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Speaker – Yasmin Khan will be the guest
speaker for the 2019 Tees Businesswomen
Awards event at Wynyard Hall on October 24.
“I feel privileged to have a role where change
can be affected. That’s my absolute goal.”
Yasmin received the Inspiring Others
Award from Nicola Duffey of category
sponsors SABIC at the inaugural Tees
Businesswomen Awards.
She enjoys cooking, going to the gym and,
she laughs, “organising events”. She also
likes travel and has plans to visit the Far
East.
She has, she says, a fantastic network of
family and friends who support her and that
philosophy is one she carries through to her
professional life.
“I feel like and honorary Teessider now,”
she laughs.
“I have a fantastic network of support,
family and friends, and that’s come from the
Tees Valley. It has been a brilliant learning
curve for me, I’m the type of person that
needs to be learning - that’s what help me
develop as a person.”
She loves the part of her job that takes
her to Wales as national advisor to the
government on equality and diversity
issues.
“I feel privileged to have a role where
change can be affected. That’s my absolute
goal.”
And going forward?
Halo aims to grow, she says, and to
expand the vital services it offers as well
as looking at ways it can be more business
focussed.
Personally she wants to continue the
work she does in government, helping
ministers provide for the potential she sees
in business, services and people every day.
There is a can-do attitude in the North-
East and she aims to spread that message
too.
“Why not us?” says Yasmin. “We have
fantastic talent.
“I want to make sure those groups that
need it have a voice. That every single
person has an opportunity to be safe, to
reach their potential and to have hope.”
*BBC Radio presenter Charlie Charlton will host
the 2019 Tees Businesswomen Awards, which has
again been sponsored by Northern Skills Group, the
training and apprenticeship arm of Middlesbrough
College. It takes place on Thursday, October 24,
2019 in the Grand Marquee at Wynyard Hall. Visit
teesbusiness.co.uk for details on how to enter.