Unleash Your Humanity.
The Book.
The Movement.
The Message the World Needs Now.
âIn a world that often feels divided, Unleash Your Humanity transports us back to what unites us - resilience, creativity, empathy, and the unstoppable human spirit. Yasmineâs story is a call to rise together, to serve one and another, and to remember that our own humanity is our greatest power.â
-Tony Robbins, New York Times #1 Bestseller, International Life and Business Coach.
Global Thought Leader | Over 30 Years of Leadership in the United Nations| Author | Co-Founder of The Humanity Brand
Yasmine is an award-winning senior humanitarian leader and inspiring speaker. With over thirty years leading successful teams at the United Nations in warzones, Yasmine finds extraordinary solutions to abnormal problems.
Today, she brings those lessons to the world, as transformation.
Because leadership is no longer about authority. It is about alignment, authenticity, and humanity.
The Book That Turns Humanity Into Action
Unleash Your Humanity is a bold memoir-manifesto A true story, Yasmine moves through the frontlines of brutal conflicts to the inner terrain of courage, empathy and transformation. Seamlessly blending lived experience, psychology, philosophy, science, and spirituality, she inspires a clear call to awakening and action. A global speaker, Yasmineâs energy and decades of experience inspire, bring clarity and goosebumps as an authentic and passionate public speaker.
âIn these times, when the world calls with urgency for our humanity to awaken, Yasmineâs lifelong devotion becomes a beacon of light and hope. Her story compels us to rise, to act, and to unleash our own humanity â within ourselves and across the world.â
JosĂŠ Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
A Global Voice For Humanity, Forged Inside Power
Yasmine Sherif is an award-winning Global Leadership Speaker, author of Unleash Your Humanity, and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Humanity Brand, together with Scott Tavis.
For more than 30 years, she has served as a senior U.N. leader and human rights lawyer, working across conflict-affected settings in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as in global leadership roles in New York and Geneva.
Most recently, she spent more than eight years as Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait, the global fund for education in emergencies hosted by UNICEF, building and leading it into a major global platform and mobilizing $1.6 billion to deliver quality education to 14 million crisis-affected children in wars and refuge.
Across her U.N. career, Yasmine and her teams have mobilized more than $3 billion for UN humanitarian action. Read more about her achievements on About Yasmine.
Today, she brings over thirty years of her lessons and learning to the world â not as policy, but as transformation.
Because successful leadership is no longer about authority. It is about alignment, authenticity, and humanity.
UNLEASH YOUR HUMANITY
Unleash Your Humanity - Where Personal Awakening Becomes Collective Change is a riveting memoir, and a bold call to live.
Written from the frontlines of war, displacement, and high-stakes decision-making, the book follows Yasmine Sherif, senior UN humanitarian leader and human rights lawyer, through the moments that shaped her outer mission and her inner transformation. From Afghanistan and Iraq to Cambodia, the Balkans, Sudan, the Middle East, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, she takes you into a world that forges the strongest power we possess: our own humanity.
The book unfolds in two sweeping movements. Part I, the Memoir, traces a life lived as an alchemist turning challenges into opportunities. Part II, the Manifesto, turns experience into a pathway. It reframes leadership, as practical forcesâsteps we can take to choose humanity in all areas of life.
This is the story of one womanâs journey. Yet it is ultimately not about her. It is about us: what becomes possible when we stop standing on the sidelines of our own lives, and begin living with truth, tenderness, and brave action.
Transformation begins the moment we dare to live authentically.
âIn a world that often feels divided, Unleash Your Humanity transports us back to what unites us - resilience, creativity, empathy, and the unstoppable human spirit. Yasmineâs story is a call to rise together, to serve one and another, and to remember that our own humanity is our greatest power.â
-Tony Robbins, New York Times #1 Bestseller, International Life and Business Coach.
"Having collaborated with Yasmine Sherif for many years and seen her incredible commitment to the mission of Global Citizen, I am excited to see her memoir and manifesto on humanity now being shared with the world. An extremely powerful story of inspiration for anyone who wants to make a positive impact - both for themselves and for others."
Michael Sheldrick, Co-Founder of Global Citizen and Author of From Idea to Impact.
"Yasmine and I jointly advocated for girls' education in Afghanistan and other conflict-affected areas. Her commitment to humanity is a lifelong journey through her decades in the UN system, as an advocate and public speaker. Her second book, Unleash Your Humanity: When Personal Awakening Becomes Collective Change, is a testimony to her inspiration, drive, determination â strengths we all can access and make useful to ourselves and to the world."
Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent, Sunday Times and Bestselling Author of several books.
Interviews & News Coverage.
Yasmine Sherif frequently features in the news and media. She has appeared in Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, BBC, CNN, France-24, El Pais, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, the Telegraph, the Guardian, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Xinuha, UN television, Global Citizen, the Project Syndicate, and the Diplomatic Courier, among others.
Book Yasmine for a Speaking Engagement
Yasmine Sherif is a global voice for humanity. Her insightful, energetic, and inspiring talks combine high-stakes leadership with personal development: how to stay steady under pressure, lead with humanity, courage and integrity, and turn adversity into purpose. With a rare ability to connect frontline reality to inner resilience, she offers audiences and readers both inspiration and practical tools, grounded in what it takes to make decisions, build trust, and deliver successful results when the options are imperfect.
Yasmine is available for keynotes, speeches, moderated conversations, panels, and select private briefings.