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Face Your Fears and Make Your Workplace Better

Beating the Odds: Rethinking CEO Succession Video Series

When being boring happens to good leaders

Employees Hating Hybrid?  5 Strategies for Senior Leaders to Overcome Resistance

Why Speed is Overrated to Lead a Post-acquisition Culture Transformation

Is Your Board Managing the Newest Continuity Risk?

Why I am Toasting Executive Coaches this Season

What Sales Can Teach All Leaders on How to Set a Vision to Inspire

3 Common Communication Mistakes Leaders Make with the C-Suite

Webinar: Breaking the Old Paradigm on Teams

Breaking the Old Paradigm on Teams: The New Standard is "Teaming"

Disruption in C-Suite Succession: What’s Changing and How to Succeed Now

Mind the Gap: Fully Stepping into Your C-Suite Role

3 Signs You’re in a Leadership Rut

The Upside of Positive Team Disharmony

Virtual is the Great Equalizer: How to Leverage this Collaborative Powerhouse

Executive Presence: More Important than Ever

The Authenticity Trap: For Executives, Keeping It Real Can Be Really Hard to Do

The Future of Work at Dow Means Nobody Is Left Behind

Seize Control: Why “No” is the Key Leadership Tool You Need

6 Lessons on Building a Great Team from an Inspiring Leader

3 Pieces of Advice from a Board Member to the CEO

Displaying Grace Under Pressure: 5 Strategies to Keep Your Cool

When the CEO Says 'Yes' and Your Peers Say 'Meh':  Getting Results in the Matrix

Promotion Pitfalls: Navigating the Shift from Comrade to Commander

Don’t Be the Leader Who Works Hard on the Wrong Things

Facing Your Blind Spots: How Solving the Wrong Problem Just Became A Bigger Problem

Save Yourself and Your Team: Have Fewer, Better Meetings

Why Your Connections Are Your Secret Weapon

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Why Setting Boundaries is the New Leadership Imperative

7 Workplace Priorities for CEOs and Their Leaders in 2021

Announcement: Bates Merger with BTS

Choosing the Next CEO: Why Start Now?

A Vat of Lemonade: How to Turn 2020’s Curveballs into a Winning Strategy

The Fastest Way to Release Bottlenecks: The 4 Keys to Intentional Decision Making

To Build Credibility with a CEO, Act Like a Peer

What Leaders Need to Do More of Now, More Than Ever

How CEOs Can Help Their Leaders Right Now

How to Step Up Your Selling Game in a Virtual Environment

5 Things to Do Now to Have Better Sales Conversations

Displaying Grace Under Pressure

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret but Obvious Behaviors of the Most Effective Teams

The Case for Transforming Your Sales Culture Now

10 Strategies to Lead your Team to Strong Year End Performance

5 Bold Reasons to Hire a Coach Now: Counterintuitive Advice in Uncertain Times

Is Leading Virtually Really New and Different? 5 Lessons from the “Way-Back Machine”

How to Make Difficult People Easier, Without Changing Them at All

Do You Want to Increase Collaboration? How to Break Down Team Silos Now

Summer Reading for Leaders

Advice From a Television News Anchor: How to “Leap Through the Camera” with Virtual Presence

3 Ways Companies Can Continue to Advance and Progress in Spite of Turbulence

Webinar: Thriving in the Long Game of Pandemic

Who’s Zoomin’ Who? The Art of Balancing Video Meetings for the Long Haul

On Video, Amp Up Your Presence with Your FIELD of Vision

Embracing Now to Create the Environment for Creativity and Innovation

Three Mistakes Leaders Are Making During the COVID Crisis

Influence by Design

New Exercise Habits to Build Now to Help You Lead Later

Demonstrating Executive Presence During the COVID-19 Crisis

5 Ways to Streamline Decisions in a Time of Crisis

Self-Care in Challenging Times: The New Non-Negotiable for Senior Leaders

What is Crisis Leadership? The Art of Balancing Realism with Unfettered Confidence

Webinar: Built to Pivot

5 Best Practices to Lead Virtually in Crisis and Beyond

Webinar: How Smart Leaders Can Help their Teams Navigate the COVID-19 Crisis

When Leaders Should Pivot to Team Decision Making in Times of Crisis

Can You Be Too Authentic?

Resilience: The Leadership Antidote for Our Current Crisis

5 Biggest Failures of Leaders in a Crisis

Why Video is Worth the Trouble

13 Ways to Make Your “Virtual Workplace” More like the Real Thing

The Anatomy of a Message

How Smart Executives Can Lead Their Teams through the Global COVID-19 Crisis

Executive Briefing: Leadership Secrets of High Growth Companies

Drop Those Bad Leadership Habits: Unlocking the Key to EI

How to Make the Leap from Inclusion to Belonging

Special Report: The Next Generation Team

Five Fresh Ideas to Step Up Your Executive Wardrobe in the New Decade

Case Study: Creating Value with the Bates ExPI for Your Clients

Case Study: Leveraging ExPI™ Certification In-House

Advice for Senior Leaders Who Want to Advance:  Stop Hiding, Stop Drifting

How Leaders Can Make Daunting Goals Realistic, Exciting, and Achievable

The Surprising Advantages of Practicing “Heads Up Leadership”

How to Make Conflict Constructive

If You’re Leading an Underperforming Team, Here’s What You May Be Overlooking

CEO Watch: Top 7 Trends to Track for 2020

CEO Advisory: Words of Wisdom from Growth Leaders

The One-Minute Speech

Case Study: Leadership Succession to Secure the Company's Future

The Power of a Story

You Can't Go At It Alone: How a Great Team Can Be the Antidote to Loneliness

C-Level Execs: Walk Away from the Keyboard

Overcoming In and Out Groups in Teams

The New Business Mandate: Leadership Analytics that Drive the Strategy Forward

Building the Right Boat: How Leadership Teams Can Better Navigate the Tides

Master Your Demons: Uncovering Leadership Blind Spots

Epic Fail:  The Surprising Reasons Why Coaching Doesn’t Work

Belonging: The Path to Speaking Up When You See Bias

The Long and Short of It: Build Your Organization One Quarter at a Time

Step Back to Leap Forward: Why Leaders Need to Pause Often to Take Stock

CoachX: Suzanne Bates on Coaching Executive Presence

Case Study: Advising a Top CEO Candidate on Closing the Gap to Step into the Role

Case Study: Aligning the Executive Team to Deliver on Growth and Competitive Position

The Power and Impact of Executive Presence

Dressing From The Waist Up:  Four Easy Ways to Master Executive Presence On Video Calls

Coaching Hacks: “So, What’s New in Your Practice?” How to Be a Top Echelon Coach in a Crowded Field

Case Study: Creating a Successful Skip-level Business C-Suite Transition

Being Authentic: Does Your LinkedIn Profile Reflect Who You Really Are?

Coaching Executives to Lead Their Companies to Growth

Get Your Senior Executives to Agree So You Can Get Work Done

The Habits of CEO Success: Are you Solving the Very Problems Your Team Should be Solving?

Incredibly Unpopular Advice for CEOs and Executive Teams Leading Change:  Slow Down

Case Study: Maximizing Success for Post-Merger Leadership Team

Special Report: The Future of HR Analytics

Webinar: Why Smart Data Isn't on the Business Dashboard

The Science of Influence: The Three Dimensions of Executive Presence

Case Study: Preparing an Aspiring CFO to Ascend to the Role

The Secret Nobody Tells Experienced Leaders About Meeting Big Goals

Do You Bring Light or Heat? 3 Steps to Ensuring You Display Grace Under Pressure

CEO Communication: What to Say, When You Really Can’t Say

Case Study: Elevating C-Suite Relationship Selling

Are you the CEO? Calm down.

Case Study: Increasing Team Performance to Accelerate Business Model Transformation

Get to the Truth from Your Team in 5 Simple Steps

Nailing the C-Suite Conversation: How to Improve Your Batting Average

Put on the Brakes: Tips for Keeping Your Cool in a Crisis

Webinar: Diversity and Inclusion are Table Stakes

Case Study: Building a Winning Profile for Executive Talent

Helpfully Wrong: How Inaccurate Criticism Can Improve Your Thinking

Why Today's Problems Need Both/ And Thinking

What’s the Right Way to Get the Most Value from Your Executive Advisor?

7 Strategies for Becoming CEO: How to Position Yourself for the Top Job

What to Do as Number One, and Number Two: Navigating the Most Important Business Relationship of Your Life

Embrace Failure to Let Your Team Grow

Your Leadership Roadmap

Leading with Both Sides of Your Brain: Why Strategic Thinking is No Longer Enough

How to Respond to Surprising Negative Feedback:  What To Do When Your Boss Rates You Lower Than Everyone Else

Webinar: How Strong is Your Team?

Rethinking Leadership: Understanding the "Genius" of Your Team

Special Report: Transformational Change

The Danger of Saying Yes: How Doing It All Minimizes Your Leadership

9 Differentiating Behaviors of High Growth Leaders

Case Study: Transforming the Team to Lead Transformation

Making Business Casual Work for You and Your Company

Busyness is Laziness:  The Drawbacks of a Crazy Calendar

Leadership Readiness: What Nobody's Told You About Becoming CEO

How to Deal with Difficult People in Meetings

Leadership Trends: The NEW Sales Professional in the C-Suite

What CEOs Wished They Knew

Special Report: Taking Your Team from Good to Great

The High Price of Being a Low Energy Leader

The Problem Is We Don’t Agree There’s a Problem:  Why You’re Struggling to Influence

If You Want Growth, Stretch More and Learn

Executive Stamina:  How Leaders Stay Energized in an Always-On World

The 4 Big Mistakes in Working with Teams

How to Unlock Your Team’s Resilience in the Face of Overwhelming Change

How to Set Free the Genius of Your Team

Special Report: A New Era for EOS

Before You Say No: Leadership Trumps Functional Expertise to Deliver Change

Closing the Gender Gap: Insights Gleaned About the Future of the Workplace

The One Thing Senior Leaders Must Do to Have a Great Second Half of 2018

Why Leaders Should Be Thinking Ahead About AI

Leadership Communication Lessons in the Year of the World Cup

Webinar: Leadership Secrets of High Growth Companies

“Up Until Now!”: How to Deal With “I Can’t”

Restraint: It Helped to Lack it...Until You Got Promoted

How Executive Presence Gaps Put Your Business Goals at Risk

Webinar: The Future of the Workplace

Introducing the Bates LTPI™: Defining What Makes a Team “High Performing” Today

The Thank You Trap: The Business Cost of Being Too Deferential

How to Make a Big Impact at Your Next Quarterly Meeting

3 Financial Services Leadership Hacks: Nailing the Trust Challenge

It’s Time to Upset the Apple Cart:  Why Companies Need Leaders Who Will Go There

How to Deal with Difficult People in Meetings

Special Report: Leadership Secrets of High Growth Companies

Case Study - Turning Transactional Vendors into Strategic Partners

The Danger of “One-Size-Fits-All” for Advancing Women Leaders

Command the Room: Speak Like a CEO

The Golden Globes: A Lesson in Style & Influence

4 Proven Ways to Develop and Communicate Your Vision

How Leaders Can Create New Year’s Resolutions That Will Last Through 2018

Why Executives Sabotage Their Own Innovation Initiatives

Developing Diverse Leaders: It’s on All of Us

Know Better: Jumpstarting the Impact of Your Executive Presence

Leading Through Change?  Try Predictability

5 Tips for Driving Innovation in 2018

Is Your Pushing Forward Holding Your Company Back?

How Bad Companies Get Better: The Formula for Brand Recovery

Bridge the Gap from Strategy to Execution

Leading Innovative Teams: It’s Not What You Think

Leading Through Reorganization: Mind the Culture Gap

The Missing Link for Women and Influence? It’s Not You, It’s the Company!

Do You Want to be Loved or Trusted?

What’s Wrong with Innovation Leadership? Not Thinking INSIDE the Box

Leading Through Turbulence? 5 Tips that Work

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Expect the Unexpected

Special Report: A Brief Overview of the Bates Model of Executive Presence

Is Preparing for Losers?  Why Preparation is The Dirty Little Secret Inside Organizations

Special Report: The Power of Executive Presence

Special Report: We Have a Problem, and That's a Good Thing!