Accenture Acquires Leadership Firm YSC Consulting

Strategic Acquisition to Enhance C-Suite and Board Transformations

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired YSC Consulting, a CEO advisory and leadership consultancy that helps organizations align leadership strategies with their business goals to achieve transformational change. The acquisition strengthens Accenture’s capabilities to advise the CEO, C-Suite, and Board with solutions to boost performance and build leadership teams for the future. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Serving corporate and private equity clients for more than 30 years, YSC Consulting has a proven track record in helping organizations to define their leadership strategies and assess and develop their C-suite and senior executive teams. Headquartered in the U.K., and with teams also based in North America, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, China, and South Africa, YSC Consulting’s team of more than 200 employees joins Accenture’s Talent & Organization / Human Potential team.