Dr. Christina M. Bates is a seasoned and respected management consultant and advisor with more than 25 years of diverse and deep experience supporting large and mid-sized government and corporate clients. Dr. Bates’s primary areas of focus are strategic planning, organizational design and development, operational excellence, strategic communications, and legal risk management. She is a highly adept critical thinker and can rapidly identify, decompose, and solve problems that result in mutually beneficial outcomes.
She began her career as Associate Counsel and Assistant Vice President for FleetBoston Financial Corporation (n/k/a Bank of America) in the Capital Markets/Treasury Division conducting high caliber risk assessment and management for financial derivatives and related high-value/high-risk contracts. She then transitioned to management consulting where she has excelled and built a robust business providing exceptional advisory and direct support services in the military acquisition, banking/financial services, healthcare, and aerospace sectors. Dr. Bates also led the operational excellence office of a large healthcare informatics firm.
She holds a PhD in Communication with an emphasis on Organizational Communication and Behavior from Arizona State University (Hugh Downs School of Human Communication), and her research has been published in trade and scholarly publications and has received numerous awards. Dr. Bates also holds a BA, cum laude, from Boston College, a JD from Boston University, and an MS, with distinction, from Boston University. She is recognized as a trusted advisor to senior executives and a strong, effective leader of change and continuous improvement at all levels of an organization.
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