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 helps leaders get business results through powerful communication with their important audiences. Clients include Dow Chemical, Fidelity, Merck, Mellon/Bank of NY, Raytheon, Bauer, EMC, John Hancock, Textron, The North
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. Her second book, Motivate like a CEO: Communicate Your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to Act!, was published January 2009, also with McGraw Hill. The book has received accolades from highly regarded business authors such as Ken Blanchard (The One Minute Manager), Marshall Goldsmith (What Got You Here Won't Get You There), and Charles H. Green (The Trusted Advisor).
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. Her firm 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 is regularly quoted and has appeared in hundreds of publications including the New York Times, New York Post, Investors Business Daily, The Boston Globe, and The Boston Business Journal.
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, 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.
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 earned a B.S. in Radio-TV Journalism from the University of Illinois and currently lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.
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