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Yissely Ortiz

Founder & Principal, ACCEND LAB

Yissely Ortiz is the Founder and Principal of ACCEND LAB, a leadership and organizational advisory practice focused on trust, alignment, and high-stakes change.

She brings more than 14 years of experience helping institutions navigate complexity, strengthen leadership, and build the conditions people need to do their best work. Her work spans corporate, nonprofit, government, and global humanitarian contexts, including regulated enterprise environments, civic systems, and mission-driven organizations.

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Across her career, Yissely has worked at the intersection of leadership, culture, strategy, and systems change. She has designed and led leadership development programs, facilitated executive and cross-functional conversations, advised on organizational culture and inclusion, and supported leaders through moments of transition, tension, and transformation.

Before founding ACCEND LAB, Yissely held roles across global humanitarian advocacy, New York City government, civic leadership development, and corporate enterprise strategy. Her work has included strategic engagement with the United Nations, regional strategy design and implementation, community and stakeholder engagement, and change work inside a regulated utility environment.

At the center of her work is a belief that trust is not only relational. It is structural. Organizations move forward when leaders are clear, credible, aligned, and equipped to build the conditions people need to do their best work.

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