About
Yeshim Harris
Yeshim is a London-based specialist in conflict resolution, organisational resilience, and leadership under pressure. With a background rooted in engagement in complex international disputes, she applies her expertise to corporate and organisational challenges, helping teams, partners, and stakeholders build trust, navigate tensions, and transform conflicts into growth opportunities.
What sets Yeshim apart is her ability to draw on lessons from her work in challenging conflict zones, including direct engagement with former combatants and paramilitaries. This unconventional experience has equipped her with a unique perspective on dialogue, transformation, and sustainable peacebuilding, which she applies across sectors.
Partnered with the United Nations, Yeshim has led high-level initiatives involving businesses, political figures, and civic leaders, even in deeply entrenched, resistant contexts. Her diverse experience spans the UK, USA, EU, Cyprus, Lebanon, South Africa, Colombia, and Central Asia, working with clients such as the military, British Parliament, UNDP, UNAIDS, Manchester Airport Group, the Kenyan Electoral Commission, Boeing, and Accenture.
An MSc graduate, Yeshim holds a diploma in conflict resolution, and she is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent. She is an approved trainer with The Institute of Leadership and regularly provides consultancy to the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
Peace Training: https://www.peacetraining.eu/trainer/1133
University of Kent: https://research.kent.ac.uk/conflict-analysis/person/yeshim-harris/
Fun Fact:
Yeshim was first startled but then delighted to realise that the same techniques she used with high-level conflict parties also helped her negotiate with her determined toddler (now 18) on bedtime rules and sweets before dinner.
