Steven J. Baines is an organizational and leadership development, image consultant, trainer, and executive coach. He helps individuals and organizations define themselves through their appearance, behavior, and communication.
His career has been spent on improving organizations through education, training, leadership development, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and volunteering for worthy causes.
Steven works full-time in human resources as a senior consultant in Talent and Organizational Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, TX. In this capacity, he coaches, trains, facilitates, and oversees leadership programs and courses to improve employee performance and optimize their potential. Steven owns Elevate Your Image, LLC, organizational development, and image consulting business, which helps in presenting one’s best self forward.
His current community involvement in Galveston includes serving on the board of directors on The Grand 1984 Opera House, and Galveston’s Own Farmers Market, as president. He’s a past president of ANCIO Articulators Toastmasters and a former Toastmaster of the Year.
A native of Cincinnati, OH, Steven worked for six years at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He also worked and lived overseas twice. First, as a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Bolivia, for over two years, and second, for three years as an HIV/AIDS and partnership development program manager for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Malawi.
Steven served as chairperson of the board for the City of Cincinnati Health Department, responsible for more than $40 million. He was the diversity and inclusion co-chair for the Human Rights Campaign in Greater Cincinnati. Steven was also one of their national diversity, inclusion & equity trainers for LGBTQ representation.
His formal educational background includes a master’s in International & Intercultural Management from the School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT, and a bachelor’s in Communications from Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH. Steven is pursuing a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Walden University, Minneapolis, MN.