Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course

by Suzanne Bates

Product Description A step-by-step guide to becoming the leader you’ve always wanted to be. In this 100+ page workbook and double-disc audio set, you’ll discover how to create your own customized plan for becoming a powerful, confident speaker and presenter. If Speak Like a CEO (McGraw Hill 2005) helped you understand the principles of good speaking, this workbook and CD set will help you sit down and begin putting together a portfolio of great speeches and presentations! In this Home Study Course, Suzanne Bates provides many of the tools and worksheets that her clients use every day to put together interesting, memorable presentations. And when you listen to the CDs you’ll discover that you can follow along in the workbook in an easy-to-follow format so that each day, each week and each month, you are building valuable new skills! About the Author Suzanne Bates is a former award-winning television news anchor and reporter who helps business executives and professionals tune their voices of leadership. She is the author of Speak Like a CEO: Secrets For Commanding Attention and Getting Results (McGraw Hill 2005). Suzanne’s firm, Bates Communications, provides communications strategies, workshops, training, facilitation and executive coaching in communication skills. For 20 years, Suzanne was an acclaimed interviewer and top-rated news anchor 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. As President and CEO of Bates Communications, Inc., Suzanne leads a firm whose mission is to help clients win business and project their unique, authentic leadership style through better communication skills. The firm specializes in coaching for public speaking, business presentations, media interviews, networking, job interviews, writing and conversation. The company has published two nationwide surveys, “Credibility, a New Era in Business” in 2002, and “How Does Your Boss Communicate?” in 2004.