Stephanie Bailes
President
Stephanie Bailes joined the Cade Museum as its Executive Director in February 2017, and was appointed to the Board of Trustees in November 2020. She has spent almost twenty years leading teams and initiatives in domestic and international private sector start-up, corporate, and nonprofit environments. Entities include; MCI, Bellsouth, Teligent, XO Communications, Special Olympics International, the American College of Cardiology, and Pennington & Bailes. She has management experience in marketing communications, product development & product marketing, and business planning. Stephanie has spent her career crafting organizational strategy, aligning organizational units around corporate strategy, and developing processes, budgets, and metrics to meet, fund, and measure those plans.
Stephanie has a BA in Sociology from the University of Florida. Before her career in business management, she worked as a front-line provider in Children's Home Society foster care facilities and for the state of Florida's Child Protection Team, providing crisis intervention for sexually and physically abused children. Stephanie has served on local and national Boards of several organizations, most recently having served for six years on the University of Florida Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Stephanie Bailes joined the Cade Museum as its Executive Director in February 2017, and was appointed to the Board of Trustees in November 2020. She has spent almost twenty years leading teams and initiatives in domestic and international private sector start-up, corporate, and nonprofit environments. Entities include; MCI, Bellsouth, Teligent, XO Communications, Special Olympics International, the American College of Cardiology, and Pennington & Bailes. She has management experience in marketing communications, product development & product marketing, and business planning. Stephanie has spent her career crafting organizational strategy, aligning organizational units around corporate strategy, and developing processes, budgets, and metrics to meet, fund, and measure those plans.
Stephanie has a BA in Sociology from the University of Florida. Before her career in business management, she worked as a front-line provider in Children's Home Society foster care facilities and for the state of Florida's Child Protection Team, providing crisis intervention for sexually and physically abused children. Stephanie has served on local and national Boards of several organizations, most recently having served for six years on the University of Florida Alumni Association Board of Directors.
