Maria is a Partner in McKinsey's Marketing & Sales Practice, based out of the Miami area office. She works with B2B and consumer companies in the United States, Latin America, and Europe to build advanced sales capabilities to drive above market growth. Over the past ten years, she has also focused on research regarding: sales growth, market strategy, sales capability building, channel excellence, advanced analytics in sales, and commercial transformation. Maria is a co-author of Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World's Sales Leaders (2nd Edition available April 2016) which distills the insights from interviews with prominent global sales leaders and hundreds of McKinsey engagements into a set of stories and practical ideas that drive above-market growth. She is also the author of multiple articles on sales management for business magazines including Harvard Business Review, European Business Review, and McKinsey Quarterly.