Guylaine Saint Juste serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of NABA, Inc. (formerly National Association of Black Accountants), a nonprofit membership association that represents more than 200,000 Black Business Leaders in accounting, finance, and related business professions.
She has a proven track record for transforming organizations by leveraging vision, culture, people, and innovation. Since taking the helm of the organization, revenues have tripled, membership doubled, strong governance put in place, partnerships with key corporations such as Deloitte, PwC, Accenture, Center for Audit Quality, Clifton Larson Allen (CLA) expanded to joint impact. Guylaine has redefined NABA, Inc’s purpose with a blend of pragmatism and mission focus that have given relevance to a total rebrand and new programs launch.
In the financial services industry where she served as Senior Vice President, Virginia Market Executive at Capital One Bank. Led the development of a new start-up region. Oversee Business Banking strategy for 95 branches, 650 employees, deposit base of $1.1B, and total loans of $650M.
Led all aspects of Business Banking including the recruiting, acquisition and development of talent, financial performance, performance management, marketing, and sales. Within 2 years, the group ranked # 1 nationally, talent retention rate improved from 20% to 90%, employee engagement score rose to 87%, employee promotion rate to 30%, and 80% of staff achieved business plan. Associates completed over 2,000 hours of community service over the past 4 years. Business Banking deposit base had grown from $88M to $350M; loan portfolio from $35M to $156M; through increasing clients’ technology usage while becoming more intentional in high touch experiences.
She counts over three decades of executive leadership with ten plus years of governance experience. Most recently at Year Up, a national youth workforce development organization that works to ensure equitable access to economic opportunity, education, and justice for all young adults, where she led strategy, innovation, and new programs, launched. During her almost six-year tenure, Saint Juste doubled the number of students Year Up served in the region, launched new curriculum and course tracks, and improved outcomes across all key performance indicators, growing revenue by over 40%.
A change maker, innovator and activist at heart, who created a platform that will educate, empower and mobilize Black Business Leaders, advance equitable representation in the industry and foster meaningful career connections to close the opportunity gap long the talent continuum, from high school to the C suite and business ownership, offer strategic thought partnership to business and academia, and accelerate Black representation at all levels of executive leadership, and with the launch of the NABA, Inc. Foundation participate in closing the generational wealth gap for Black communities.
Saint Juste is the Founder and Co-Chair of the George Mason Women in Business Initiative, previously served as President and Co-founder of the Women’s Alliance for Financial Education (WAFE) and was a board member for Goodwill of Greater Washington for nine years.
Saint Juste holds a B.A. in International Relations from George Mason University and earned her graduate degree in retail banking management from the University of Virginia. She holds several certifications: CAE, SHRM-SCP, NACD-DC.
