Theme: “Emotional Barriers in Supplier Relationships: Fixing the DEAL problem"
How do you re-write the contract playbook to improve supplier relationships?
This conclave will discuss challenging the conventional view that contracts are primarily transactional and static. Psychodynamic emotional factors such as unconscious biases and fears create problems in deals that often go unrecognized.
Resolving interpersonal dynamics that hinder trust are key to generating higher value from strategic supplier relationships.
Our speaker, Ms. Evelyn MacLean, Expert Partner, Bain, is a senior supply chain executive, who has been supporting public and privately held oil & gas companies grow their businesses worldwide through organic and M&A activity for over 30 years.
She has a passion for re-writing the contract onboarding playbook to improve strategic supplier relationships. A lifetime student of working on self, and psychology studies, she believes the ‘invisible hand’ to mutually beneficial results and value creation, rests in our behaviors. Soft issues are the hardest in leadership.
Why Attend
If you want to be on the leading edge of supply chain, then join leaders who will discuss vigorously and openly in the Houston Strategy Forum’s unique format. We facilitate an intimate, safe discussion. We follow Chatham House Rules and advise all participants to keep the discussions confidential.
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About Conclaves
Conclaves are intimate roundtable discussions where every participant contributes in their preferred manner. We follow Chatham House Rules so that the conclaves are conducted in a safe zone.
Ms. Evelyn MacLean
Expert Partner
Bain & Company
Evelyn MacLean, a senior supply chain executive, has been supporting public and privately held oil & gas companies grow their businesses worldwide through organic and M&A activity for over 30 years. Evelyn’s career reflects a demonstrated track record in leading successful large-scale supply chain and business transformation initiatives, managing multibillion-dollar global spend and multimillion-dollar budgets, redesigning operating models to align with market conditions; and realizing significant value through adoption of digital and lean methodologies. She brings deep corporate governance experience through her roles as Chairperson of Global Contracting Governance boards and presentations to public boards.
Evelyn currently holds the position of Expert Partner with Bain & Company and sits on the board of Bayou Companies, an Altamont Capital Partners portfolio company. In 2023, she completed a three-year assignment with IOGP (International Association of Oil and Gas Producers), where she led a board commissioned taskforce on the Energy Workforce of the Future, leading to a published study report.
Prior to this, Evelyn was Head of Global Supply Chain and Chief Procurement Officer at Hess Corporation, a global independent energy company with $6.5B revenues (2019) and ~2000 employees. Evelyn managed stability of all contracting and procurement activity through the most acute downturn in energy industry history. Third party average spend per year was ~$6B. Evelyn led the implementation of a new supply chain operating model to align with the new business environment requiring a change in emphasis on skills requirements. She led the creation and value delivery of strategic category management as a business value differentiator, launched a strategic supplier relationship program and orchestrated the development of a digital supply chain designed to enhance value delivery through a connected buyer-seller ecosystem.
For 8 years, Evelyn was Vice President of Procurement & Supply Chain Management for BP’s Global Wells Organization (GWO) from 2007 to 2015. She was responsible for GWO’s annual ~$8B third party spend, led a strategic restructuring that transformed supply chain operations, which delivered $800M in value in year one; served as Secretary of GWO’s Contracting Governance Board, and designed a functional operating model to support safe and reliable operations following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill accident.
Evelyn started her career at Brown and Root (now KBR) and spent 18 years as a leader with Halliburton where global highlights included two M&A transactions including Dresser Industries ($7.7B stock-swap), business integration and a global deployment of SAP. She has provided professional services to public and privately held companies in the oilfield service, executive search, and energy segments.
Evelyn is a former Corporate Board Member of Hess Denmark ApS, a legal entity that was fully owned by a Hess Corporation subsidiary with an estimated $138M 2019 net revenues, ~100 employees in Denmark. She is a member of INSEAD and MIT Alumni, and holds memberships with SPE, International Coaching Federation, and the Institute of Collaborative Working, Evelyn was recognized as an Influential Woman of Energy in 2012 by Sir Andrew Gould, former Schlumberger Chairman & CEO. Evelyn is a sought-after public speaker on procurement and supply chain, humanizing leadership, and futureproofing business.
Evelyn, a life-long learner, holds a master’s degree from INSEAD in Consulting and Coaching for Change, and a bachelor’s degree in management from Bellevue University, and has studied Law at Aberdeen University and Psychology at Inverness Technical College. In recent years, Evelyn became a Certified Business and Personal Coach, gained an Executive Certificate in Management & Leadership from MIT Sloan, and completed training in Organizational Transactional Analysis with The Berne Institute. She recently embarked on doctoral studies through the University of Houston.
About Conclaves
Conclaves are intimate roundtable discussions where every participant contributes in their preferred manner. We follow Chatham House Rules so that the conclaves are conducted in a safe zone.