Jacqueline Acho Email & Phone Number

Jackie is President of The Acho Group, a strategy and leadership consulting firm. Prior to founding The Acho Group in 2005, she was a Partner of McKinsey & Company. She has worked for technology, industrial, academic, nonprofit, and economic development clients on a variety of issues, with particular focus on growth and innovation, strategy, and leadership development for 25 years. Current work includes empathy-centered cultural transformation with the Cleveland Police. Jackie received her master's degree and Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in chemistry with highest honors from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Jackie was named one of the “top 40 under 40” by Crain’s Cleveland Business Magazine and “one of the 500 most influential women in Northeast Ohio” by Northern Ohio Live magazine, and a 2019 Women Living STEM honoree. Jackie currently serves on the Board of Hyperion Materials and Technology, a KKR company. She has served on the Boards of The National Inventors Hall of Fame, The Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Jumpstart, Inc., and the Technology Commercialization Steering Committee of Case Western Reserve University, among others. She is a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 2012.Jackie taught “Finance in the Real World” in the Masters of Finance Program at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. Jackie is a featured speaker in the Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies. Jackie writes about how leaders can create an organizational Currency of Empathy® at currencyofempathy.com. In October 2014, she gave the TEDx talk: A Good Day’s Work Requires Empathy. Jackie served as a TEDx coach in 2015 and was on the Lead Speaker Curation team for 2016 TEDxCSU. She recently published the book: Currency of Empathy – The Secret to Thriving in Business & Life. In 2012, Jackie completed the 4-year program of Theological Education by Extension/Education for Ministry through Sewanee University and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights. She is a certified yoga teacher, with special focus on police/first responders. Jackie lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio with her husband, John LeMay, and their children, Sophie (17) and Grant (16).

Listed skills include Strategy, Leadership, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, and 15 others.