Suzanne Bates
President, CEO Bates Communications, Inc.
Suzanne Bates is an executive coach, author, speaker, entrepreneur and former award-winning television news anchor. As President and CEO of Bates Communications, she leads a firm that shows leaders how to get business results through better communication. Her firm's clients are top leaders in business, from Fortune 500 to small and midsize companies and professional services firms.
Suzanne is author of Speak like a CEO: Secrets to Commanding Attention and Getting Results (McGraw Hill 2005), which became a best seller on amazon.com in 2005. The book has also been published in Chinese, Russian and Indonesian. Suzanne has also produced a six-CD set, the Speak Like a CEO Toolkit, and the Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course. Her 2nd book, Motivate like a CEO: Communicate Your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to Act!, is set to be released by McGraw Hill in January 2009.
For 20 years, Suzanne was an acclaimed on-air personality with major market television stations WBZ-TV Boston, WCAU-TV Philadelphia and WFLA-TV Tampa-St. Petersburg. She won an AP News Award and was nominated for a Columbia DuPont Award, and, over her career, interviewed thousands of political leaders, CEOs, experts, authors and celebrities.
Suzanne's work has helped thousands of leaders develop strong messages and deliver them in a powerful, effective way. She works with clients on every aspect of communication from the development of vision and strategy, to the preparation and delivery of outstanding speeches, presentations, and media interviews.
As a nationally recognized expert in business communications and leadership, Suzanne has been quoted in the New York Times, New York Post, Fortune, Investors Business Daily, The Boston Globe, and hundreds of other newspapers, magazines and publications.
Suzanne has held board and leadership positions in several organizations. She is currently on the board of the New England Chapter of the National Speakers Association, is on the board of The Women's Congress, is a member of the Women's Presidents Organization, is past president of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, and has been a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of The Boston Club.
Earning a B.S. in Radio-TV Journalism from the University of Illinois, Suzanne went on not only to have a career in media and communications, but also to teach seminars and workshops at Harvard Business School's Executive Education Program and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Boston University, Babson College, Bentley College, and The Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
Suzanne is an active member of her community, frequently emceeing events for non-profit organizations. She is a 2002 winner of the Woman of Achievement award from the Boston Business and Professional Women's Association, 2003 winner as a Woman of Distinction from the MS Society of New England and a 2006 winner of The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Champion Award. She has been named a top-ten coach by Women's Business Journal.
Suzanne lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.