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Executive Support For Pricing Transformation

In this #PricingPodcast Adele McLean, VP of Holden Advisors shares the methods to secure Executive support in your pricing strategies. Experience proves that successful businesses depend on Executive support, yet, particularly within the pricing industry, Executives often don't understand the organization's metrics. Pricing professionals must implement value capture appropriately in order to maximize the results. In our new #PricingPodcast, we chat with Adele McLean, Vice President of Holden Advisors, to uncover the best ways pricing professionals within the organization can receive the mindshare deserved... and bring home the pricing bacon. Better known as profit. Click the image below to listen to the #PricingPodcast:

About Adele:

Currently, Adele McLean serves as the Vice President of Holden Advisors. In this role, she leads teams in the development of pricing and sales solutions that result in improved price realization, shorter sales cycles, and increased revenue. In addition, Adele facilitates world-class programs with global sales teams to transform price negotiations and level the playing field with procurement. Under Adele's leadership, companies have experienced significant profit gains and improved performance results. She specializes in sales operations, supplier management, supply chain management, product pricing, process integration, and change management.


Previously, Adele McLean was Vice President of Business Operations and Vice President of World Wide Sales for Western Digital. She has held leadership positions in finance, operations and sales positions at IBM, Seagate Technologies, and Avaya. She received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and her master’s degree in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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