Navigate Complexity.
Lead with Clarity.
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Batsheva Baraban

About Batsheva Baraban

Batsheva Baraban is the founder of Spiralead, delivering lectures, workshops, and trainings that help teams, executives, and organizations navigate complexity, culture, and leadership with clarity and impact.

With over a decade of experience leading cross-cultural teams, scaling education startups, and designing global leadership programs, Batsheva brings practical frameworks rooted in real-world challenges. Her sessions combine insight, strategy, and interactive reflection to equip participants with tools they can immediately apply.

Signature Topics

  • Negotiation as Navigation – mastering negotiation as a leadership skill
  • Bridging Cultural Gaps – working effectively across cultures and borders
  • Women's Leadership Empowerment – amplifying voice, presence, and impact

Batsheva holds a Master's in International Education Policy from Harvard University, a BA in Political Science and Philosophy (Summa Cum Laude) and a coaching license. French-Israeli, she speaks Hebrew, English, and French fluently.

What Spiralead Offers

Experiential, practical sessions designed for real teams facing real challenges

Bridging the Gap: Cultural Intelligence for Global Teams

1 hour experiential lecture

An experiential lecture for global teams working across Israel and the U.S. Turn cultural friction into trust, clarity, and stronger performance.

The Challenge

Global teams fail less because of strategy and more because of unspoken cultural misunderstandings: directness mistaken for rudeness, diplomacy read as avoidance, speed confused with chaos, and structure seen as rigidity.

What Participants Will Gain

  • Decode hidden cultural assumptions in communication, feedback, decision-making, and conflict
  • Understand why misunderstandings occur between Israeli and U.S.-based teams
  • Learn how to adapt without losing authenticity
  • Turn cultural friction into trust, clarity, and stronger performance

Ideal For

  • Global and hybrid teams
  • Israeli companies working with U.S. counterparts
  • Managers leading multicultural teams
  • HR leaders seeking high-impact, non-generic learning experiences

Outcome: Clearer communication, reduced friction, and more effective collaboration across borders.

Lead Like a Spiral: Women's Leadership for a Changing World

1 hour leadership lecture

A thoughtful leadership perspective for International Women's Day. Non-linear leadership rooted in inner clarity, relational intelligence, and navigating complexity.

The Approach

This lecture offers a thoughtful leadership perspective that combines contemporary leadership theory, real organizational experience, and a non-linear model of leadership inspired by women's cycles and systems thinking.

It speaks to leadership as a practice rooted in inner clarity, relational intelligence, and the ability to navigate complexity—rather than focusing on inspiration alone.

What Makes It Different

  • Meaningful, substantive content (not generic inspiration)
  • Reflective moments that engage without requiring personal exposure
  • Effective for mixed, global, and senior audiences
  • Clear language and frameworks participants can continue to use

The Session Includes

Two short, well-contained reflective moments that engage the audience without requiring group sharing or workshop-style participation, making it effective and comfortable for diverse audiences.

Outcome: Participants leave with clear language, insight, and a conceptual framework they can continue to use in their professional lives.

Negotiation as Navigation

1.5 hour interactive workshop

A practical, experiential workshop for everyday negotiations. Harvard Kennedy School frameworks adapted to Israeli workplace culture.

Why This Workshop

Negotiation is no longer limited to sales or procurement. Employees negotiate daily: priorities, salaries, deadlines, resources, hybrid work, boundaries, and even personal commitments that affect performance.

Yet most people approach negotiation intuitively, emotionally, or defensively—often escalating conflict instead of creating movement.

The Core Approach

Instead of teaching negotiation as persuasion or "winning", the workshop reframes it as navigation: How do you move forward when interests clash, emotions run high, or power is uneven?

Participants Learn To

  • Separate people from problems
  • Identify real interests beneath positions
  • Communicate under pressure
  • Generate options beyond "yes/no"
  • Know when to agree and when to walk away

What Participants Experience

  • A live negotiation simulation that reveals common blind spots
  • Guided reflection on emotions, perception, and communication
  • A structured listening exercise that replaces debate with understanding
  • Practical tools for immediate application

Key Concepts Covered

  • People vs. Problem: Managing emotions without personalizing conflict
  • Interests vs. Positions: Understanding the "why" behind demands
  • Option Generation: Creating value before making trade-offs
  • Objective Criteria: Making fair decisions without power struggles
  • BATNA: Knowing your alternatives and negotiation power

Outcome: More confident, clear, and effective in difficult conversations—at work and beyond.

Why Choose Spiralead

Grounded Frameworks

Theory meets practice. Harvard-trained insights adapted to real organizational challenges.

Experiential Learning

No generic lectures. Live simulations, reflections, and tools you can apply immediately.

Cross-Cultural Expertise

Deep experience bridging Israeli and American work cultures with authenticity.

Substantive Content

Meaningful insights over inspiration. Content that respects your intelligence.

Immediately Applicable

Tools and frameworks you can use the next day, not abstract concepts.

Culturally Adapted

Designed for the Israeli workplace while honoring global best practices.

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Whether you're looking for a one-time lecture, a series of workshops, or ongoing leadership development, I'd love to hear about your needs and explore how Spiralead can support your team.