MaryJo Burchard

157 points

Virginia

MaryJo Burchard (Concord Leader) helps leaders in business, public sector, education, and nonprofits to develop open behaviors and interactions to measurably raise the bar of humane, Open engagement in the workplace. MaryJo has a PhD in Organizational Leadership from Regent University and conducts training and internal organizational development consulting for executives and managers. Her use of humor and personal stories makes her a popular keynote speaker on change readiness, trust, inclusion, and authenticity in the workplace. MaryJo lives in Virginia Beach with her husband Kenny, their son Victor, and their chihuahua-pug, Stanley.

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Authored Content

What's the cheese no one in your organization will touch, let alone move?

How to start conversations about your team's open secrets

Meetings that make people happy: Myth or magic?

Want to hold more engaging meetings? You'll need to establish trust. Start by answering seven questions about yourself.

Change at work is always personal: How to start with yourself

Successfully navigating disruption requires taking a good, hard look at your values—first and foremost.

Facing disruption? Optimize for stability or speed

Is your organization more like a sailboat or a speedboat? Your answer reveals the assumptions you make about dealing with change.

Authored Comments

maryjo

21 Feb 2019

How our non-profit works openly to make education accessible

Wow! Great work - your narrative really highlights how Open principles can help create true community while building meaningful systems, processes, and products that perpetuate connection. What resonates most is the integral part empathy plays in holding the process together.

maryjo

2 May 2018

Facing disruption? Optimize for stability or speed

Thanks, Michael. You bring up what may be the most mission-critical issues in the disruption discussion: confusion arising from an unconscious conflation of meanings between the shared words of tech-natives and people-natives. Clarity increases the more we each recognize that our lens (and meanings) are nuanced to our background. We need to get good at clarifying what we mean. This can help us nail down technical, relational, and structural/logistical elements of an issue. We all stand to emerge with a more holistic, multi-dimensional perspective when we look at the issue together.