Talent Acquisition: How to Successfully Hire a Consultants to Fuel Business Growth with Wendy Johnson

<p><strong>Wendy Johnson</strong> started out as an M&A consultant at Accenture, and she got to IBM ten years ago. Now, she is the Vice President at PagerDuty.</p> <p>In this episode, Wendy talks about the reasons you work with a consultant and not just with someone internally. She emphasize the idea of looking at pricing not as a project but as a process that needs tweaking as you go along and not overhauling.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Why you have to check out today's podcast:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Discover the reasons how companies benefit from hiring external consultants</li> <li>Find out the advantages and disadvantages of hiring external vs. internal consultants.</li> <li>Find out how to hire and work with an excellent consultant to avoid wasting money, time, and effort.</li> </ul> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p align="center"><strong>“Structure your data and your dashboards in a way to inform all your decisions and such that all of the decisions you make in pricing could be data-driven.”</strong> <em>- Wendy Johnson</em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Topics Covered:</strong></p> <p>01:39 - Why is it relevant to talk now about a topic on consultants</p> <p>02:15 - Getting consultants versus hiring them</p> <p>04:52 - Making the most of a consultant’s engagement with the company</p> <p>06:04 - Engaging consultants and the value they contribute to the company</p> <p>07:25 - Driving force behind onboarding a consultant</p> <p>08:11 - Observation on how consultants work</p> <p>09:03 - Consultants hiring their own excellent talents</p> <p>11:00 - Why hire a pricing leader in your company before hiring a consultant</p> <p>12:34 - What you can do to get other executives involved in getting a consultant</p> <p>13:12 - One good thing to think about getting data analysts to get involved with consultants</p> <p>13:58 - Way of knowing for a successful engagement</p> <p>15:32 - Disagreeable actions consultants do and how to avoid them</p> <p>17:18 - Thoughts on hiring second consultants and pricing</p> <p>19:21 -