Unleash Your Humanity: Where Personal Awakening Becomes Collective Change

Unleash Your Humanity is both a riveting memoir and a call to live--the story of one woman who refuses to stand on the sidelines of life. A senior UN humanitarian leader, human rights lawyer, a global advocate, and changemaker, Yasmine Sherif has spent over three decades not only navigating war zones but transforming them--and herself. With courage forged through conflict, loss, and awakening, Yasmine shows that true power comes from choosing humanity over fear. Her journey illuminates a universal truth: Transformation begins the moment we dare to live authentically.

Unleash Your Humanity unfolds in two sweeping movements--one intimate and personal, the other planetary and visionary.

Part I -- The Memoir

Told in a vivid, cinematic rhythm, the memoir alternates between present-day scenes and the defining moments of Yasmine's past. Written in a style reminiscent of pulp fiction energy blended with literary reflection, it introduces the Yasmine of today before revealing the struggles, awakenings, and inner revolutions that shaped her. The narrative moves through warzones, diplomatic corridors, and private reckonings, each chapter peeling back another layer of the human spirit under pressure. Though every event is true, the prose pulses with emotion and immediacy, allowing the reader to live--not just witness--her journey from collapse to conviction.

Part II -- The Manifesto

The second part transcends memoir to become a global awakening--a call to action imagined as a planetary assembly. Eight billion people rise together, each walking toward the light of their own potential, mirroring the marches for liberty, justice, empathy, and renewal that have defined our age. Interwoven with reflections from Yasmine's own life and the wisdom of humanity's greatest thinkers, this section becomes a shared narrative--a manifesto for conscious leadership, moral courage, and the rediscovery of what unites us all.

Together, these two parts form a singular arc: the evolution of one life becoming the mirror for all lives--a story that begins with one woman's transformational journey and ends as a movement toward the awakening of humanity itself.

Yasmine Sherif is a human rights lawyer, a UN veteran, author, public speaker, and cofounder of the forthcoming Humanity Brand. She also serves as senior global ambassador to the Varkey Foundation and as an expert commentator for Diplomatic Courier. She has over thirty years of experience working in conflict zones across the globe, from Asia and the Balkans to Latin America, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and held leadership positions under pressure and in crisis for decades. She recently served for over eight years as the executive director of Education Cannot Wait for UNICEF. She has an LL.M from Stockholm University (Sweden) and has worked as an adjunct professor at Long Island University, also guest lecturing at Columbia University, the University of Hawai'i, Northwestern University, and New York University. She is the author of The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session, which was released in 2015. She has received numerous awards, including the annual award "Sweden's UN Friend of the Year," the Global Educator Award in the United States, "Who's Who in America" in 2024, and the prestigious Mother Teresa Award.

Scott Tavis is a senior leadership consultant, executive coach, and strategic advisor with more than twenty-five years of experience supporting CEOs and executive teams through complex change, transformation, and growth. He has worked across Fortune 500 companies, government positions, public-private partnerships, humanitarian development, and the nonprofit sector in Canada, the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.

Scott has advised and coached more than fifty CEOs and their leadership teams, designing and facilitating large-scale strategic change programs that integrate leadership performance, culture, brand, and execution. Since 2018, he has served as a senior consultant to the United Nations system, working with organizations including UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNEP, and the UN Secretariat on executive and team coaching, strategic design, facilitation, and leadership branding.

Through his consulting work with Instinct Strategy and previous ventures, Scott has partnered with organizations such as Medtronic, Mars, Campbell's, Coca-Cola, Teva, Point Biopharma, and the Canadian Cancer Society. His work is known for blending strategic rigor with deep human insight--helping leaders align purpose, performance, and impact.

Scott holds a BA from UC Berkeley, attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and is certified by the International Coaching Federation. He is also certified in multiple advanced leadership and team-coaching methodologies, including Team Coaching International, Leadership Circle 360, Team Diagnostic Survey, ORSC, and Scrum.