Yvette Owo


Business Strategy,  Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Inclusion

University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, BBA: Management 


University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts, BA: Government with University Honors


University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts: Certificate: Bridging Disciplines in Ethics and Leadership: Concentration in Politics, Law, and Social Justice


University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare, and Society: Certificate: Mindfulness Tools for Living the Full Catastrophe Program 


Mindful Living: Certificate: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction 8-Week Program 

Rice University: Certificate: Certified Financial Planner Program


Jack Canfield: Certificate: Breakthrough to Success Program


Allison Armstrong: Certificate: Understanding the Psychology of Men, Certificate: Understanding the Psychology of Women

Tony Robbins - Robbins Research Organization: Certificate: Business Mastery I - Marketing & Innovation


Tony Robbins - Robbins Research Organization: Certificate: Business Mastery II - Process & Optimization

Tony Robbins - Robbins Research Organization: Completion of 5 Programs: Business Mastery 1 and 2, Life Mastery, Wealth Mastery, and Date with Destiny, Certificate: Mastery University


Brene Brown, LLC: Certificate: Dare to Lead Facilitato

Fluent English, Basic Spanish and Yoruba 

“Improve Profit While Working Less”  - Tony Robbins Platinum Partners, Houston, TX


“Defining Your Strategic Advantage” - Houston Technology Incubator, Houston, TX


“How DEI Can Help You Build a World-Class Team" - Agriculture Investing Club, US-Wide Online Webinar 


“How to Create a More Gender Balanced Agribusiness” - Women In Agribusiness, European Annual Summit - Online 


“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Best Practices” - Portland Chapter of the American Marketing Association, Portland, Oregon


“Sales Strategy During COVID” - Portland Chapter of the American Marketing Association, Portland, Oregon


“Strategic Growth Through Differentiation” - Connection Loop, New York City, New York


“Strategic Growth During COVID” - Innovations In Business, Sedona, Arizona


“Turning Passion into Profit” - Life, Passion and Business Podcast, Frees Moray, United Kingdom 


“Strategic Growth through Referral Systems” - Russ Johns Podcast, Sun City, Arizona


“Investing in Discounted Employee Stock” - Accenture DC Office, Washington, DC


Wealth Creation - Investing 101” - Accenture African-American-Hispanic American Employee Resource Group Summit, Houston, TX


401K and Employee Stock Investing” - Accenture African-American-Hispanic American Employee Resource Group Summit, Washington, DC


Employee Discounted Stock Investing and 401(k)” - Accenture African-American-Hispanic American Employee Resource Group Summit, Chicago, Illinois


401K Investing” - Accenture- Verizon Account, Morristown, New Jersey


Employee Investing Wealth Creation” - Accenture African-American-Hispanic American, Employee Resource Group Summit, Atlanta, Georgia


Employee Investing for Wealth Creation” - Accenture African-American-Hispanic American, Employee Resource Group Summit, Houston, TX


UsingYour 401K and Discounted Stock for Wealth Creation” - Accenture Annual LGBTQ+ Conference, Saint Charles, Illinois

“Careers in Business”  - Nigerian-American Multicultural Committee, Houston, TX

“What is Strategy Consulting” - Nigerian-American Multicultural Committee, Houston, TX

“Identifying Passions & Skills”  - DC Dream Center, Washington, DC



EMPLOYMENT: Yvette Owo Coaching & Consulting 

President

2017 to Present 


  • Develop business and operations strategies for mid-sized companies, helping CEOs create profitable growth and adapt to challenging market conditions

  • Provide coaching, advising, and consulting services helping CEOs increase profit while freeing up their time

  • Improve financial reporting processes, data accuracy and cash flow planning 

  • Shape company performance management structure and employee engagement initiatives 

  • Identify new revenue opportunities with adjacent customers or services to increase revenue while minimizing marketing and sales spend

  • Help CEOs expand their leadership and business strategy toolbox and mindset

University of Texas McCombs Business School

Lecturer - Department of Management

Spring 2022 Semester

  • MAN 374 General Management and Strategy

Fall 2022 Semester

  • MAN 374 General Management and Strategy

  • MAN 374H General Management and Strategy - Honors

Accenture

Business Strategy Senior Manager 

2007 to 2017


  • Advised leaders in Fortune 500 companies on business strategy and operations strategy

  • Turned around a product launch from 2,300 downloads to 1.6 M downloads in week 1

  • Identified $300 M in strategic cost reduction opportunities

  • Planned post-merger integration for a $26 B deal 

  • Developed a 5-year digital strategy and IT operating model

  • Established cost transparency on $2B budget

  • Introduced strategy to 7th largest insurance company to increase sales by leveraging digital marketing and consumer financial behavior 

  • Oversaw complex transformation projects with team members including Accenture employees, staff from competing consultancies, clients, and independent contractors - often with mix of in-person and globally remote resources on the same project team

  • Led or served as an advisor or speaker for Employee Resource Groups and for Diversity Initiatives at office, state, country, and international levels for women, people of color and the LGBT+ communities 

  • Taught Unconscious Bias to employees and executives, as part of a train-the-trainer rollout 

  • Founded an financial literacy program teaching 5,000 employees personal finance and how to invest over additional $10 M dollars using their 401(K) and discounted company stock 

HONORS & AWARDS: Graduated with University Honors: Top 20% of Class

University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business


Graduated with University Honors: Top 20% of Class

University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts


Membership in Oldest Honorary Service Organization at UT

Orange Jackets Member - Less than 10% acceptance rate 

University of Texas at Austin


Scholarship

Plan I Honors Program

University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts


Archer Fellowship Program

Selected for UT in DC Program Internship & Coursework   

University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts


Scholarship 

For participants in the Archer Fellowship Program  

University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts


Scholarship

For Activities Progressing Women & Diversity  

Young Women’s Alliance 


Top 10% or 20% in Annual Practice Performance Ranking 

Accenture  

2010, 2012 to 2017



SELECTED WORK:

EXPERIENCE Yvette Owo Coaching & Consulting - Client Results


Business Process Efficiency: Streamline processes for 100-person organization, increasing efficiency and effectiveness while improving customer satisfaction


New Service Launch: Identified new service that can be bundled with existing services and sold to a warm market of 60,000 existing leads; developed a webinar marketing strategy with minimal marketing costs


Profit Margin Expansion: Increased pricing and created higher-end packages; streamlined the sales process; implemented referral strategy that increased revenue by 200% with zero marketing costs 


Strategic Cost Reduction: Identified cost savings opportunities with vendor contract negotiations, vendor changes, and outsourcing, while maintaining customer satisfaction 


Performance Management & Culture Transformation: Introduced performance management process including, increased role clarity; individual and group performance metrics, incentives, and disincentives tied to company profitability; and employee engagement initiatives for a hybrid workforce 


Accenture


Cost Reduction: Quantified the value of 38 individual cost initiatives with zero headcount reduction, resulting in $300 M cost savings, a 25% budget reduction


Cost Transparency: Developed processes for reporting, categorization, and database management to provide cost transparency to CFO on $2 B budget 


Product Launch: Turned around a product launch from a target of only 2,300 download to reach $1.6 M downloads in 1 week and introduced in an app revenue steam, leading to a joint venture with 2 Fortune 10 companies 


Product Launch: Developed business case and oversaw pilot launch of new product for logistics shipping company; turning around the focus group and beta launch process  


Readiness for Robotics Implementation: Developed readiness plan, role redesign, impact analysis, and change management strategy for a top 7 insurance company implementing optical character recognition 


Mergers & Acquisition Integration: Planned the integration of the two business units that were the driving factor for an $26B M&A deal between the #2 and #3 players in the industry


Digital Strategy: Developed 5-year digital strategy for a Fortune 1 company, evaluated the proposed benefits between Azure versus AWS and PaaS versus SaaS and quantified the cost-savings for making a transformational vs incremental IT strategic plan


IT Operating Model: Outlined the operating model, role changes and job functions required to support the 5-Year Digital Strategy


Change Management: Planned change management for rollout of 2-factor logical access system impacting 80,000 employees 


Job Change Rollout: Identified changes to roles & jobs resulting from a series of M&As and large scale technology transformation at top 4 oil and gas pipeline company

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