Linda Roszak Burton

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Linda Roszak Burton is a keynote speaker, the author of “Gratitude Heals®” and a certified coach to executive leaders. Her work helps leaders to create positive cultures, develop positive leadership attributes and inspire employees. Most recently, she completed a Gratitude Intervention Study resulting in statistically significant improvements (p<0.001) in employee engagement and meaningfulness of work.

GUIDING PRINCIPLE

Supporting leaders to create a psychologically safe and positive work culture. Bringing best practices in positive psychology, neuroleadership and gratitude to inspire and engage employees.

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Popular Talks

Discovering the Health and Well-Being Benefits of Gratitude

Attendees gain a greater understanding of the science of gratitude, what it is and why it matters. In addition, they experience the types of gratitude practices that lead to these benefits and techniques to sustain their practices.

The Neuroscience of Gratitude – What Leaders Need to Know About This New Neural Knowledge

Attendees explore the correlates of neuroscience and gratitude as leadership essentials. They understand how the brain perceives the workplace as a social system, how to minimize the brain’s threat response and increase the reward centers to create greater psychological safety, trust, and collaboration.

The Foundations of Grateful Leadership

Attendees explore the science of positive psychology and gratitude and align with the attributes of neuroleadership to define their Grateful Leadership Brand. Grounded in values and strengths and aligned with the positive leadership strategies, they create an organizational gratitude goal to build and broaden its impact.

Speaking & Workshops

Discovering the Health and Well-Being Benefits of Gratitude

Attendees gain a greater understanding of positive psychology and the science of gratitude (what it is and why it matters.) They are well prepared to further cultivate and sustain a practice of gratitude and achieve these benefits for health and well-being.

The Neuroscience of Gratitude – What Leaders Need to Know About This New Neural Knowledge

Attendees explore the definition of positive psychology and the correlates of neuroscience and gratitude as leadership essentials. Armed with this information, they have a deeper understanding of how to apply this new knowledge to build greater psychological safety and positively impact individual and team engagement.

How to Optimize Gratitude Now and Post-Pandemic

Attendees explore the science of positive psychology and gratitude and align with the attributes of neuroleadership to define their Grateful Leadership Brand. Grounded in values and strengths and aligned with the positive leadership strategies they create an organizational gratitude goal to build and broaden its impact in the organization.

Coaching

Important elements of DRW’s evidence-based executive coaching programs are client-directed, strengths-based, solution-focused, using stretch goals, positive feedback in a confidential and structured format. In addition, a selection of various assessments are administered for the discovery of present-state strengths, preferences, and vulnerabilities – giving the client the needed space for introspection, identification of areas of growth, and development of related goal(s).

“Beautiful! Thank you for your leadership. Please know you are making a difference with this group of nurses and our plus 3s (Mike, Lisa and Patty)! We walk out of the board room recharged, brimming with gratitude and smiles. As the leader to most of the participants, I am seeing changes in how they approach situations and focus on gratitude. It warms my heart.”
– Trisha Jungels, MS, BAN, RN, Jamestown Regional Medical Center

“The COVID-19 pandemic has left healthcare staff stressed, isolated and uncertain about the future. Add to the losses we’ve suffered the constant need to present ourselves as more “okay” than we really feel. Linda’s program, Gratitude Heals During Times of Isolation and Uncertainty was helpful to our nursing home community which needed that change in perspective to see although we have been through a lot there was a lot to be grateful towards.”
– Bryan O. Buckley, DrPH, MPH MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety

“Linda Roszak Burton’s talk on The Neuroscience of Gratitude was powerful! Linda connected all the essentials; what the science tells us, how to practice gratitude, as well as its impact on increasing our personal well-being, group capacity and on-going progress. It’s rare to host such a clear, concise speaker whose material can create both an immediate impact and boundless possibility. Thank you, Linda!”
– Adam Venker, Director of Teleclass Programs for ICF Los Angeles Chapter

“Being able to share the positive impact gratitude can have on our well-being with fellow employees and students at Virginia Tech has been invaluable. The amount of growth I observed over the course of four weeks using Linda’s Gratitude Heals® Workbook has been incredible. Participants have shared that being a part of these sessions has lowered their anxiety, made them feel more connected, and not only affected their well-being but the well-being of those around them.”
– Kelly McPherson Facilitator, Virginia Tech Rec Sports

"As an executive coach, Linda has a gift of listening to others, acknowledging their thoughts and perspectives, and, adapting to the almost daily change initiatives we were dealing with."
— MICHELLE KRAUS

Linda Roszak Burton, ACC, BBC, BS is Founder of DRW, Inc., an executive coaching firm supporting the development of positive and healthy cultures, positive leaders, and engaged employees.

Linda combines the latest research in positive psychology, gratitude, and neuroscience in the delivery of executive and team coaching services. She supports various research initiatives as it relates to employee engagement and building a positive work environment.

Linda currently serves in an advisory role for a Nursing Steering Committee at a major academic medical center as a gratitude subject matter expert. She’s conducting research with Central Queensland University in Australia, and Angelia Ruskin University in England, on gratitude interventions to support nurse resilience.

Linda is a credentialed, certified coach to executive leaders through the International Coach Federation, a certified Brain-Based Coach through the NeuroLeadership Institute, a Mental Fitness Coach through Positive Intelligence, a licensed Positive Psychology Instructor, and a member of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School Affiliate. She holds a B.S in Health Education from Virginia Tech, has completed coursework pursuing an M.S. in Conflict Management at the University of Baltimore.

Linda is a frequent speaker and writer on the science of gratitude and the associated correlates of neuroscience. Frequently requested topics include individual health and well-being benefits of gratitude and the professional and organizational benefits to reinforce positive cultures. She is the author of “Gratitude Heals®– A Journal for Inspiration and Guidance” (Available on Amazon) and the upcoming eBook, “It Takes a Pandemic – 30 Days to Finding Gratitude, Hope and Kindness”.

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