Captain Planet Foundation Board
Founder & Managing Director
The Momentum Firm
Lakeisha is an award-winning public sector strategist, public policy advisor, university instructor, and management consulting executive with global experience working with governments, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, foundations, higher education institutions, and corporate social enterprises.
She is a first-generation Sierra Leonean-American and was born and raised in Georgia, where she received a B.A in International Studies with an emphasis in Sustainable Development from Georgia Southern University and a Master of Public Administration Degree with honors from Kennesaw State University’s School of Government and International Affairs.
In 2025, Lakeisha founded, and is now serving as CEO and Managing Director of The Momentum Firm. The Momentum Firm is a high-impact management consultancy, based in Atlanta, GA and Washington D.C, exclusively serving federal, state, and local governments, education institutions, nonprofits, and a range of other public serving organizations. In this role, she leads the firm’s strategy, thought leadership, sales, and delivery of client engagements across the following domain areas: strategy and transformation, organizational change management, data science and AI enablement, and innovation and customer experience.
Lakeisha is also a Visiting Instructor at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business; teaching applied research and innovation in Management Consulting — challenging students to translate creative concepts into tangible, real-world solutions by using design thinking, rapid prototyping, and market validation to solve a wide range of organizational and societal problems.
She formerly served as a North America Public Sector Strategy Consulting Executive at Accenture LLP, providing strategy and technology advisory services to c-suite public administrators and elected officials across the U.S, Canada, and Mexico. Over her career, Lakeisha has worked in over six countries and has consulted clients such as the United Nations, the European Union, the Spanish Institute for Strategic Policy Studies, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and many other federal and state agencies, cities, local governments, community-based organizations, and nonprofits.
Lakeisha has a broad base of professional skills with specializations in business and growth strategy, organizational design, corporate social responsibility, technology implementation, strategic partnerships, stakeholder and community engagement, research, program and project management, analytics and data storytelling, strategic communications, innovation and design thinking, grantmaking, and grant writing. Over her career, Lakeisha has designed, implemented, and led numerous, successful public initiatives, projects, programs, policies, and campaigns that positively impact vulnerable and socially disadvantaged populations and communities around the world.
Her passion for the environment and youth stems from her early career work in education, environmental sustainability, and food security. Lakeisha has performed extensive research on local food systems and examined the intersection of sustainable agriculture and public health through her education and work with organizations like the United Nations Institute for Training & Research (UNITAR), the Global Growers Network, the Georgia Farmers Market Association, the AmeriCorps, and Wholesome Wave Georgia. At Accenture, Lakeisha served as the Atlanta Corporate Citizenship Lead and Executive Sponsor for the Environmental Sustainability impact area where she steered and oversaw the firm’s community investments in anti-human trafficking, sustainability, youth empowerment, workforce development and social inclusion.
Lakeisha is a celebrated 40 Under 40 honoree from Kennesaw State University, a distinguished alumni of Leadership Atlanta’s LEAD Class of 2024, and the creator of the Atlanta Corporate Recycling Challenge – an innovative, annual corporate recycling competition in partnership with the City’s largest corporations that has diverted over 30 million pounds of waste from landfills since its inception in 2021.
Lakeisha currently lives in between Atlanta, and Washington D.C, enjoys art, fashion, travel, music, food, community and outdoor activities, and spending time with her family and closest friends.