— UPCOMING EVENT
Navigating the Noise: Finding Focus in a Connected Yet Disconnected World
Wednesday, May 20 - 12:00 pm -Tysons Community Alliance
Join us for a Lunch and Learn Leadership Session faciltated by Yasmin Virani, ELI'14 and Sponsored by Tysons Community Alliance.
In today’s always-on workplace, leaders are more connected than ever—yet often feel increasingly distracted, overwhelmed, and disconnected from what matters most. This Lunch and Learn invites participants to pause, reflect, and reset how they show up at work and in life.
Drawing on her experience in empathy-centered leadership, cultural awareness, and a holistic approach to the human experience at work, Yasmin Virani explores how clarity can serve as a powerful anchor amid constant noise. Participants will examine how competing personal, professional, and societal demands (the noise!) can influence focus, decision-making, and well-being—and how greater understanding of ourselves and others can strengthen connection and effectiveness.
Through relatable insights and practical strategies, this session will support leaders in creating space for clarity and focus, honoring the full humanity people bring to work, and leading with intention in an increasingly complex world.
$0 - Members
$10 - Nonmembers
Yasmin Virani, Founder & CEO of Yas Consulting Services is a Pakistani-American who was born in Dubai, raised in Georgia and now resides in Northern Virginia. Yasmin is an experienced diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) leader, strategist, coach, trainer and facilitator who is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion and helping small businesses create inclusive business models and maximize the potential of their core values and mission with their DEI goals. Yasmin holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, an MBA from Georgia State University and most recently has been certified by the Society of Diversity as a Certified Diversity Professional.
Her work has spanned a variety of sectors including government, non-profit and private sectors with a proven track record of designing, implementing and measuring strategic diversity and inclusion initiatives for medium to large size corporations. YCS is a boutique consulting firm that works with small organizations to provide services within DEI training, executive coaching, assessment and discovery, and strategy development. The YCS approach is tailored and comprehensive, intersectional and holistic and data-driven. YCS embodies the core values of empathy, courageous truth and forward motion in all of its interactions to bring forth the most meaningful inclusive practices that best align with the small organization's mission and values.
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