Bernadette McClelland
Sales Leader of Influence™

⭐ The Flagship Engagement

Fractional Sales Leadership

Senior Sales Leadership, Embedded in Your Business.

Not a consultant. Not a coach. Not a retainer where someone reads your reports and sends you advice.

A senior sales leader, working inside your business, with real accountability to your revenue outcomes.

What's Different About Fractional work

Embedded - not advisory

I work inside your team with real accountability to outcomes. Not a fly-in, fly-out engagement.

VP-level thinking at fractional cost

Senior sales leadership without the $200K+ full-time salary, on-costs, and risk.

Decision-Led Revenue™ framework

Built on a proven system – not improvised advice or generic best practice.

Builds capability, not dependency

When we’re done, your team leads without me. That’s the point.

20+
Years Leading Sales
Global
Deployment Experience
5
Core Capabilities

Growing Revenue Is Hard Without the Right Leader in the Room.

The Problem

Most growing businesses hit the same wall. The founder, CEO or sales leader is still closing deals. The team is inconsistent. There’s no real sales culture – just activity, pressure, and lots of hope.

A full-time VP of Sales costs $200K+. A generic sales coach gives you frameworks you never implement. A consultant delivers a deck and disappears.

Leadership without authority creates confusion. Decisions without momentum stalls deals. Execution without accountability is lost revenue. Predictable revenue only happens when all three work together.

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Revenue is inconsistent month to month

You can’t forecast reliably, you can’t scale confidently, and you’re not sure why some reps hit and others miss every quarter.

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You're between sales leaders - or never had one

Every week without senior sales leadership is costing you momentum, pipeline, and team confidence.

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Good people, unclear process

Your team has potential but no real system. Everyone’s working hard – but not always in the same direction.

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Decisions land back on you - every time

Your managers escalate instead of deciding. Deals stall internally. The leader ends up carrying everything.


There is a better way.

What FRACTIONAL SALES LEADERSHIP Actually Is

Embedded Sales Leadership. Not a Consulting Engagement.

Fractional Sales Leadership means I work inside your business – attending your pipeline reviews, coaching your managers in real scenarios, shaping your sales culture, and owning your revenue strategy alongside you.

I bring the full Sales Leader of Influence™ system with me – five integrated capabilities that address every dimension where leadership behaviour affects revenue predictability.

This is not about adding more process. It’s about making the leadership that already exists steadier, clearer, and more effective under pressure and the team more accountable to results and outcomes.

Not a consultant who delivers a deck and disappears

Not a coach who only works 1:1 with the leader

Not a retainer where someone reads reports and gives advice

Not a training programme that ends when the workshop does

Embedded leadership — accountable to your revenue, working in your business

The Process

How Fractional Sales Leadership Works

Every engagement follows a proven progression – from diagnosing where revenue is being lost to embedding the leadership behaviours that keep it predictable.

1
Diagnose

Revenue Risk Review

We start with an honest assessment of where decisions are breaking down – inside your leaders, inside your deals, and inside your team structure. No assumptions.

2
Design

Strategy & Architecture

We define your revenue architecture – role clarity, ownership, pipeline discipline, and the leadership behaviours that need to change for revenue to stabilise.

3
DEVELOP

Leadership Integration

I work inside the business – pipeline reviews, team coaching, real deals, live scenarios. The Sales Leader of Influence™ System gets embedded, not just taught.

4
DELIVER

Build to Independence

The end goal is a team and leadership structure that doesn’t need me. We build capability, not dependency. You keep the system – I step back when it’s running.

The Sales Leader of Influence™ System

Five Capabilities. One Integrated System.

Our Fractional Sales Leadership approach brings the complete Sales Leader of Influence™ Sethod into your business – all five dimensions, working together. Each addresses a specific point where leadership behaviour affects revenue predictability.

1

Manage YOURSelf

Authority Under Pressure

Prevents forecast variance and margin erosion. Leaders recognise and disrupt automatic behaviours that trade their authority when scrutiny is highest.

CROs, VP Sales, Sales Leaders accountable for forecast reliability

2

Motivate Others

Hold the Decision Line

Prevents late-stage deal loss by reading buyer and team psychology early – before resistance causes deals to stall or objections arrive as surprises.

Sales Leaders and CROs accountable for pipeline velocity

3

Mentor the Team

Own Your Number

Defines role responsibility and revenue ownership via the Role and Revenue Architecture™ – so teams move faster and deliver consistent outcomes.

CROs, VP Sales, CEOs accountable for role clarity

4

Mobilise the Business

Coach the Human & Deal

Reframes coaching from ad-hoc activity into a repeatable leadership standard. Early diagnosis of beliefs and behaviour replaces reactive firefighting and losses.

VP Sales and Sales Leaders shifting behaviour — not just outcomes

5

Multiply Your Impact

Lead with Influence

Builds out expertise, thought leadership and market authority to attract talent, commands premium, and creates board-level influence and commercialise your IP.

Sales Leaders and CROs ready to influence their market

A Fractional Sales Leader Is Right for You If This Sounds Familiar.

Is This For You?

Fractional Sales Leadership works best in specific situations. It’s not for everyone – and that’s intentional. The engagements that work are the ones where the business is ready.

If you’re a founder, CEO, or board member responsible for revenue growth in a mid-market, privately owned business – and you’re ready to invest in getting the team on the right track,  revenue reliability stabilized and leadership right – this is for you.

Not sure if you’re ready? Start with the Revenue Risk Review — a no-obligation conversation to assess where the gaps are and whether FSL is the right fit.

Situation

You're between VP Sales hires and losing momentum

The gap is expensive. Hiring a Fractional Sales Leader gives you senior leadership now, without a rushed hire you’ll regret.

Situation

Revenue is growing but becoming harder to predict

The early chaos that worked at $5M doesn’t scale to $10M and beyond. You need a system before things break and to keep things growing.

Situation

You have a sales team but no real sales culture

Good people, inconsistent results. Culture change needs someone embedded – not a keynote.

Situation

Your CEO or founder is still the best closer

This is a dependency problem, not a talent problem. Fractional Sales Leadership breaks that pattern – permanently.

Situation

You need board-level confidence in your revenue forecast

Investors and boards need predictability. Hiring a Fractional Sales Leader builds the leadership behaviours that make forecasts reliable.

Results

What Happens When You Have the Right Leader in Your Corner

Real results, outcomes and transformations from real businesses – across industries and company sizes.

“Bernadette helped identify where leadership behaviour was impacting execution. She brought clarity to how decisions were made, how people were held accountable, and where responsibility needed to sit. The impact was felt immediately.”
David Tagg
Sales Leader, Crown Posture
“The greatest benefit was the clarity it gave us as a leadership team - how to train new salespeople, set expectations, and hold performance standards consistently. The system removed ambiguity and improved execution from onboarding onward.”
Sam Rowse
CEO, Machship
Sales Leader of Influence - Sam Rouse
“Bernadette’s work strengthened our leadership framework and improved alignment toward shared commercial goals. It had a direct impact on how decisions were made and executed across the organisation.”
Tina Economou
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Ricoh ANZ
“You kept our leadership team engaged and focused on what mattered. I applied the frameworks immediately - it shifted us away from generic sales dialogue toward commercially relevant discussions.”
Damon Lembi
CEO, LearnIt
“The frameworks gave us a clearer commercial narrative. We applied them directly to an international approach and saw lead generating opportunities increase from an average of 50 to 200+ senior leaders.”
Jeff Naylor
CEO, SIRF Roundtables ANZ
“The frameworks clarified how leadership decisions translated into execution. It strengthened our ability to align strategy with action and move forward with confidence. To anyone hesitant - dive in.”
Darren Paone
Managing Director, Crown Posture
Marketing Manager, Crown
The Investment

This Is a Senior Leadership Engagement. Priced Accordingly.

Fractional Sales Leadership is not a cheap fix. It’s a considered investment in the leadership infrastructure your revenue depends on.

Most businesses compare the cost of Fractional Sales Leadership against the cost of a full-time VP of Sales hire – salary, superannuation, equity, recruitment fees, and the 6–12 month runway before they’re effective.

Fractional Sales Leadership delivers senior leadership capability faster, at a fraction of that cost, and with none of the hiring risk.

Pricing is scoped to your business. Engagements are structured around your size, complexity, and goals – not a fixed package. The Revenue Risk Review conversation will clarify scope and investment before any commitment.

What's Included in HIRING BERNADETTE AS YOUR FRACTIONAL SALES LEADER

Initial Revenue Risk Diagnostic

Revenue Architecture Design

Weekly embedded leadership sessions

Pipeline reviews and deal coaching

Team coaching across all 5 capabilities including ride-alongs

Sales Leader of Influence™ full system

Forecast accountability framework

A sync support between sessions

Ready to Talk?

Your Revenue Deserves a Real Sales Leader in the Room.

No pitch. No pressure. A straightforward conversation about where your revenue is leaking and whether FSL is the right answer for your business.