As a Technologist and the Founder of Young Ambitious One (YAO), a learning and career development company, Yanique also serves as an advocate and mentor for women in business, technology, and entrepreneurship. She is deliberate about creating pathways and opportunities for success that develop and promote women leaders, adopting the motto ‘empowered women, empower women’. The annual women empowerment workshops Yanique and her team co-created, are called ‘Ambitious Women In The Workplace’ and ‘Women At Work’, both have impacted over 1500 attendees in the past four years. The programs aim to accelerate professional and career development, and enhance the technical skills of aspiring diverse women leaders. Several attendees have landed jobs, secured promotions, and started businesses. Yanique specializes in information security and data privacy, over the past five years she has served as a guest instructor and career advisor at several universities, MPACKU.org, and the National Association of Black Accountants’ Eastern Region Student Conference, to co-lead these impactful YAO workshops.
