Linda Roszak Burton
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Linda Roszak Burton is a keynote speaker, ICF credentialed executive coach and a National Board-Certified Health and Well-Being Coach (NBC-HWC), one of only 13,000 practitioners with this designation. She is recognized for her gratitude research, working with universities and researchers in Europe and Australia to explore its impact on well-being, engagement, and retention. Linda is the author of Gratitude Heals®, and a contributor to the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly advancing the science and practice of human flourishing worldwide.
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.
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
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- Traveling from East Coast, USA
- Unpacking the Pandemic
- Unpacking the Pandemic
Linda Roszak Burton, NBC-HWC, ACC, BBC, BS, Founder and President of DRW, Inc., an executive coaching firm. The firm supports the development of leaders and teams to overcome conflict and gain control of overwhelming pressures and daily challenges that limit progress and success. As an executive and well-being coach, researcher, author, and speaker, Linda brings best practices in positive psychology, gratitude, neuroscience, and Positive Organizational Behavior (POB) in delivering executive and team coaching services.
As a gratitude subject-matter expert, Linda served as an advisor to a Nurse Well-Being Steering Committee at a major academic medical center during the pandemic. She is also conducting international research with Central Queensland University in Queensland, Australia, and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, on gratitude interventions to support resilience, stress management, and sustaining well-being in crisis conditions.
Linda is a National Board Certified Health and Well-being Coach (NBC-HWC)*, a credentialed executive coach through the International Coach Federation, a certified Brain-Based Coach through the NeuroLeadership Institute, a certified Positive Psychology-Based Health and Well-Being Coach through the College of Executive Coaching, and a Charter Member of A Loving Organization.
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 and has completed coursework pursuing an M.S. in Conflict Management at the University of Baltimore.*NBC-HWC Linda maintains an active, nationally recognized credential, follows the NBC-HWC Code of Ethics and is HIPAA compliant.
Linda is a frequent speaker on the science of gratitude and the associated correlates of neuroscience. Frequently requested topics include the individual health and well-being benefits of gratitude, as well as the professional and organizational benefits of engagement and retention, as leaders reinforce positive, healthy work cultures.
Linda writes for the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly feature series on gratitude, is a frequent blogger, and author of Gratitude Heals®- A Journal for Inspiration and Guidance (Available on Amazon). In addition, her Great Mills TEDx Talk on Gratitude- The Power to Heal the World was released in December 2022.
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