Yolanda Cabrera-Sybesma

Highlighting stories of Latinx Leaders making social impact & covering diversity & inclusion of women on boards

Yolanda Cabrera-Sybesma is the founder and Managing Partner of CiNTL, a project management consultancy firm servicing the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, private and public health sectors.

Yolanda serves on several boards, Avara Pharmaceuticals Services as a Sr. Advisor, The American Industrial Acquisition Corporation as a Senior Advisor, on the Board of Directors for The Project Management Institute as VP and has served as the chairman of The Hera International Foundation.

She has given speeches in conferences and in 2021 founded LeadingLatinx, a platform that highlights stories of Latinx Leaders making social impact and covering topics related to Diversity and Inclusion of women on boards.

In 2022 Yolanda completed The Yale School of Management Women in Leadership Leading Teams program with distinction. Her final project focus was on implementing a DEI program to elevate women to network and make social impact. Since completing the program, Yolanda has used the focus of her program to evolve into a foundation who’s goal is to empower women and young girls worldwide and be the voice for women to have a fair chance to succeed in their career development.

Yolanda has won several scientific awards, including receiving a NIH Forgarty International Re-search Grant and has been recognized in WHO’s Who In Medicine and Research. In addition, she has copublished in multiple Scientific Journals and recently published a book on Access to Medi-cines. Yolanda is also a public speaker in the DEI space of LatinX women in boards.

In October 2021, Yolanda was selected as member of Topvrouw (TopWoman) for the Netherlands.

Yolanda holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Vrije University (VU), The Netherlands and did her medical school education at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

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