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R. Yvonne Campos Yvonne founded Campos Inc in 1986. She is nationally-recognized moderator, speaker, and consultant who brings over 25 years of designing, strategizing, and implementing market research for corporations, educational institutions, non-profits and professional organizations. She works directly with major clients as a consultant, moderator, and facilitator. Yvonne's expertise lies in her ability to listen, engage, and synthesize information into actionable market strategies for her clients. She developed her moderating skills over thousands of groups and many market categories. In the past 10 years, Yvonne has evolved her group facilitation skills to consulting services in the strategic planning area, peer-to-peer learning groups, workshops, and customer advisory councils. Her ability to understand client needs, research approaches, and to execute insightful facilitation is what makes her so valuable to clients. Yvonne has received numerous awards for her entrepreneurial spirit and civic engagement, including the Pittsburgh Business Times’s 2011 CEO Diamond Award for her tenacity and leadership in business. She received the Small Business Administration's Minority Small Business Person of the Year award and was selected as the Vectors Pittsburgh Small Business Person of the Year. She was the recipient of the Pennsylvania Chamber's Small Business Leadership Award, and was selected to participate in Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government Inaugural Class of Women Leadership and Power. Yvonne was named one of the Top 50 Business Women in the State of Pennsylvania and is consistently included in the Pittsburgh Business Times’s Top Women in Business annual list. Yvonne served as the first female president of the Pittsburgh Rotary Club in its 85-year history. She is also a long-time member of the American Marketing Association (AMA), Market Research Association (MRA), National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), International Women's Forum (IWF), Women’s Leadership Forum, Executive Women’s Council (EWC) and the Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA). She currently serves as a board member to Goodwill Industries of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Dance Council, Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, WQED Multimedia, and Highmark, Inc. She is also involved in the Regional Investor’s Council for the Allegheny Conference and the Greater Pittsburgh Non-Profit Partnership. Yvonne is the founder and facilitator of the Women Presidents’ Organization’s (WPO) Pittsburgh Chapter. Its membership consists of women presidents with companies that have annual revenue of one million-plus, and its mission is "to increase the business and financial success of women presidents and to provide a confidential environment in which women presidents of diverse backgrounds openly discuss issues and concerns, celebrate success and develop innovative solutions to business challenges." She is a former board member of the the Women Presidents’ Organization’s National Board. Yvonne received her BS in Psychology at the University of Utah, and is a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh's Class XI, Tepper School of Business’s Donald H. Jones Entrepreneurship Program, Tuck Executive Education Program and Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program. |
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