


As cutting-edge pricing, sales, and negotiation solution providers, Holden Advisors presents a simple value proposition—apply straightforward methods and frameworks to solve the most challenging profit problems. A team of steadfast industry thought leaders, they avoid cookie-cutter approaches and instead tailor each solution after gaining a thorough knowledge of a client's internal and external environment. "We have a broad understanding of what companies need to implement without overcomplicating it. We utilize practical application of advanced theories while engaging heavily in research and publications to help clients take charge of their differential value," states Reed Holden, Founder and author. "Furthermore, we are a group of proactive problem solvers who can pivot quickly based on the insights we have developed, because every so often the problem isn't what the client initially thought it might be.”
Here the leaders break into an example: the commercial head of an organization believed that their core problem lay in price discounting and an ultimate lack of pricing strategy. When Holden Advisors analyzed the situation, they realized that the real problem was a lack of visibility into standard pricing as well as broader revenue reporting issues across the IT and business teams. In addition, the client wanted more insights into customer segmentation. While most firms would pick a top-down approach, the industry veterans at Holden Advisors, realized that would not best serve the client nor their customers. "On the contrary, we went in and followed a bottoms-up approach to understand the needs of each customer, instead of bracketing them into pre-defined market segments," says Adele.

The case study of a large company with over five million customers better explains his statement. The client attained insights through manual processes and subscribed to traditional database management. They generated millions of rows of data each month and were unable to produce actionable business insights from such large volumes of information. With Holden Advisors, the client implemented a data collection engine and, for the first time ever, had a comprehensive view of their entire customer base in a revenue dashboard. Holden worked with a big data partner to gather, amend, and clean all the data, apply logic and identify outliers by customer groups, and ultimately enable cross functional teams to take action and deliver measurable results.
To help companies better capture their value, Holden Advisors has a proven sales performance improvement program called 'Negotiating with Backbone,' which allows teams to quantify value, tie it to pricing, and execute it through the commercial teams. This framework, alongside the company's digital e-learning modules and proprietary IP, creates a winning solution for clients across industries.
When asked about their future plans, Adele humorously mentions, "We want to help our clients dominate their industries." With a global client base and strong partnerships, the company is looking at delivering Negotiating with Backbone and their pricing competency across the globe. But largely for Holden Advisors, it's all about taking their client’s value proposition and resulting profits to the next level!
Company
Holden Advisors
Headquarters
Concord, MA
Management
Adele McLean, Vice President
and Reed Holden, Founder
Description
Experts in pricing, sales performance, and negotiation,
helping clients realize their differential value
