Curt J. Howes

Biography

After earning a master’s degree in organizational communications and business at Brigham Young University and pursuing doctoral studies at Rutgers University, Curt worked for eighteen years at Exxon, where his responsibilities included leadership development and advanced-management education. He then worked at Accenture for eight years, serving as an associate partner for the organizational-change-strategy practice in the resource sector. He then went on to found Organization Performance Strategies, a global consulting strategy and organization performance consulting practice. He partnered with major consulting firms around the world. Curt has consulted with numerous international organizations, including Cobalt International Energy (Houston, Texas), Mecca Municipality (Saudi Arabia), Orascom (Egypt), Protection of Women and Children (Saudi Arabia), the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (Saudi Arabia), Tosco (Phoenix, Arizona), BP Angola (London and Angola), TNK BP (Moscow, Russia), BG (Brisbane, Australia), Exxon affiliates (United States), TXU (Dallas, Texas), Aramco (Saudi Arabia), PDVSA (Venezuela), ADNOC (Abu Dhabi), and the Ministry of Water and Electricity (Saudi Arabia), among many others. Based on this extensive consulting work, he published the book, Organization Performance: The Key to Success in the 21^st Century.  Prior to joining USU faculty, he served on the advisory board of the organizational-behavior/human-resources track of Brigham Young University’s MBA program, taught case-study classes in the MBA classes there, and also at Utah State University’s business school. He is currently an Executive in Residence/ lecturer at Utah State University Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Center of Entrepreneurship of Business, Center of Entrepreneurship with a particular focus on applied learning and using actual cases from his extensive business experiences globally. He also co-led the startup of a consulting minor along with teaching a core consulting skills class and leading change.  While teaching full time at USU, he continues his entrepreneurial consulting practice for special requests including developing a 100 day play for 2 CEO’s in the Middle East, and helping companies develop their strategies.