Barbara Adey

Vice President, North America – Sales and Marketing Practice

Barbara Adey leads the North America Sales and Marketing Practice for BTS.  She specializes in commercial transformation, bringing her experience in the end-to-end sales process from marketing to customer success.

While at BTS, Barbara led the assessment of sales strategy and operations of a $10B+ SaaS company, providing a plan for a two-year transformation.  Her team was retained by a leading cloud service provider to transform go-to-market through dynamic business acumen and industry vertical fluency for their Enterprise account teams.  She has also worked with two $1B+ software companies to embed new customer success frameworks across their sales process.

Prior to joining BTS, Barbara held executive roles in Silicon Valley at Cisco and at Hewlett Packard in sales, strategy, and product management.  She has entered new markets and has three times scaled a product from zero to hundreds of millions in revenues.  She also kept a multi-$B product line at #1 share for three years in an intensely competitive market.

Industry expertise

Barbara is a systems design engineer with digital transformation expertise in cloud, security, software, and SaaS.  Over the course of her career, she has worked in every part of the value chain.

Publications

Blog Posts
January 29, 2024
5
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Better forecasting accuracy is achievable – Here’s how

Improving sales forecasting accuracy leads to more effective budgeting and planning so teams can make decisions with greater confidence.

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Blog Posts
May 2, 2022
5
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Industry acumen for sales effectiveness

Barbara Adey, VP and Head of North America Sales and Marketing Practice at BTS, shares reasons that customer empathy is key for sellers.

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Blog Posts
June 1, 2020
5
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If you want your sales team to be effective, focus on business acumen

Business acumen is critical for all leaders, but this is especially true for sellers. Barbara Adey, Vice President at BTS, shares how to help your sales team develop the business acumen they need to be successful.

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Podcasts
December 1, 2023
5
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Anchoring go-to-market process and methodology to the customer journey

Barbara Adey, VP, Jason Davis, Senior Director, and Rick Cheatham, CMO, discuss a customer-centric approach to sales methodology and process.

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Podcasts
September 21, 2023
5
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Revenue growth from first principles with Barbara Adey

Barbara Adey, Head of NA Sales and Marketing, and Rick Cheatham, CMO, share how to maneuver high interest rates, stagnating growth, and more.

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Podcasts
April 20, 2023
5
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Selling to executives, with Barbara Adey

In this podcast, Barbara Adey, Head of the NA SAM GTM, talks executive engagement: showing up as a peer, creating business value, and more.

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Interested in joining the BTS team?

BTS is working to modernize business culture around the globe. We’re looking for creative, courageous, and empathetic individuals who want to help individuals and teams find a greater purpose in their work. We love what we do, and we think you would too.