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Suzanne Bates is an author, speaker, former award-winning television news anchor, and CEO of Bates Communications, Inc. Her firm helps leaders get business results through powerful communication with their important audiences.
Clients include Dow Chemical, Fidelity, Cisco Systems, Mellon/Bank of NY, John Hancock, Cabot Corp., EMC, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The North Face, and Stop and Shop.
Suzanne is author of Speak like a CEO: Secrets to Commanding Attention and Getting Results (McGraw Hill 2005), which became a best selling business book on amazon.com in 2005. The book has also been published in Chinese, Russian and Indonesian. McGraw Hill is also publishing her next book, Motivate like a CEO, 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 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 is currently on the board of the New England Chapter of the National Speakers Association, is a member of the Women’s Presidents Organization, and is past president of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus.
Suzanne earned a B.S. in Radio-TV Journalism from the University of Illinois and lives in Wellesley, Mass.
Clients include Dow Chemical, Fidelity, Cisco Systems, Mellon/Bank of NY, John Hancock, Cabot Corp., EMC, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The North Face, and Stop and Shop.
Suzanne is author of Speak like a CEO: Secrets to Commanding Attention and Getting Results (McGraw Hill 2005), which became a best selling business book on amazon.com in 2005. The book has also been published in Chinese, Russian and Indonesian. McGraw Hill is also publishing her next book, Motivate like a CEO, 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 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 is currently on the board of the New England Chapter of the National Speakers Association, is a member of the Women’s Presidents Organization, and is past president of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus.
Suzanne earned a B.S. in Radio-TV Journalism from the University of Illinois and lives in Wellesley, Mass.