Meet Our Mentors: Omari Miller

Omari Miller
Strategic Partnerships & Business Development, T-Mobile

I am the head of Business Growth for the design consultancy IA Collaborative. I work closely with functional stakeholders across the organization’s leadership and oversee teams and operations to implement and execute business growth strategies.

“I had a tremendous experience in the Hybrid MBA program — one which would have been even greater had I had the opportunity to benefit from a mentorship relationship like this. I hope that my contribution can be that to another Foster student.”

As a mentor, I excel at…

• Crafting growth strategies and methodically executing them for desired outcomes in fast-growing companies.
• Revamped teams, tools, and workflows to drive growth and efficiency simultaneously.
• Utilizing systems thinking to manage change and ambiguity, delivering clearly defined OKRs and quantifiable business outcomes.
• Managing cross-functional teams with expertise in customer, market, and operational analysis, growth metrics, strategy development, go-to-market planning, IP management, and negotiation.
• Structuring and managing collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

When I have free time, I…

enjoy traveling with my family, flying (I’m a pilot), advising non-profit groups serving incredible missions (I sit on a pair of boards), and engaging in sports (watching and playing).

The best career decision I’ve made was…

deciding not to practice law and instead going into business development after law school (much to my mother’s eternal chagrin).

I find inspiration…

from conversations with smart, driven, resourceful people.

My motto/tagline is…

“Son, leave that how you found it.” <-I’ve got three boys at home. This is more practical than inspirational.

I once waited in line for…

a picture with Biz Markie at Dulles International. He was mobbed by long-time fans who recognized him waiting for a flight. I’ll admit that I did not immediately recognize him. He/we aged a lot since the 80’s when I listened to him… but my toddler recognized him from his then-favorite show, “Yo Gabba Gabba.”

Originally published at https://blog.foster.uw.edu on February 1, 2022.