Yeniva Sisay is a Value Creator and change maker with two decades of experience as a trained and qualified teacher, leader, mentor, coach; Yeniva has developed a portfolio of diverse skills and experience across private and public sector in the United States and Africa. 

In 2007 Yeniva relocated to her ancestral home Sierra Leone, West Africa and founded EXCEL Sierra Leone. Since then she has pursued her passion to develop, build and transform the continent through her work, creating value from classrooms to board rooms by way of youth empowerment, training, project management, business development, branding, communications and events.

 Bringing vision into action in many areas of development in Sierra Leone,

Yeniva has been a midwife in the birth of a range of projects such as, PLAY ON WORD’s Poetry Showcase, one of Sierra Leone’s biggest festivals The Ma dengn Beach Festival, Sierra Leone’s first luxury resort The Place,  professional women’s network PowerWomen232, and Salone Travel Collective. Yeniva is a cast member of the documentaries “The Ebola Stigma Vaccine” as well as the award winning “Am I too African to be American or to African to be American”. She was a speaker at TEDXKingTom and she recently was named one of the 100 Most Inspirational Sierra Leoneans.