Meet the Founder

International mobility has transformed the modern workforce.

People increasingly relocate across countries and continents to pursue professional opportunities, often taking their partners and children with them. Employers make significant investments in recruiting, relocating and retaining this talent.

But international mobility can also place considerable pressure on family life.

When relationships experience difficulties, expatriate families may face additional complexities involving children, schooling, housing, finances, relocation, cultural differences and connections with several jurisdictions.

Yomi recognised a gap between the support traditionally available through the workplace and the specialist intervention that may be required when the underlying problem is unresolved family conflict.

OMES was created to help bridge that gap.

Through employer-sponsored family mediation, organisations can provide employees with access to independent, confidential and professionally structured support without the employer becoming involved in the substance of the family dispute.

For Yomi, this represents a natural extension of modern employee wellbeing: supporting the individual not only as an employee, but as a whole person.

Yomi qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2003 and founded Owens Solicitors, a specialist law firm based in Luton, Bedfordshire in 2007.

Her work has included divorce and financial matters, arrangements for children and complex family disputes, including cases involving families and assets across different jurisdictions.

She is also an FMC Registered Family Mediator and a Member of Resolution UK, reflecting her commitment to helping families resolve difficulties constructively wherever circumstances permit.

Her approach to mediation is informed by extensive experience of what can happen when family conflict becomes entrenched.

That experience underpins a simple principle: where appropriate, early and constructive intervention can help families make decisions before conflict becomes prolonged and increasingly difficult to manage.

OMES brings that experience into the corporate environment.

Yomi works with employers, HR and People teams, wellbeing professionals and organisations employing internationally mobile workforces to introduce family mediation as a specialist component of employee wellbeing and human-capital support.

The aim is not to bring an employee's private family life into the workplace.

It is precisely the opposite.

OMES creates an independent professional pathway outside the organisation through which employees can obtain appropriate support while their privacy and confidentiality are respected.

This enables employers to support their people meaningfully while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.

Yomi's vision for OMES is to encourage a broader conversation about the place of family wellbeing within organisational performance.

Organisations invest in people because people create value.

When those people are navigating serious family difficulties, providing access to specialist support can form part of a responsible and forward-looking approach to employee wellbeing, resilience and retention.

Through OMES, Yomi is bringing together family mediation, expatriate support and human-capital wellbeing to respond to the realities of today's international workforce.