About Yolanda

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Child

of

largest 

Volcano 

Kilimanjaro

&

longest

River

Nile

in

Africa.

Eldest daughter of a refugee.

Dreamt into being by my grandmothers.

Immersed in worlds of mysticism, memory-making, and mercy since birth.

My grandmothers taught me that sacred instruction arrives through many doors, portals, activations.

Dreams.

Story.

Rituals.

Silence.

Initiation.

Our vessel.

Relationships.

The HEART itself.

Mother EARTH herself.

Wisdom arrives through language, symbol and story.

These teachings shaped how I LIVE, LEAD, LEARN, LOVE .

Long before I studied Sociology, completed an MBA, or worked within international humanitarian systems, taught as a Montessori Teacher, I was LEARNing that there are many ways of knowing and sensing.

My WORK sits at the meeting point of these worlds.

The visible and the invisible.

Strategy and spirit.

Systems and SOUL.

Structure and mystery.

Leadership and lineage.

I offer training and mentorship for those who are ready to LEARN,

using decolonial modalities, and fully claim their state of

AWE: All in, Whole, Evolving as a HUMAN.

We do this together.


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I remember Yolanda's power in my bones, in my tears, and in my chest's trembling response to her words to me one weekend on a bus in Switzerland. The words arrived gently, unassuming but memorable, like rain in the desert: "You did good." That's all. I wasn't seeking affirmation. But something about the way she said those words rang with the vibrancy of an elderly prestige, like she knew things ordinary ways of knowing couldn't appreciate. And none other than Yolanda herself offered a conceptual way to hold the moment when she spoke about a "prior generosity". Yolanda knows the music that gave birth to music. She is wise, and that is rare.

Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.
Author, Teacher, Speaker

I have the nerve

to walk my own way.

Zora Neale Hurston