Yibrah Tesfazghi

Yibrah Tesfazghi is an Eritrean executive with over 38 years of experience leading cross-functional teams across industries in the Middle East and Africa. 

For almost 4 decades, Yibrah Tesfazghi served in senior leadership roles at General Electric Co., earning a reputation as a builder of high-performing teams and a champion of diversity, equity, integrity and inclusion — long before those terms became corporate fashions.

Yibrah’s African Dream Team initiative — which formed the heart of this book — was a bold experiment in intentional diversity that delivered extraordinary results and became the subject of significant attention within the industry.

A sought-after speaker, mentor, and executive coach, Yibrah is passionate about helping the next generation of African professionals navigate — and transform — the world’s most powerful corporate institutions.