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 Facilitator
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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