This episode of Revenue Optimization Radio sees Sean Broderick continue hosting duties. Sean is the Marketing Lead for Upland Software in the Revenue Optimization Business Unit. To celebrate International Women’s Day, Sean welcomes the top-performing salesperson in Upland Altify, Wendy Higley. Upland Altify research shows that win rates increase by 10% and sales cycle times are reduced by 7% when the salesperson is female. Wendy Higley is living proof of why those statistics ring true. She talks about the key 3 reasons why women make better salespeople, how to attract more women into the sales professions and her advice to aspiring female sales leaders. About Sean's guest: Wendy Higley is a Global Account Director at Upland Altify where she is passionate about helping global enterprise companies transform and optimize revenue. Wendy has 15 years of sales experience of which 10 has been in enterprise software. Wendy joined Altify (recently acquired by Upland Software) in 2017.  For the past 2 years, Wendy has achieved over 250% and 179% quota attainment and has been the company’s top performer. Wendy credits her success to being part of an amazing revenue team and leaning into the same software and methodology that she sells to her customers.    ___________________________________________     Revenue Optimization Radio is hosted by Sean Broderick of Upland Altify which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Upland Altify is the sponsor of Revenue Optimization Radio.