Yvens Mambwi

An accomplished and business savvy professional with robust experience as a highly educated professor at Universities with Active Security Clearance. Result-oriented and self-driven professional with over 20 years of experience and expertise in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in business and management. Possess veritable leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills that help put things across a crisp point. Experts in curriculum delivery and development for student engagement, and assessment, and always giving them the nudge in the right direction to go the extra mile, help achieve what seemed difficult with ease. I am passionate about teaching and learning and committed to preparing the next generation of business leaders.

• Investigation of Cross-Cultural Competence at Workplaces: An Ethnographic
• Inquiry of Congolese Diaspora 'Experiences; Northcentral University, US (2017
• Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy in DR Congo. Dissertation of Featured Work: University of Maryland University College, US (2013
• Forecast Analysis of IT Sale Products within a Viable Enterprise. DR Congo Dissertation defended to obtain the title of Bachelor. ISC (1999)

• Lead the Leadership and Culture team and deliver key Group wide outputs, including the implementation of Interconnection Employee Engagement survey, increasing the participation rate by 10% in a year, achieving “highest response rate globally”
• Responsible for the projects and grants of $10 Million for assigned region, development, and implementation of strategic to improve business participation, economic freedom, and opportunity across the African continent by developing country strategies, project implementation, and support grants across Sub-Saharan Africa business organizations
• Responsible for the Leadership development program which implemented Business Leader learning pathways including purpose designed around business strategy, management training, strategic planning, team building, coaching and built leadership development programs under hardship conditions.

• Designed and implemented a new course on Business Model Innovation with 20% increase in student ratings after 1st semester from 3.5/5 to 4.3/5 (96% NPS).
• Developed a framework for evaluating startup ideas based on customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, etc., which was used by over 100 startups across India & Singapore during workshops conducted by me as well as other faculty members.
• Conducted more than 10 workshops on entrepreneurship for college students across Dallas including sessions at School of Management, SIES College of Arts & Commerce among others where I interacted with over 1000 aspiring entrepreneurs and guided them through the ideation process using Lean Canvas methodology developed by Ashcan Ventures founder Akshay Kulkarni.
• Presented research findings at national conferences such as IIMA Annual Conference 2018 held at U.S Military Academic and organized events like Best Buy Gateway conference 2018 attended by 300+ delegates from various colleges across Dallas and hosted it at my own institute – Institute of Engineering & Management Studies (IEMS) under the leadership of Prof Raghu Raman who is also one of my mentors.