Laura Burnham
Helping organizations and leaders transform and thrive in today’s workplace.
- Role
- Umass Icorps Director at Laura Burnham Leadership
- Location
- Amherst, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Laura Burnham
Executive with expertise in leadership development and coaching, non-profit management and strategic growth, complex innovation and entrepreneurship training programs and advancing equity. Implemented programs in 14+ countries and lived in four. Areas of expertise: Leadership Development and Coaching: Working with executive leaders to improve communication, lead people, solve problems and innovate while aligning personal values, spirit and heart. Program Management: Development, design and delivery of science and technology start-up mentoring and training programs at VentureWell and MIT. Strategic Operations: Guided 1-year and 3-year planning processes for teams and organization. People Management: Highly regarded people manager leading effective matrixed teams utilizing collaborative approaches to accomplish KPIs. Conceived and instituted VentureWell’s peer recognition program. Business Development: Led organizational growth for VentureWell, a large non-profit focused on STEM entrepreneurship, as it evolved from $4m annual revenue in 2012 to $90m in annual revenue and ~90 staff in 2022. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Deep commitment and active promotion of inclusive innovation and advancing equity through programs, organizational practices and thought leadership.
Experience
Umass Icorps Director
Jan 2024 — Present
Support UMASS scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the university laboratory — accelerating the economic and societal benefits of NSF-funded and other basic research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization.
Education
Clark University
Master of Arts - MA, Development Economics and International Development
University of Connecticut
BA, English & Sociology
Georgetown University
Institute for Transformational Leadership, Certificate in Leadership Coaching
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