Elevating Leaders and Teams

At Batiste, we empower leaders, align teams and facilitate organizational change.
How we can help
NICE TO MEET YOU

Welcome to Batiste

Hi! I’m Jeanette, the lead facilitator, coach, and strategist at Batiste Leadership. I specialize in guiding leaders and teams through meaningful transformation by fostering trust, collaboration, and alignment. My approach combines strategic thinking with practical leadership tools, helping individuals and organizations unlock their potential. As a coach and facilitator, I’m passionate about supporting teams as they evolve, solve complex challenges, and achieve lasting success.

At Batiste, we are humble, authentic and sincere. We listen to you to fully understand your aspirations and vision for your leadership, team and organization. From there, we work in partnership with you to align and focus your team to achieve your vision for success.

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Leadership is a journey for which there’s no summit.

About our work
We have worked with leaders and teams across industries, including retail, manufacturing, accounting, trade show, government and non-profits.
SERVICES

How can we help you.

We help leaders set and implement strategy, reinvigorate and evolve culture, navigate succession, and manage complex change. Across all our programs and interventions, we empower teams with new ways of working and being to elevate their performance and achieve greater results.

We have had the opportunity to work with incredible leaders from dynamic organizations such as Wegmans Food Markets, The Bonadio Group, Germanow Simon Companies, MSM, and Food Bank for New York City.

In collaboration with Russell Reynolds Associates (formally Nvolv Partners), we’ve also helped develop and deliver large scale strategy and team building programs for large companies such as Moet Hennessy, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Paychex and WSS Foot Locker. We leverage our combined experiences and expertise to support you along your journey.

OUR OFFERINGS

Team
and Culture
Building

  • Enhance team strengths and collaboration
  • Improve communication and decision-making
  • Aligns goals and drives success
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Leadership Development and Coaching

  • Builds self-awareness and critical leadership abilities
  • Customized for organizational impact
  • Leaders learn to motivate and align teams
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Strategic
Change

  • Engages teams in strategy
  • Prepares for change and challenges
  • Supports effective implementation
  • Strengthen strategic thinking
  • Builds ownership of the strategy while collaboratively engaging the organization
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THE WAY WE WORK

A collaborative process

1. Discovery

We start by understanding the problem. We take the time to get to truly know your organization. By learning your team’s unique strengths and challenges, we tailor a program that’s specific to your goals.

2. Co-Creation

Transformation is a collaborative process. We leverage our expertise to guide you in the right direction. At the end, you ultimately lead your team to success.

3. Action

We collaboratively work with your team as a whole because that’s the only way to create change that endures. So, inclusivity is at the core of our process.

TESTIMONIALS

What clients say

We contracted with the Batiste Leadership to guide us through our Strategic Plan. John & Jeanette provided outstanding guidance as we navigated the planning process, demonstrating exceptional expertise and fostering a collaborative environment that helped us achieve clarity and strategic alignment. Their insights and leadership have been invaluable to our organization's progress.  As a new CEO, I've also benefited greatly from their leadership coaching, which has been a game changer.  Their coaching has empowered me with the confidence and insight needed to excel as a CEO.

Mark Bordeau
Food Bank of the Southern Tier

I engaged with Batiste Leadership to help us empower our finance managers and build a stronger team. We learned how to align and encourage decision making at the appropriate level and were given practical tools that we were able to apply immediately.

Laurie Ganon, CFO
United Way of Greater Rochester​

We worked with Batiste Leadership for over the past three years to train and develop multiple levels of leaders in the firm and assist us in bringing to life our special culture. We have seen dramatic improvements in our leaders’ abilities to align and empower teams, which directly impacts business outcomes.

Bruce Zicari, CEO
The Bonadio Group

We partnered with Batiste Leadership to assist us in developing a culture of decentralization and empowerment. As a result of their work, our senior leadership team and managers are all aligned around our shared values and company goals. We are impressed with all we have accomplished and appreciate the value that Batiste Leadership brings to the company. They truly listen to us and offer a unique, authentic approach.

Colin Sheridan, President
Germanow-Simon Corporation

We are working with Batiste Leadership to intentionally define and bring to life our culture of empowerment and initiative.  The process is completely tailored to our company and totally engaging. The momentum we are achieving is impressive.

Brett Lemke, Vice President
RM Landscape

about us

Our team

In addition to all our professional qualifications and experiences, we are down-to-earth, humble people who will intently listen and seek and incorporate feedback.

Meet our team
Jeanette Batiste-Harrison
Co-Founder and Principal
John Batiste
Co-Founder and Advisor
Lisa Horn
Consultant
Katelyn Donald
Consultant
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Your Journey
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Book your free conversation to see how we might help you. If you have questions or want to explore how we might work together, please reach out. Don’t hesitate to get in touch - our conversation is free and we’re excited to connect.

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