Cynthia Burnham Tag

Don’t Ignore Your Virtual Natives

By Cynthia Burnham, MBA I have a coaching client I’ll call Kerry, who is a successful leader with a very large organization. Kerry has a great reputation, excellent personal presence, and strong communication skills; and received multiple promotions over the years. Together, we’ve been working on strategies to help them grow quickly into a new position, which is fully remote, like the other...

On “Curmudgeons” and “Sweeties”

By Cynthia Burnham, MBA You’re watching an old movie. The white actors have put on blackface with white, painted, oversized lips, and eyes wide. They dance around in a goofy way, wear strange clothes, and tell bad jokes in an exaggerated “uneducated” accent. The audience in the movie laugh hysterically throughout. Bad, right? I hear many of you saying, “Absolutely! I hope we have gone way...