Lyndell Danzie-Black

BIOGRAPHY – Lyndell Danzie-Black, BA (Hons.), MSc.,
Lyndell Danzie-Black is the Managing Director of Cerulean Inc. – a Business Development,
Corporate Training and Business Consulting firm based in Guyana since 2012. A certified ILO
International Trainer for Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB), Lyndell recently completed the
WomenLead Institute/ExxonMobil – Global Women in Management Program. Lyndell is an alumni
of the highly competitive 12-month How Women Leader and Global Women Leadership Network
Program, California, USA. The Co-Founder of the first in the Caribbean – Women Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, Guyana and the Co-creator of the 25 Influential Women Leaders Award
and the Women Leadership Program. Lyndell is a multi-award winner and recently received the
Women4Africa 2022 International Recognition “Change Maker” Award in the United Kingdom;
and the 2022 President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana Award – Outstanding
Performance in Training, Service and Mentorship; the Small Business Bureau – Networking
Master Award 2022; the Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Entrepreneur Excellence
Award 2021 and Small Business Bureau Award for Service 2022.
Cerulean Inc. collaborates with ExxonMobil on their Corporate Citizenship mission and
implements the Community and Youth Empowerment CSR Projects in Guyana. Ms. Danzie-Black
worked as the Program Director for Youth Build Youth Project – ‘YouthBIz592’ in Guyana, funded
by the IDB. Ms. Danzie-Black provides corporate training for several businesses in Guyana and
the region, as well as cross-culture training, executive coaching and mentorship for clients of
international companies and organizations. Cerulean Inc., is an approved training partner of the
Small Business Bureau and a strategic partner of the International Human Resource
Development Corporation (IHRDC).
Lyndell is an International Mentor for the Cherie Blair Foundation, UK and the Women in
Leadership, Canada and was a mentor with the Queen’s Young Leaders Program for youth
leaders from Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica and continues to mentor
women entrepreneurs. Project Coordinator for the 2013 Caribbean Marketplace for the Arts at
CARIFESTA XI in Suriname and the CARICOM Project Coordinator/Consultant to CARIFESTA
XII is Haiti. In February 2016, Lyndell was the Project Coordinator for the CARICOM Youth, Crime
and Violence Regional Forum. In 2017, Lyndell managed the CARICOM/Government of Italy
Fashion Designers Project in Barbados during CARIFESTA XIII.
Her inspirational leadership, vision and commitment to exc