Cassandra Gajadhar is a seasoned administrative and youth development professional with more than 20 years of experience in administration, project management, leadership development, youth engagement, and organizational capacity building. As Administrative Manager at DPB Global, she provides strategic operational leadership, strengthens organizational systems, and supports the effective execution of projects and initiatives across diverse sectors.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Youth Development Work from The University of the West Indies and has earned certifications in Project Management, Mentorship and Coaching, and Youth Work Education. Her expertise combines administrative excellence with a deep understanding of youth development, community engagement, and organizational effectiveness.

ABOUT HER

Cassandra is the Founder of Youth Development Services (YDS), a Caribbean-based NGO dedicated to supporting vulnerable and at-risk youth through mentorship, leadership development, advocacy, and community intervention programs. Through YDS, she also equips youth workers, practitioners, and leaders with evidence-based approaches to youth engagement, utilizing survey research, data analysis, and lived-experience assessments to design meaningful and impactful programs.

An accomplished leadership coach and author, Cassandra has written three youth-focused books, including Dear Youth, a practical resource designed to help young people navigate life with purpose, resilience, and confidence. Her passion for developing people, strengthening organizations, and creating sustainable pathways for youth empowerment continues to shape her work locally, regionally, and internationally.

Linda is DPB Global’s Legal Associate and Compliance Review Officer, responsible for supporting contract review, legal document analysis, compliance checks, risk assessment, and legal drafting. Her role is to help the company identify contractual risks, clarify obligations, review payment terms, examine procurement conditions, and assess legal or commercial issues before agreements are signed. Linda reviews contracts, memoranda of understanding, non-disclosure agreements, consultancy agreements, grant agreements, procurement documents, partnership arrangements, and client correspondence to ensure that DPB Global understands its rights, responsibilities, and possible exposure. Linda prepares contract review notes, red-flag summaries, compliance checklists, payment-term comparisons, risk memos, NDA drafts, contract clarification letters, and legal document summaries. She identifies issues related to deliverables, liability, intellectual property, confidentiality, termination clauses, dispute resolution, governing law, insurance requirements, performance obligations, and payment conditions. Her work helps protect DPB Global’s legal and commercial interests while supporting sound business decision-making. Linda’s role is especially important in international consulting, where contracts often involve complex procurement rules, multi-country assignments, donor requirements, payment milestones, and compliance obligations.

Stan serves as DPB Global’s Sales Associate and Business Development Officer, responsible for identifying new consulting opportunities, researching prospects, building outreach lists, managing follow-up sequences, and supporting the company’s project pipeline. His role is to help DPB Global expand its business across the Caribbean, Canada, Latin America, Africa, and international development markets. Stan focuses on opportunities related to labour-market research, TVET, education, migration, statistics, social policy, economic development, data systems, institutional capacity-building, and workforce development.

Stan supports the sales and business development process by creating prospect lists, developing outreach email sequences, tracking expressions of interest, following up on proposals, and preparing pipeline status reports. He categorises leads by sector, country, funding source, opportunity value, submission deadline, probability of success, and next action. Stan works closely with Eva on procurement monitoring and with Penny and Sonny on outreach content that strengthens proposal follow-up and client engagement. His work helps ensure that DPB Global maintains a strong and active pipeline of consulting opportunities while building long-term relationships with funders, governments, institutions, and development partners.

Rachel is the Receptionist and Client Intake Coordinator for Dunn Pierre Barnett & Company Canada Ltd., serving as the first point of contact for many clients, partners, consultants, procurement officers, funders, and business leads. Her role is to manage incoming inquiries, route messages, support appointment booking, organise first-contact communication, and ensure that no important opportunity or client request is overlooked. Rachel helps maintain a professional first impression for DPB Global by ensuring that inquiries are handled quickly, courteously, and directed to the appropriate person or department.

Rachel also supports client relationship management and lead intake by recording contact details, inquiry types, urgency levels, referral sources, and recommended follow-up actions. She helps organise communication from potential clients, existing clients, consultants, government agencies, development institutions, and business partners. Her work strengthens DPB Global’s ability to respond to opportunities, manage client communication, and capture new leads effectively. By keeping front-office communication organised and responsive, Rachel plays a key role in ensuring that the company remains accessible, professional, and client-focused.

Sonny serves as DPB Global’s Social Media Manager and Digital Engagement Officer, responsible for managing the company’s online presence across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X. His role is to strengthen DPB Global’s visibility, promote the company’s research outputs, communicate its expertise, and support business development through consistent and professional digital engagement. Sonny helps ensure that DPB Global’s online platforms reflect the company’s identity as a serious research, labour-market, TVET, statistics, migration, and economic development consulting firm.

Sonny prepares and schedules social media posts, develops campaign themes, repurposes research findings into short-form content, monitors engagement, tracks audience reactions, and supports digital branding. He creates content around reports, proposals, project wins, surveys, conferences, data insights, Caribbean development issues, BIPOC research, labour-market trends, TVET, migration, and public policy commentary. His work helps turn DPB Global’s technical expertise into visible public engagement, allowing the company to reach clients, partners, funders, policymakers, researchers, and wider professional audiences in a more consistent and strategic way.

Penny is DPB Global’s Blog Writer and Content Creator, responsible for transforming the company’s research, reports, policy insights, labour-market analysis, TVET work, migration studies, and economic development ideas into clear, professional, and engaging written content. Her role is to help DPB Global communicate its expertise to clients, governments, development agencies, investors, educational institutions, and the wider public. Penny ensures that complex technical material is converted into accessible language while maintaining the authority, evidence base, and professional tone expected from a leading research and consulting firm.

Penny supports DPB Global’s thought-leadership strategy by drafting and editing blog posts, articles, case studies, newsletters, website content, policy briefs, research summaries, public commentary, and LinkedIn articles. She also helps develop monthly content calendars, identify themes from the company’s research pipeline, create blog series, and prepare shorter versions of long technical reports for social media, newsletters, and client engagement. Through her work, Penny strengthens DPB Global’s brand voice and helps position the company as a leading authority in labour-market intelligence, workforce development, TVET, education reform, migration analysis, survey research, and Caribbean development.