Yvonne Bowyer | SpeakerHub

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Yvonne is a top graduating MBA, member of the Australian Human Resources Institute and graduate of the Australian Institute of Corporate Directors.

She is a long-standing passionate advocate for workplace diversity and inclusion with its positive impacts on individuals, organisations, communities and societies. In 2017 Yvonne launched her Start Up, RemiPeople to assist workplaces redesign the recruitment process without the harmful effects of unconscious bias.

She serves clients in Adelaide, nationally and globally. She regularly publishes, presents and consults to industry and business on ways to improve business effectiveness through workplace diversity & inclusion.

Having designed and developed the Diversity & Inclusion leadership for Executive Education, University of Adelaide, Yvonne is one of the key course presenters. The coursework consists of three modules, each of two days duration which participants complete over 18 months.

Current position (1)

Speaker, Trainer, Consultant

Achievements (2)

Top female MBA graduate and Top MBA graduate

Awarded Best Female MBA graduate 1999 & placed on Director’s list, most outstanding MBA graduate 1999 (only four students listed)

Flexible Work Day Ambassador #FWD2019

http://www.flexibleworkingday.com/2019-fwday-ambassadors-2/2019/5/2/yvon...

Degrees (2)

Master of Business Administration

The University of Adelaide

1996 to 1999

Company Directorship

Australian Institute of Company Directors

2009

Presentations

Presentations (5)

The Best Managers First Manage Their Own Biases

Working with a biased boss can affect employee’s self-esteem, motivation and ultimately their productivity. Leaders play an important role in creating teams where employees feel they are being treated equally, without bias. Where leaders intentionally stop favouritism from flourishing.

Ho To Make Your People Processes Less Biased

Builds the bias literacy of HR professionals and their commitment towards equity. Provides an invaluable opportunity to evaluate current hiring, performance evaluation and promotional practices for tell-tale signs of bias.

Be Better Than Your Bias

Give your employees the power to behave more equitably by raising awareness of their own biases, motivating them to change and providing strategies for correcting biases. In treating bias as a habit, our approach makes unconscious patterns conscious and intentional. Few programs have proven as effective as the Bias-Habit-Breaking Intervention developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inclusive leadership

Engage and enable leaders to develop and lead diverse teams with equity, empathy and belonging.

Creating a culture of psychological safety, trust and equal voices

Past talks (7)

Gender Equity Leads to Equality

IWD 2021 Keynote Presenter

Ajeenky DY Patil University, Prune , India

March 24, 2021

The Business Case for Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity & Inclusion Leadership

Executive Education, The University of Adelaide

March 22, 2020

Implementing a Diversity and Inclusion Plan

Diversity & Inclusion Leadership

Executive Education, The University of Adelaide

July 22, 2020

Navigating Digital Diversity

Digital Diversity

Presenter at the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), SA chapter.

November 11, 2019

Diversity leadership in international education

Diversity in International Education

Panel presenter at the IEAA (International Education Association of Australia) young professionals (SA).

July 31, 2019

The Business Case For Workplace Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity & Inclusion Leadership

Presenter at The University of Adelaide, Executive Education.

May 1, 2019

Recruiting for Diversity

Presenter at the Toyota Motor Corporation Australia,

2019 Women’s Conference, Melbourne Convention Centre

May 3, 2019

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Taking the bias out of recruitment

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Books & Articles (8)

How to Attract, Recruit and Retain Women in the Australian Automotive Industry

2019

The Bias-Habit-Breaking Intervention Works Better Than Diversity Training

How To Still Be Likeable When Calling Out Bias Expressed By Colleagues/

The Best Managers First Manage Their Own Biases

Yvonne Bowyer presents the business case for diversity and inclusion

Diversity hiring software you need to know

Go blind to see the best person for the job

25 ways to recruit for diversity

Expertise (26)

Leadership

Clients

Toyota Motor Corporation Australia

Holden Motors, Australia

The University of Adelaide

Campbelltown City Council

DriveCo Group

Cox Automotive

Reviews

Testimonials (1)

Yvonne is very passionate about Biases at work and shares her robust knowledge and experience in this area to help businesses do and become better. Her session at the KSE NETWORK's DEI Workshop was quite enriching; it was very practical and insightful and participants gave lots of positive feedbacks on how her session helped them identify and tackle their unconscious biases.
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