Vonda Vaden Bates is an alliance builder, public speaker, and coach who helps multidisciplinary teams communicate effectively, align around shared goals, and achieve extraordinary results. For more than 30 years, she has guided professionals and organizations in moving from potential to action — strengthening leadership, collaboration, engagement, and communication. Her work has contributed to major market shifts across television, retail, banking, technology, education, and health care.
Known for facilitating meaningful conversations across roles and perspectives, Vonda helps organizations navigate complexity, strengthen trust, and build cultures where people are heard, valued, and achieve ambitious goals together.
In 2012, after her husband, Yogiraj Charles Bates, died from a hospital-associated venous thromboembolism, Vonda began applying her expertise to patient safety and healthcare communication. Through national speaking engagements, advocacy, facilitation, and published work — including a recent co-authored article with the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, “The Patient Experience: The Missing Vital Sign for Safe Perioperative Care” — she brings a compassionate voice and strategic perspective to improving communication between patients, families, clinicians, and healthcare teams.
Vonda is the CEO of 10th Dot®, a company founded by her late husband that coaches and trains individuals, teams, and organizations to identify potential and bring ideas to life.
