
  • Strong understanding of challenges facing regional and rural areas
  • Experience with developing HR from ground up
  • Executive level manager
  • Board reporting
  • Team management
  • Project management
  • Employee relations
  • Negotiation with union and employee groups
  • Ethical, high moral standards
  • Conflict management
  • Passion for ensuring strong engagement in the business which results in happy productive employees and strong successful businesses.

As Australia’s only national HR professional association, AHRI represents around 20,000 human resource and people management professionals by setting standards and building the capability of the profession.

When you work with an AHRI Professional Member, you can be assured their skills and experience have been assessed against the AHRI professional recognition framework. The framework has been developed in consultation with industry practitioners and includes a broad range of specialist and business capabilities such as strategic thinking, business acumen, stakeholder management, workforce planning and change management.

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