Yael Leibovitz Tannenbaum
- Yael Leibovitz Tannenbaum is a seasoned Career Consultant and Storyteller with 20 years of experience in HR and recruitment across financial and tech sectors.
- Specializes in Diversity & Inclusion, promoting awareness in business, government, and academia through workshops, lectures, and programs.
- Dedicated to empowering diverse populations, especially Haredi women, by addressing unconscious biases in recruitment.
- Brings a unique cultural insight, facilitated by her skill in learning new languages, fostering deep connections as a lecturer and consultant.
- Passionate about the impact of unconscious biases and labels on decision-making and economic outcomes.
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Yael Leibovitz Tannenbaum's 2025 biography
Yael Leibovitz Tannenbaum is a Career Consultant, Storyteller, and Diversity & Inclusion Expert with over 20 years of experience in Human Resources and recruitment within financial and technology organizations. With a deep understanding of organizational dynamics, Yael brings a wealth of expertise in guiding individuals and companies toward building inclusive and effective work environments.
Yael is passionate about understanding people, cultures, and audiences. Her ability to learn new languages easily enhances her connection with diverse groups, making her an impactful lecturer and consultant. For more than a decade, she has dedicated her efforts to researching unconscious biases, exploring how societal labels influence decision-making and affect economic outcomes.
As a recognized expert in Diversity & Inclusion, Yael works to promote these values in the business, government, and academic sectors through engaging lectures, workshops, academic courses, and specially designed programs. She is actively involved in initiatives to empower women, particularly those from the Haredi community and other underrepresented groups, focusing on breaking down barriers in recruitment processes by addressing unconscious biases.
Yael’s approach is rooted in her belief in the power of awareness, empathy, and understanding to create positive change. Her work is making a meaningful impact, helping individuals and organizations challenge biases, embrace diversity, and build more equitable environments for everyone.
Yael Leibovitz Tannenbaum's 2025 talks & topics
The “Double-Glass Ceiling”, “Mind The Gap"
In collaboration with Chani Zisman, we address the cultural gaps between secular and ultra-Orthodox sectors in Israeli society. In this lecture, we demonstrate bilingualism (Israeli Hebrew and Ultra-Orthodox Hebrew) and describe how we serve as a ‘human translation engine’ between the two types of Hebrew.
The lecture dynamically brings to the surface language and cultural gaps, offering a direct encounter with the social and economic costs we pay as individuals and as a society due to the stereotypes and fixed ideas that influence us.
It initiates a universal discussion about gender and cultural gaps and has been delivered to audiences in Israel and abroad, including social innovation delegations from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organizations in the business, public, and social sectors, and private groups.
The lecture was delivered at the European Parliament in Brussels on International Women’s Day, at the Women and Economy conference in India, and within the Jewish community in Prague.
The secular-ultra-Orthodox encounter serves as a case study, offering insight and learning about any meeting between different cultures, attitudes, and worldviews.
Unconscious Labeling and Biases (for Recruitment Teams, HR, and Hiring Managers)
Unconscious biases affect all of us when we encounter anyone who is not… us. This lecture helps bring awareness to what we think we know but still influences us, trapping us in a mindset disconnected from reality and not based on experience. Through thought-provoking exercises, I offer tools and renewed attention to recruitment and interview processes.
Storytelling
In this workshop, we will understand why it is so difficult for us to talk about ourselves, the importance of our story in today’s job market, and how we can do it in a way that sparks curiosity.
Through case studies, we will learn how to tell our story in a new, surprising, and unconventional way.
Why is it so relevant to express unique motivations, skills, and interesting connections from other areas of our lives?
What are the internal stories we tell ourselves that prevent us from seeing our story from a new perspective?
We will practice a renewed and interesting self-presentation and receive feedback.
Decision-Making
This lecture opens a door to understanding decision-making from a new perspective.
By defining a decision as a conscious response to an existing situation and choosing a course of action in response to that situation (Doron, 1986), we will learn to recognize the parameters that unknowingly influence our decisions, such as unconscious biases and narratives, and supportive and limiting beliefs.
We will present two central decision-making models (rational and intuitive) and explore the different minds where decisions may be made. We will acknowledge “decision fatigue” and experience silence as a tool for making better, more conscious decisions.