Candace is a partner in McKinsey’s Marketing & Sales Practice and the global coleader of our B2B digital sales and analytics work. Her expertise spans commercial excellence, marketing and sales strategy and execution, digital sales and marketing, e-commerce, go-to-market strategy, sales compensation, and B2B-customer decision journeys.
Candace specializes in helping businesses develop and deliver strategic-improvement programs in commercial functions across a range of B2B and B2B2C industries, such as industrial, high tech, medical technology, healthcare, and packaged goods. She is the architect of McKinsey’s go-to-market-excellence and commercial-excellence workshops, in which more than 3,500 top sales executives from around 1,000 marquee companies have participated.
Before joining McKinsey, Candace was the chief marketing and sales officer for a B2B technology start-up, worked at the US Mission to the United Nations, and worked in brand management for a global personal and household care products company. She frequently publishes on marketing and sales topics as a contributor to Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Forbes, and Selling Power.
Published work
“Five fundamental truths: How B2B winners keep growing,” McKinsey & Company, September 2024
“The multiplier effect: How B2B winners grow,” McKinsey & Company, April 2023
“Becoming indispensable: Moving past e-commerce to NeXT commerce,” McKinsey & Company, November 2022
“The new B2B growth equation,” McKinsey & Company, February 2022
“Busting the five biggest B2B e-commerce myths,” McKinsey & Company, January 2022
“B2B sales: Omnichannel everywhere, every time,” McKinsey & Company, December 2021
“How B2B sales have changed during COVID-19,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“The B2B digital inflection point: How sales have changed during COVID-19,” McKinsey & Company, April 2020
“Cultivating the omnichannel farmer,” McKinsey & Company, February 2019
“Sales incentives that boost growth,” McKinsey & Company, October 2018
“The secret to making it in the digital sales world: The human touch,” McKinsey & Company, May 2018
“To improve B2B customer experience, get the digital-analog balance right,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, February 2018
“When B2B buyers want to go digital—and when they don’t,” McKinsey Quarterly, August 2017
“Six things B2B leaders do to become more agile and drive growth,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, April 2017
“Leading B2B companies are using digital to power sales growth,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, April 2017
“Good to great: What B2B companies do to raise their Digital Quotient,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, April 2017
“Measuring B2B’s digital gap,” McKinsey Quarterly, January 2017
“How B2B digital leaders drive five times more revenue growth than their peers,” McKinsey & Company, October 2016
“Six steps to transform your marketing and sales capabilities,” McKinsey & Company, March 2015
“Do you really understand how your business customers buy?,” McKinsey Quarterly, February 2015
“To Improve Sales, Pay More Attention to Presales,” Harvard Business Review, February 2015
“The 90% success recipe: Commercial transformations that beat the odds and the market,” Forbes, September 2014
Past experience
Procter & Gamble
Brand management
Education
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
MA, international relations, conflict management
Harvard University
BA, experimental psychology and international relations
