Leander Calixte-Jn. Baptiste

SBDC St. Lucia

Mrs. Jn. Baptiste joined the Department of Commerce, as a Business Development Officer.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the National Taiwan University, in Taiwan.
This opportunity was afforded
to Mrs. Jn. Baptiste through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
R.O.C Taiwan Scholarship in 2007. Additionally, she also completed a
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Management at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus in
2005 and graduated with upper second class honours. Mrs. Jn. Baptiste is intrinsically motivated and is one who
believes in continuous self-development; therefore in 2015 she successfully completed the Professional Project Management
(PMP) Certification from the Project Management Institute of Pennsylvania and is currently PMP certified.
No one would have guessed, but this reserved young lady was a Secondary School Teacher for over six (6) years.
She taught Principles of Business, Principles of Accounts, Office Administration and a number of other subjects at
the St. Lucia Seventh Day Adventist Academy, Bocage Secondary and Babonneau Secondary School. Although she
enjoyed her teaching experience, Mrs. Jn. Baptiste wanted to make an even greater contribution towards the development
of Saint Lucia, hence the reason she changed career paths and grabbed the opportunity to work at the
Department.
Mrs. Jn. Baptiste loves to travel, meet new people, experience different cultures and learn different languages.
While studying in Taiwan she learnt to speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese and obtained the Test of Chinese
Proficiency-Huayu Certificate from the National Taiwan Normal University, Chinese Language Center. One of her
future goals is to become more fluent in the Chinese language. She lives by the quote which says “The heights of
great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling
upward in the night.” And this is exactly what Mrs. Jn. Baptiste did, she toiled and persevered against the odds and
this is why she is here with us today at the Department of Commerce, making a significant contribution towards the
growth and development of the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) sector in Saint Lucia