About O2 Coaching, LLC
Richard Battista, MBA, CPC
Richard Battista, MBA, CPC
With over 32 years of experience in the business world, I have dedicated my life to helping others become leaders in both their careers and personal lives. Coaching is not just a job to me, it’s a personal passion. As a certified professional coach, I deliver high-impact, results-oriented coaching to individuals and teams, including executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals in business and the US military.
My specialties include compassionate leadership, participatory management, positive feedback, emotional and social intelligence, and group dynamics. By helping you make choices that lead to improvements in your professional life, I can clear away the clutter and energy drains that hold you back from being your best self both personally and professionally.
I am committed to helping every committed client achieve results that far surpass their expectations. Having personally demonstrated my ability to create success in my own life, I find nothing more rewarding than unlocking the potential of others and helping them achieve their own extraordinary lives. Let me help you unleash your own greatness.
Qualifications & Experience
A good coach requires extensive professional training, a great deal of life experience, and continuous self improvement through ongoing self reflection. My areas of expertise revolve around interpersonal skills, personal and professional development:
- Co-Author: The Power of Life Coaching, Volume 4.
- Proven leadership capabilities.
- Strategic focus to develop and implement enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Systems development and deployment.
- Considerable management skills to successfully perform the planning, directing, reporting
- and administration at the corporate level.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
What Is Business Coaching?
Business coaching is a professional service that helps individuals or groups within a business to improve their skills, knowledge, and performance in order to achieve their goals. It involves providing support, feedback, and advice to help clients identify and address challenges or obstacles they face in the workplace.
Business coaches work with clients to develop personalized strategies and action plans that enable them to reach their full potential and achieve their desired outcomes. While coaches don’t necessarily need to have expertise in the specific field or industry, they bring a unique perspective and set of skills to help clients optimize their performance and achieve success.
The analogy of a coach in sports is often used to highlight how business coaching involves working closely with clients to help them refine their skills and achieve peak performance in their chosen area.
Expert Advisor – Business Strategy, Finance & Marketing
Santander Bank- Small Business Program
Advise early-stage food entrepreneurs as part of Santander Banks Cultivate Small Business program. Lead small-group sessions providing deep dives into business strategy, finance, and marketing. Deliver individualized recommendations and actionable insights to help participants strengthen their business models, improve financial planning, and enhance marketing effectiveness.
What Makes a Good Coach?
The qualities of a good coach include professional training, life experience, and ongoing self-reflection. Richard E. Battista has extensive qualifications, including a BS in finance, BS in management-social sciences, an MBA, and is a certified professional coach (CPC).
Richard is also a decorated combat veteran, a professional chef/pastry chef, and have held various leadership roles in the culinary industry, education, and management. Additionally, he’s have been active in community service and continuously engage in professional development to improve his coaching skills.
Ken Demma, MBA
Ken Demma has been a business innovator and recognized expert for over 25 years, improving and transforming businesses in adopting growth-based strategies while improving the effectiveness of Customer interactions and value. He has held executive roles at AWS, SAP, American Express, Fidelity Investments, US West, Affinity Group, and client-focused roles in various specialized consulting firms and agencies, working with businesses of all sizes and individuals of varied backgrounds and needs.
As adjunct faculty at Babson College, Ken has worked with entrepreneurs, small businesses, government entities and other corporate learners on matters of transformation, Customer focus, Marketing and leveraging data and analytics. He has taught hundreds of students and mentored dozens of leaders. Babson College is recognized as the #1 school for entrepreneurship 26 years running and named the #2 college in the country.
Ken’s range of experience is unique in that it is both broad and deep: successfully implementing data-driven marketing strategies at American Express; creating a unique (and industry award-winning) Customer Experience program at SAP; working with household brand names in uncovering actual Customer needs through extensive ethnographic research and Customer strategies; multi-market launch of innovative loyalty products; leading all marketing, retention and loyalty activities within an $180M subscription business; and working with small companies such as a family-owned machine parts business in Sicily. A range of situations, challenges and experiences that inform his ability “to meet customers where they are”.
Ken is described by colleagues and clients as a collaborator, empathetic leader, storyteller, coach, advisor, and innovator. He holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, a BA in Economics from New York University, a certificate in Leadership in Professional Services Firms from Harvard Business School and a certificate in Direct Marketing from NYU.
He lives in New York City and will happily engage in discussions and debates on music, hockey and Marketing.
O2 Coaching Programs
One-on-One Coaching Programs
This program is divided into eight sessions spread for five months. The coach and the coachees sit down and jointly set out the objectives, agree on the timelines and schedules for the various activities. They also agree and share the expectations of each part. However, the coachee’s role is to set the agenda for the coaching sessions. The first four sessions are held before the participants can take two midterm exams/tests to review their skills and understanding, while the last four are held before the final day of review.
Team Coaching or Systemic Coaching
Like One-on-One Coaching, systemic coaching comprises eight sessions spread for five months. Sessions are held for teams with a limited number of 5 people selected by the organization sponsoring their learning. The coach, coaches, and the organization set the program’s objectives. Meanwhile, the teams jointly undertake the mid-term and end-term reviews. Once everything is completed, the coach prepares a report for the sponsoring organization with the action plans, recommendations for monitoring and evaluation, and future development.
Coaching Senior Executives
As an experienced executive coach, I specialize in coaching senior leaders, using the latest coaching techniques and maintaining complete confidentiality. I also incorporate various life coaching tools and techniques to enhance learning and understanding, helping my clients to identify their strengths and areas of growth and providing guidance to achieve their goals.
- Seasoned executive coach and a graduate of the International Coaching Federation (ICF)- a credited program.
- I offer complete confidentiality
- Use additional, My Life Coaching content to reinforce learning and enhance understanding.
Why Entrepreneurs Need Coaching
Entrepreneurs are risk-takers in the business environment. They mostly focus on
identifying an existing problem in the society, community, or environment and then
concentrate on finding solutions to help resolve the problem. Entrepreneurship coaching
exists to help entrepreneurs find their vision and align them to their purpose and core
values. It, in a way, helps unlock entrepreneurs’ hidden and unexplored capabilities and
assists them in growing their businesses even in the dynamic and fast-changing business
environment.
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