About Burns Leadership
We help leaders build workplaces where people can truly thrive.
More than twenty years leading inside organizations. Fifteen years teaching leadership. All of it aimed at one thing: leadership that changes what happens on Monday morning, in the decisions that actually run the business.
Why this work matters
Leadership shapes more than a business. It shapes the people who go home from it.
We’ve spent decades inside organizations, watching capable people carry the weight of decisions that reach far past the walls of the office. When leadership is strong, people don’t just perform. They come alive. When it isn’t, everyone feels it—at work and at home.
That’s the difference we’re after. Not a one-time personality assessment people file away, but leadership that holds up under real pressure, in the meeting nobody’s watching, in the decisions that shape how a team works long after the engagement ends. We measure success in workplace performance and organizational health together, because we don’t believe you can really have one without the other.
How we work
We work with capable leaders and teams ready to amplify what’s already working.
Every engagement is grounded in our LeadershipOS™ framework, connecting alignment, decision-making, engagement, and execution to results that hold up over time. The certifications and partnerships below are part of how we get there—tools in service of the work, never the point of it.
International Coaching Federation (ICF) — Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Co-Active Training Institute — Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
Learning Agility — TALENTx7™ Certified Professional
Hogan Assessments — HPI, HDS & MVPI Certified Facilitator
Gallup — Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach
Gallup — Q12® Facilitator
Multi-Health Systems (MHS) — Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i 2.0® & EQ 360®) Certified Facilitator
Association for Talent Development (ATD) — Human Performance Improvement Certified
Wiley — Everything DiSC® Authorized Partner and Certified Facilitator
Our certification partners
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What would it take for your leaders to truly thrive?
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