Tracy Watkins, MBA

Tracywatkins@novatransformationsgroup.com

About

Tracy D. Watkins, MBA, is an AI-powered customer experience and digital transformation leader with 20+ years of success modernizing enterprise organizations and elevating how people interact with technology. She is the Founder and Principal Consultant of NOVA Transformations Consulting Group, where she helps organizations turn customer insight, data, and emerging technology into clear strategies and measurable results.

Her career spans aviation, SaaS, and enterprise technology environments, with deep expertise in AI-enabled experience design, customer insights, journey mapping, and enterprise modernization. Tracy is known for transforming fragmented processes into intelligent, human centered experiences that strengthen teams, improve performance, and deliver real business impact.

Before founding NOVA Transformations, Tracy spent over a decade at Delta Air Lines in progressive leadership roles across innovation, customer experience, and IT business consulting. There, she led AI-driven initiatives, established insight-driven operating models, and delivered programs that improved efficiency, optimized systems, and enhanced customer engagement.

Tracy blends strategic vision with hands-on execution. She excels at aligning cross-functional teams, translating technical complexity into clear direction, and building momentum around customer-focused innovation. She holds an MBA in Organizational Leadership and a degree in Computer Information Systems. She is passionate about helping organizations lead with clarity and confidence in an AI-driven world

Credentials

• Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner

Education

• Columbia Southern University – Masters in Business Administration

• Clark Atlanta University – Computer information Science

Membership

• I AM D.O.P.E (Daughter of Purpose and Excellence) – Founder

Kate Rouse DuHadway

kate.rouse@novatransformationsgroup.com

About

Kate is an insights leader with 14 years of experience in strategic storytelling and research. She excels at understanding business problems, identifying and finding solutions through consumer research, and coaching teams in developing customer-centered business strategies.

Kate has always been at the forefront of using technology to inform strategy and democratize insights. At Delta, she leads the Insights Hub, a searchable AI-powered library of customer and employee research & insights. She also teaches internal workshops on how to use AI in the workplace to unlock capabilities that have never existed before, while centering human creativity and teamwork.

Kate is a native English speaker who also speaks fluent German and Polish, as well as conversational Spanish. In her personal life, she enjoys hiking and other outdoor sports, up-cycling clothes and jewelry, and traveling with her kids.

Education

Michigan State University – Masters in Marketing Research

Utah State University – Journalism, International Studies

Tolu Okeowo

tolulopeokeowo@novatransformationsgroup.com

About

Tolu Okeowo is a technology and product strategist focused on helping organizations turn complex ideas into practical, high-impact digital solutions. His work sits at the intersection of AI, cloud technology, and user-centered product design, where strategy meets execution.

He specializes in building scalable applications, modernizing digital systems, and creating intelligent, data-driven experiences that move businesses forward. From cloud-native architectures to AI-powered personalization, Tolu focuses on solutions that are not only innovative but also practical, measurable, and built for long-term growth.

His approach is straightforward: understand the real problem, design the right strategy, and deliver technology that works in the real world. He partners with teams to bring clarity to complex initiatives, align technology with business goals, and turn ideas into tangible results.

Whether launching new products, modernizing existing platforms, or exploring the role of AI in customer experience, Tolu helps organizations move with confidence in an increasingly digital world.

Education

University of Oklahoma – Masters in Data Science and Analytics

University of Houston – Computer Engineering, Bachelors

Membership

• Blacks in Technology

• National Society of Black Engineers