Lyndell Danzie-Black has been recognized with a 2025 Global Recognition Award for her work building economic infrastructure across the Caribbean, particularly for women and youth who operate outside traditional pathways to capital and leadership. Danzie-Black is Managing Director of Cerulean, a corporate training and consulting firm that advises clients in high-growth sectors across Guyana and the region. Her firm supports leadership development, service culture improvement, and workforce readiness in emerging industries. The work is direct and operational, focused on making local teams competitive and preparing them for opportunity in sectors undergoing rapid expansion.

What distinguishes Danzie-Black is the scope of her institutional work beyond the consulting room. She co-founded the first Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Caribbean, creating formal structures for women entrepreneurs to access mentorship, industry networks, and decision-making roles. She co-created the Women Leadership Program, a nine-month executive training initiative that develops strategic confidence, negotiation skills, and executive presence in next-generation leaders. She helped establish a national platform that shifts public narrative around women in power, making their expertise visible and their authority normal. These are advocacy projects that serve as structural interventions, changing who gets access and who gets heard.

Danzie-Black was shortlisted through a screening process conducted by a panel of industry experts, selected for their expertise and impartiality. Shortlisted applicants were evaluated using the Rasch model, which creates a linear measurement scale across categories, allowing for precise comparisons between applicants who excel in different areas. Danzie-Black received top ratings in vision and strategy implementation, ability to inspire and motivate others, and ethical decision-making and integrity. Her national-scale impact reflects work that covers corporate advisory, policy influence, and community-level capacity building across the Caribbean and Latin America.

Building Pathways Where None Existed

Danzie-Black has led programs that create measurable economic mobility for populations typically excluded from formal systems. Her youth development work equips young people with employability skills, discipline, and pathways to employment and entrepreneurship. The focus is on behavior change, job readiness, and dignity. She positions young people to become providers rather than statistics, working in high-need environments where infrastructure is weak and opportunity is scarce.

Her work in Haiti centered on rebuilding human capacity through training, organizing, and stabilizing communities during recovery efforts. She has worked directly with Indigenous women in interior and riverine Amazon Forest communities, helping them build livelihood models that respect traditional knowledge while creating market access. These women now own production processes, negotiate value, and generate income streams in ways that are culturally respectful and economically sustainable. Danzie-Black shows up where need is highest, regardless of conditions.

Regional Voice on Women’s Economic Participation

Through her work with the IDB-funded WE.3A initiative, Danzie-Black developed and delivered entrepreneurship training for women across the Caribbean and Latin America. The training helps women move from survival business to scalable enterprise by teaching them to understand pricing, formalize operations, and access networks traditionally closed to them. She is recognized across the region as a credible voice on women’s economic participation, MSME development, and inclusive leadership. Her work feeds into regional conversations about how the Caribbean can build its own talent base, retain value, and prepare women and youth to compete in serious economic spaces.

Danzie-Black created the Legacy Award to celebrate outstanding entrepreneurs annually. The award is designed to normalize women in power and build legacy. She operates at the corporate level, at the policy level, at the regional CARICOM level, and at the human level in villages, schools, and communities that are rarely seen. Her consistency across these levels is what makes her impact structural rather than episodic.

Final Words

Lyndell Danzie-Black delivers measurable outcomes. She builds capacity where there was none. She opens doors that were historically closed. She leaves systems stronger than she found them. Her work is about building infrastructure for women, youth, and communities to step into power and stay there.

“Lyndell Danzie-Black demonstrates the kind of leadership that changes who has access to opportunity and who gets to shape economic outcomes, Her work is structural, and it creates pathways that last beyond her direct involvement.” said Alex Sterling, spokesperson for Global Recognition Awards.