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She coleads McKinsey鈥檚 work on insurance commercial analytics and sales effectiveness, as well as our dental client-service community.</p> <p>Examples of her recent client work include the following:</p> <ul> <li>setting up the core sales operations engine for a multistate carrier selling through a broker channel, including talent acquisition, retention and training, sales support, proposal delivery, pipeline management, broker strategy, and other sales-enablement tools</li> <li>deploying frontline diagnostics and designing consultative capability building training, sales coaching training, and supporting tools for a regionally concentrated insurer</li> <li>leading buyer and target leadership across dental, life, and disability business lines and developing a coordinated go-to-market strategy and path forward on integration as part of a large merger-management program</li> <li>developing a strategy for standing up portfolio-management capabilities and integrating them into annual planning processes for a diversified health insurer</li> </ul> <p>Prior to joining McKinsey in New York, Elena was based in the Singapore office where she was part of the Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice and served clients on issues such as frontline transformations, economic development, and strategy.</p> </div><div class="Profile_mck-c-profile__area-a__YIGXu container-placeholder mdc-u-grid mdc-u-grid-gutter-lg"></div></div><div class="Profile_mck-c-profile__sidebar-wrapper__E52KM"><div class="container-sidebar mdc-u-grid mdc-u-grid-gutter-xxl"><button data-component="mdc-c-button" aria-label="" type="button" id="button_id" class="mdc-c-button___U4iY2_2734c4f mdc-c-button--primary___Ed-lT_2734c4f mdc-c-button--size-large___jwpUy_2734c4f" data-layer-event-prefix="Exit Link" data-layer-action="click" data-layer-category="social" data-layer-subcategory="partner" data-layer-subcategory2="email" data-layer-text="Share this profile on email"><span data-component="mdc-c-icon" 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