Sherida Hinckson has spent more than a decade building expertise at the intersection of energy, workforce, and community — because she believes that access to clean energy and access to economic opportunity are really the same problem.
She is the founder and CEO of Green Quotient Solutions (GQS), a certified MWBE boutique consultancy helping municipalities, public-serving institutions and workforce organizations navigate the energy transition through strategic advisory, workforce program design, and market intelligence. She is also the founder of G.O.L.D.R.U.S.H. Association, an international nonprofit leveraging the cultural capital of the Guyanese diaspora to drive development in Guyana, and a board member of the All Stars Project of New Jersey.
As a seasoned bilingual public speaker with TEDx experience, Sherida speaks on clean energy, workforce development, MWBE entrepreneurship, and the intersection of sustainability, equity, and economic opportunity.
Sherida grew up between two worlds. In Guyana, she was surrounded by land that produced food, water that ran through trenches outside the door, and a family that knew how to make something from nothing — but power outages were routine, economic opportunity was scarce, and the path forward was rarely clear. In the United States, she encountered a different kind of scarcity: neighborhoods with underfunded schools, communities sitting at the edge of one of the wealthiest economies in the world with limited access to what it was producing.
Both worlds asked the same question that she has spent her career trying to answer:
Why isn’t access to opportunity equitable — and what resources exist to democratize it?
That question is the thread that runs through everything she does. It’s why she built GQS to serve the institutions expected to lead the energy transition but rarely resourced to do it. It’s why she founded GOLDRUSH — because she believes the Guyanese diaspora carries expertise, networks, and resources powerful enough to transform opportunity in their homeland when deliberately mobilized. It’s why she has shown up at the All Stars Project for over a decade, because investing in young people that systems have underestimated is among the highest-return work there is.
Sherida’s entry point into energy wasn’t renewables — it was oil, gas, and carbon, from the inside.
At Ernst & Young, she contributed to EY’s Oil and Gas Production and ESG Benchmarking Studies and provided on-site accounting and consulting services to one of Colombia’s largest petroleum producers, conducting research and client work entirely in Spanish. As part of EY Colombia’s expanding carbon consulting practice, she helped corporate clients develop strategies for carbon credits and emissions management — building analytical fluency in how conventional energy systems account for their environmental obligations.
Starting her career at the intersection of fossil fuels, financial accountability, and emerging climate policy gave her a working knowledge of the energy economy that most clean energy advocates don’t have — and that her clients find invaluable.
From carbon accounting inside a petroleum company to battery storage research at one of the world’s leading energy intelligence firms — Sherida’s career has moved deliberately across the full energy spectrum.
At BloombergNEF, she led the acquisition, transformation, and analysis of battery energy storage system data, conducted interconnection queue analysis across U.S. energy markets including CAISO, and delivered market intelligence to institutional clients navigating an accelerating energy transition. Working at a firm whose research shapes how major investors, utilities, and policymakers understand energy markets gave her a command of both the data and the language that serious energy stakeholders use.
That combination — knowing how fossil fuel systems work from the inside, and knowing how clean energy markets are being built from the research level up — is the analytical foundation she brings to her professional engagements.
Sherida’s vision is a world where the answer to who gets opportunity is not determined by where you were born, what neighborhood you grew up in, or whether the systems around you were built with you in mind. Through consulting, nonprofit leadership, education, and public discourse, she is building toward that world — one workforce program, one young person, one community at a time.
If that work resonates with you, she’d like to connect.
Sherida’s vision is to create a world where access, opportunity, and empowerment are universal. Through thought-provoking dialogue, collaborative initiatives, and strategic leadership, she aims to inspire positive change, foster cross-cultural understanding, and drive sustainable development in underserved communities worldwide.