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Sheryl Y. Battles is currently Vice President, Communications and Diversity Strategy for Pitney Bowes Inc.
Sheryl is a seasoned professional that communicates the company’s strategies and developments to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, and provides strategic communications counsel to the COO and CFO and other senior executives. She also leads the company’s global diversity and inclusion strategy, and, develops thought leadership positions on key business issues and trends impacting global commerce. Pitney Bowes has recognized Sheryl’s exceptional contributions with several awards, including the company’s highest employee honor – the Walter H. Wheeler, Jr. Award. She is a three-time winner of the Pitney Bowes One Standard Excellence Award for outstanding team accomplishments.
Mrs. Battles is a National Achievement Scholar that graduated from Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA with a degree in Human Biology.
She has received numerous professional and community honors including: Savoy Magazine 2016 Top Influential Women in Corporate America; 2016 Brava Award from the Greenwich YWCA; Women of Power Award from the Urban League of Southern Connecticut; “Donald H. McGannon Award” from the National Urban League; the “Community Service Award” from the Yerwood Center; the “African American Cultural Series Community Service Award” from the Stamford Center for the Arts; the Urban League of Southwestern Connecticut’s “ In Honor of Women – Leadership and Courage Award”; the “Distinguished Service Award ” from the Alpha Nu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.; and an ACE award for speech writing from the New York chapter of the IABC.
Media coverage about Mrs. Battles includes: The Harvard Business Review (“Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives”); Time Magazine (“Pathways to Power” – photo caption in which she was noted for mentoring women who were earlier in their career); Savoy Magazine’s “Top Influential Women in Corporate America” twice; PR Week (“Mothers of Invention”) and Ebony Magazine “100 Most Promising Black Women in Corporate America.”
Mrs. Battles is a popular speaker for a variety of professional and community events including: Keynote Speaker the Women’s Ledership Council for the Bridgeport Regional Business Council; 2016 Women’s Transformative Leadership Conference; Panelist on The Wealth Gap, Urban League; The Arthur W. Page Society’s Fall Conference for Chief Communications Officers; 2015 Women’s Empowerment Seminar for the Urban League of Southern Connecticut; 2015 Women in Leadership Symposium for the Tri-State Diversity Conference; the 2015Women’s Day keynote speaker for the historic Dixwell Avenue Church in New Haven; the 2014 Women’s Empowerment Seminar at the Urban League of Southern Connecticut; and the keynote speaker for the Bridgeport Rescue Mission’s Hearts of Hope event for an audience of approximately 800 over two evenings. Sheryl has spoken to professional and community organizations — such as the International Association of Business Communicators, the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Bulldog Reporter, the National Black MBA Association, InRoads, and the National Urban League — on topics such as career management in changing times, personal branding, ethics in communications, crisis/reputation management and diversity.
Mrs. Battles is very active in her community. She serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committees of the Stamford Center for the Arts and the Stamford Partnership. She is Co-Chair of the Arthur W. Page Society’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and President of the Fairfield County (CT) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. Mrs. Battles is a member of: the Chief Diversity Officers Board of i4cp; ColorComm; the Stamford-Norwalk Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc.; the Fairfield County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated; Public Relations Society of America; the Stanford University Alumni Association; and, the Stanford National Black Alumni Association.
She is married to Curt Battles, Chief Advisor of New Canaan Advisors, who has a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from Northwestern University, and they have one child. The family attends the First Presbyterian Church of Stamford where both parents have served as Elders. (Updated January 2017)
