Versilia Jn Baptiste : ‘Whatever You Do, Do It Well!’

Versilia Jn Baptiste stands tall as a beacon of inspiration for her fellow team members at Sandals Halcyon Beach Resort and Spa. Always pushing her colleagues to aspire to greater heights. Versilia, the resort’s front office supervisor, started her Sandals journey 21 years ago with a firm belief in the mantra, ‘you don’t get everything right away, you have to start, you have to want it, and you have to remain persistent until you get it.” Hailing from the community of Desruisseaux, Micoud in the south of Saint Lucia, Versilia graduated from the Clendon Mason Memorial Secondary School, before moving to Castries in her early 20s. She carried with her a strong desire to find employment and absorb as much knowledge as possible, “growing up, I knew that learning should be my biggest goal because this is what would propel me to get to where I want to be in life. I did not have a tertiary education, so I used every opportunity and experience to learn something, to walk away knowing more than I knew when I started. Learning is what keeps me going every day.” Versilia’s first job in Castries was as a babysitter, which she didwhile pursuing...