Her Story
About Yasmine
Yasmine Meneses is a Registered Dietitian and healthcare expert with more than a decade of experience bridging clinical nutrition, employee benefits, and consultant relations. As Manager of Consultant Relations and US Dietitian Lead at Nutrium, she partners with benefits consultants, brokers, and employers to advance nutrition-led care in employee health strategy. Her work translates clinical insight into business value, particularly on metabolic health, GLP-1 medications, and peptide therapies, positioning dietitian-led programs as sustainable, outcome-driven alternatives in the benefits space.
She began in clinical nutrition, training with the goal of caring for pediatric patients. Her career opened in a different direction when she moved into employer wellness and health consulting. As a Registered Dietitian and Health Coach with Disney Healthy Pursuits, she designed nutrition programming for onsite cafeterias and helped build a cafeteria wellness initiative still running at Walt Disney World today. She went on to roles at Marriott International, Cigna, Aon, and Brown & Brown Insurance, developing expertise in health and welfare benefits, client advisory, and large-scale account management before returning to nutrition-focused work at Nutrium.
Yasmine holds a bachelor's degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from the University of Florida and completed her dietetic internship through Emory Healthcare. She maintains multiple state licenses and certifications, including her GBDS credential and wellness program coordinator certification.
Mentorship shapes how she works. She credits leaders like Monica Hollingsworth of Aon Consulting with helping her see career paths beyond her original plan, and she now extends that same encouragement to other women entering consulting and healthcare nutrition. An active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Obesity Society she also gives time to the American Cancer Society and March of Dimes. For Yasmine, the work has come full circle, reconnecting her original passion for nutrition with the business and relationship skills she built along the way.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Yasmine
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute much of my success to the mentors who guided me early in my career, and to my willingness to follow new directions within nutrition and healthcare. At Disney, that meant helping implement the Swell Choices for On-Site Cafeterias initiative alongside our chief medical officer (Dr. Pam Hymel) and a fellow dietitian, Carly Siceloff. The program used an approval system and discounted pricing to steer cast members toward healthier choices, and I'm proud that it's still in place at Walt Disney World more than a decade later.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best advice I've received actually came recently from Andre Santos, the CEO at Nutrium: never stop being ambitious. Ambition has always been one of my defining attributes, and his point was that it belongs in how I lead. Keep pushing teams to improve, respectfully, so that both the company and what we deliver to our members get better.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I'd tell young women entering this field to embrace challenges, stay open to unexpected career paths, and keep exploring everything available across nutrition and healthcare. When I started, I pictured myself in pediatric nutrition in a hospital setting. It took women further along than me to show me how many other places my background could go. The work I do now reaches further and drives me far more than what I originally planned for, and I try to be that person for the women coming up behind me.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Nutrition is finally being treated as clinical care rather than a wellness perk, and GLP-1s are a big reason why. Metabolic health is now in nearly every benefits conversation I have. The challenge is access. Coverage for dietitian-led care still varies enormously depending on the employer and the plan, so the people who would benefit most often can't reach it. Closing that gap is the opportunity.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
At work, I value open communication and transparency. Teams do their best work when people know where they stand and feel able to say what they actually think, and that's the environment I try to build for the people around me. Personally, my family is the center of everything. Time with them is what I protect most, and it has made me a firm believer in work-life balance. I'd encourage anyone building a career to take that seriously rather than treat it as something you earn later.
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