Catalyze Momentum. Unleash Potential.

From Stuck to Unstoppable

Empowering individuals to make change accessible and achievable, helping them get unstuck and out of their own way by starting where they are.

I believe in your potential to transform. Do you?

- Rachel Burr

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Things I love to talk about...

I’m an executive coach, leadership consultant, and people expert. I understand how people work inside and out. I love to share practical tips for how to...

  • Lead with Authenticity: Discover why staying true to your values is essential for effective and impactful leadership.

  • Navigate Ambiguity in Leadership: Learn strategies to thrive in uncertain environments and turn challenges into growth opportunities.

  • Master Emotional Intelligence: Understand how empathy and emotional intelligence strengthen teams and foster a positive workplace culture.

  • Overcome Leadership Challenges: Identify practical actions on tackling common leadership obstacles, from managing people to making tough decisions.

  • Unlock Human Potential: Explore methods to help leaders and their teams reach their full potential through personalized coaching and development.

  • Leverage Humor in Leadership: See how humor can build stronger relationships, ease tensions, and drive positive change in the workplace.

  • Transform from Stuck to Unstoppable: Discover techniques for breaking through barriers and achieving lasting personal and professional change.

  • Balance Strategy and People Skills: Learn how to align business goals with a people-centered leadership approach for success and team engagement.

  • Build Your Journey: Embrace the continuous self-improvement and growth that are key to becoming a great leader.

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Leading with Practical Wisdom

Simple Steps to Reduce Quiet Quitting

Quiet quitting is not new. It’s just gotten more press in the past few years. More than a decade ago, I recommended that a leader invest in the development of his team to improve engagement and collaboration to achieve better results.

“But what if I develop them and they leave?” he asked...

The Old Boat Shed

My grandparents’ fishing cabin was not much to look at. It had a few small rooms, a “one-fanny” kitchen, and it sat on the bank of a muddy river filled knee-deep with silt. My grandfather bought it as a place to get away from the world (and, at times, away from my grandmother).

Using Behavioral Psychology to Improve the Customer Experience

When interacting with clients and customers, perception is reality! By using principles from behavioral psychology, leaders can emphasize the positive to improve customer satisfaction.

Real people. real results.

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Turn Complexity into Clarity

In today’s fast-paced world, leaders often face uncertainty and complexity. I help them navigate these challenges with confidence.

By combining insights from psychology with a practical approach to leadership, I guide leaders through difficult situations, turning challenges into opportunities for growth. Great leaders continuously adapt and drive clarity for their teams in the face of never-ending change.

Develop Authentic Leadership

I believe that authenticity is the key to great leadership. I help leaders align their personal values with their professional actions to develop a leadership style that is both true and impactful.

By combining humor, guidance, and straightforward communication, I make leadership development accessible and fulfilling to help leaders unlock their full potential.

Unleash Potential

We step into our greatest leadership when we connect to our unique core. We need to unpack our heads to discover how our thoughts, aspirations, values, challenges, and other stuff at the bottom of our mental closet drive us and/or hold us back. The answers are in us.

We don’t need to push ourselves through somebody else’s cookie cutter to bake ourselves into a great leader. We need to take all that gooey delicious dough and mold it into the unique leader we want to be. No one can tell us who we are or what we want to become. We must discover that for ourselves. When we embrace the power and responsibility for our leadership, that is when we unleash the full power of our potential.

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Tap Into My Expertise

  • Can you tell us about your own journey of transformation and what inspired you to write your book?

  • What are the most common challenges you see in people who feel stuck in their personal or professional lives?

  • Why do you think people are so afraid of change, and how can they overcome this fear?"

  • You emphasize the importance of humor in your work. How does humor help in making change more accessible?

  • How can someone who feels they are 'not good enough' begin to build their confidence and take action?

  • Your book includes real-life exercises. Can you talk about how readers can apply these exercises in their daily lives?

  • You talk about courage being when the fear of the unknown is overshadowed by the dread of staying the same. Can you elaborate on this?

  • What advice do you have for people dealing with setbacks and disappointments during their transformation process?

about me

Meet Rachel Burr

A Unique Blend of Insight, Action, and Humor 

I'm an executive coach, leadership consultant, and people expert. Leadership is challenging because people are challenging, and, last time I looked, leaders are people. When we add the challenges of leading groups of other people, developing a workplace culture, and driving success, we increase the difficulty by tenfold, even a hundredfold. (Is there an infinite fold?) Let’s just say it’s complex. Leadership is not easy or for the faint of heart. Still, most leaders land themselves in their roles because they’re individual rockstars, not because they know how to lead people. That’s where I come in. 

I’ve worked with leaders, organizations, and understanding human behavior for over 20 years. I believe most (read as “none”) of us have unlocked our full potential. And when I say our full potential, I mean the unique combination of strengths, talents, and passions that make each of us who we are. Leadership is not a cookie cutter. When we embrace and develop our leadership from our authentic core, we step into our full power to create impact and achieve success for ourselves, our organizations, and the people we lead. 

How do we do this? Leaders and I work together to honestly examine what they bring to their role, including strengths, weaknesses, values, and everything in between. We confront challenges they must overcome, and we identify actions they will take to reach their goals. I coach individual executives and their teams, and I facilitate team sessions and offsites to help leaders develop their leadership and build high-performing teams.

If you need something more tangible to increase your confidence in my work, I understand. Here are a few credentials to make you more comfortable:

  • I have two master’s degrees in organizational development and clinical psychology.

  • I hold way too many certifications because (1) I genuinely love to learn and (2) leaders face continuously evolving and challenging environments. Therefore, I need to continue to develop my knowledge and expertise to support their success.

  • Please feel free to check out the details on my LinkedIn and my website.

In sum you must build a unique path to develop your authentic leadership. I would be honored to support and guide you through your journey.

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