Accenture acquires YSC Consulting to 'boost performance' in advising
YSC Consulting has served corporate and private equity clients for more than 30 years and helps organisations with leadership strategies
Accenture has acquired London-based YSC Consulting to strengthen its capabilities in advising the CEO, C-Suite and board with solutions.
YSC Consulting has served corporate and private equity clients for more than 30 years and claims to help organisations with leadership strategies.
As well as the UK, it also has teams based in North America, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, China, and South Africa.
Accenture says the deal will help it "boost performance" and build "leadership teams for the future".
The acquisition will see YSC Consulting's team of more than 200 employees joins Accenture's talent and organisation/human potential team.
"Leaders must meet new expectations to win the hearts and minds of employees and customers in a rapidly changing world," said Christie Smith, global lead of talent & organisation / human potential at Accenture.
"Successful business leaders thrive through the application of meaningful purpose and the use of technology to lead with accuracy, speed, empathy, and transparency. It's at the cross-section of these values where Accenture and YSC Consulting truly align. We look forward to coming together and helping clients maximize their impact and carve a successful future steered by modern leadership."
Accenture has acquired YSC Consulting from UK private equity firm Graphite Capital.
YSC Consulting has been a partner to 45 per cent of the FTSE 100 and serves more than 40 per cent of the largest private equity firms globally.
It's CEO Eric Pliner said: "At a moment when the world needs brilliant leadership more than ever, we are thrilled to join Accenture and bring the best of our expertise in individual leadership, team dynamics, diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, and technology-enabled talent analytics in a respected and rapidly growing platform."
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.