Valorie Burton

Small wins can pay off big! Social scientists and business experts agree that modest victories can provide major inspiration. You may have heard of the progress principle: Researchers at Harvard Business School conducted a multi-year study of what makes employees happy and productive. They found that daily progress on meaningful work was the most powerful factor by far.  Here are...

Have you dreamed of becoming a business coach, a life coach, a speaker or a trainer, and yet, you keep talking about doing it “someday”? Or perhaps you’ve dreamed of building a wildly successful business, but you keep putting off the things you know will help your business grow? Dreams are powerful, but only if you turn them into action....

As we start to close out Women’s History Month, it’s my honor to share a few thoughts as part of the Maxwell Leadership team about what leadership means to me and the choices behind great leadership, particularly from my perspective as a woman, as an entrepreneur, and as a life and executive coach. Leadership can be such a broad term...

This message is excerpted from the book Life Coaching for Successful Women: Powerful Questions, Practical Answers by Valorie Burton. Research shows that resilient people think differently. They have a set of skills – sometimes learned, other times innate – that allow them to persevere, manage stress, and triumph in the face of challenges. In the midst of your current challenges, which of...