Our Global Ambassadors
PALI Ambassador for Trinidad & Tobago
Vashti Guyadeen
Ms. Vashti Guyadeen's career spans over two decades, encompassing research and development, policy design, SME development, global and institutional competitiveness, and international relations. Prior to her current position as CEO of the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries, she held esteemed roles in academia, the public and private sectors, working with renowned organizations such as the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Economic Development Board, Trinidad and Tobago International Financial Centre, and Ministries of Energy and Public Administration. She is a proud alumni of PALI and her dedication to conscious leadership aligns seamlessly with PALI’s vision of creating a more unified and empowered African diaspora.
PALI Ambassador for Jamaica
Cordell Williams-Graham
Cordell Williams Graham, Coach Cordell or The people transformer, as she is more popularly known, is the CEO of Transformational Life Solutions. Transformational Life Solutions is a life and business coaching, training, and consulting company that helps individuals to transform their lives, careers, and business and bring positive change to the world around them.
Cordell holds a Masters in Management Information Systems and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Management from the University of the West Indies. She is an internationally certified project manager, life and business coach with the John Maxwell Team and consultant with the Heart Trust Jamaica. Jamaica Business Development Corporation. 3MMB Bank and Richard Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean. Mrs. Graham possesses close to two decades of experience in customer service, business strategy, project management, auditing, strategic planning, change management, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She prides herself as a woman of results and throughout her career, she has trained. coached, and consulted for over 300 entrepreneurs, companies, and individuals helping them to realize business goals, greater business efficiencies, increased levels of customer satisfaction as well as over $ USD 56.6 Million in inflows and cost savings and over USD $600,000 in investment funding.
She is not only a coach but is known for leadership and people development. She has authored three books for personal and spiritual development under the title Seeds for the Heart. Cordell has served on several community development boards including the Parish Development Committee and Road Safety Council and as Chairman of the Young Women's Christian Academy. She currently sits on the Management Committee of Jamaica's Governor General's Programme for Excellence.
In 2017 she started the work of country transformation where she played an integral role in Jamaica's economic transformation by participating in the work of Jamaica's Economic Growth council in the Office of the Prime Minister. This work led to the successful execution of Jamaica's standby agreement with the IMF and the rapid transformation in Jamaica's real GDP growth from an average 0.2% over the last two decades to a high of 2.2% in 2018.
Her work continues in people, business, regional and global transformation as she now serves in the capacity of Ambassador of the Pan African Leadership Institute and President of the prestigious Young Entrepreneurs Association which is renowned for transforming Caribbean based entrepreneurs personally, professionally and commercially!
PALI Ambassador for South America
Maria Lígia Conti
Ligia is a retired English and Portuguese languages and literature teacher, with a master’s degree in Education. Her dissertation for the master’s degree was a study on the first History books printed in Brazil in the 19thth century (before that, all books were printed in the Portugal). Her research aimed to check how the black African people who had been brought to the country as slaves were pictured in those History books.
She has been a member of the Center of Afro-Brazilian Culture (NUCAB) at the University of Sorocaba (SP/Brazil) for the past 26 years. In 2012 she worked as a volunteer English teacher in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and had a chance to visit South Africa. She made good friends in Ethiopia and became a voice for Africa in Brazil – always having a good word to say about the continent, its people, its culinary and cultures.
Ligia is presently an ambassador for the Girl Child and her Long Walk to Freedom (https://girlchildlongwalk.org) a project that aims to raise awareness and show how faith can contribute to fight against the oppression imposed on girls and women all over the world, along human history.
Ligia is also an artist and teacher working with Healing Dolls – the creation of dolls in experiences of self-awareness and self-healing.
Mother of a boy and a girl, and grandmother of two boys, Ligia believes life is a present that must be fully enjoyed in the present.
PALI Ambassador for Nigeria
Amos Bicham
Amos Bicham is a Learning and Development enthusiast, Advanced Management Trainer, and a Certified Knowledge Manager of the Knowledge Management Institute, USA.
He is a member of the Effective Presentation Faculty of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) and holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies, Leadership & Strategic Studies. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Leadership & Strategic Studies at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Amos is passionate about continuous learning and capacity building, as well as Disruptive Leadership for social change and transformation.
He lives in Abuja, Nigeria and is a father of two amazing boys and a lovely daughter.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook.
Haile Selassie