WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING
Executive Coaching
"Burton-Fuller is firm that provides excellent services to executives and teams. They are very diverse in the types of teams that they serve, from sports to small and large companies. Their executive coaching is second to none as they provide great tools to understand how leaders are truly wired. Burton-Fuller is also excellent in team building and creating shared goals and strategy. In this day and age, when culture is so important, they help create an optimal culture."
Mark Cross
Senior Partner, Brimstone Consulting
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“I love Mary Ruth’s energy. She is passionate about her work, and her energy is infectious. Her program literature should have a disclaimer, ‘Do not go through this process if you are not ready for an honest and candid conversation about how you can improve as a manager, a leader, and a person.’ The work involves real focus and change.”
Chris Kyle
Vice President, Shentel
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"Burton-Fuller Management's leadership development process equipped me with the tools and skills to grow to the next level as a leader. Working with a professional from outside my organization helped me reflect on my strengths, priorities and opportunities for improvement. Mary Ruth Burton's gift is focusing on the whole person's career growth. I highly recommend her to others who want to both develop as leaders and achieve greater job satisfaction."
Terrie Edwards, MHA, FACHE
Corporate Regional President
Sentara Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, VA
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"Mary Ruth Burton has been both an excellent sounding board and an insightful, strategic thinker as an executive coach. Her efforts on our management team 360 review and coaching have been invaluable."
Alex Nyerges
Director
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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“Working with Mary Ruth Burton has improved my leadership and our entire organization in VCU Athletics. The executive leadership coaching focuses on learning how to become the best leader I can rather than conforming to a leadership model that may not fit everyone. Mary Ruth teaches and coaches to my strengths and challenges so I can focus on the important aspects of our organization and culture, maximizing our efforts every day.”
Ed McLaughlin,
Athletic Director
Virginia Commonwealth University
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“The opportunity to work with Mary Ruth and Burton-Fuller Management was incredibly valuable to the Atlantic 10 staff. The advance work, assessing staff strengths and weakness was professionally rewarding for all and will benefit everyone for many years to come. This preparation set the tone for an excellent staff retreat which resulted in a more efficient work environment, increased enthusiasm and a better understanding of co-workers decision making. I believe the conference office became more productive in servicing the membership.”
Bernadette V. McGlade, Commissioner
Atlantic 10 Conference
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“Burton-Fuller Management has helped prepare me and my teams for success. Mary Ruth Burton has the tools, processes and experience to assess strengths, create motivation and assure accountability. Her advice on leadership and communication has been extremely helpful.”
Anthony Grant, Head Basketball Coach
University of Dayton
Naismith
AP Coach of the Year 2020
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Team Building
“Mary Ruth Burton and her team have been a great business partner to CVEC. Their teambuilding work has resulted in better cohesion and communication within our staff. Through their individual coaching we have sharpened our skills and raised our performance. We are a better company because of our relationship with them.”
Gary Wood, President and CEO
Central Virginia Electric Cooperative
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“Mary Ruth’s leadership skills were invaluable in guiding us through discussions of vision and strategy for our organization. She made sure that everyone had a change to offer their insights, and she asked probing questions that helped us to be clearer about our long term hopes and dreams.
Mary Ruth is warm, engaging and insightful. We learned about our strengths and challenges and identified opportunities to improve how our team engages and solves problems. I highly recommend
Burton-Fuller to any organization.”
The Very Reverend Randolph Hollerith
Dean, Washington National Cathedral
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Organizational Development and Training
“In providing training for Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc., Burton-Fuller Management has proven to be a valuable business partner and has worked closely with us to determine exactly what our training needs have been. The consultants took the time to learn our business and have developed wonderful working relationships with many of our employees. They then provided high quality, customized presentations that have been very well received by participants."
Lorie McCollough, SPHR
Manager, Human Resources & Employee Development
Hamilton Beach
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“A quality that I consider unique about Burton-Fuller is their ability to create value in all phases: program development, program delivery, post program delivery evaluation and follow-up. I consider them a very valuable coaching resource that has served me well for over 15 years.”
Raymond LaCour, Sr. VP
Raymond James & Associates, Tampa, FL
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“Mary Ruth has been a great resource for Chesterfield County over the years. She has provided both organizational development consulting and training opportunities for employees. I value Mary Ruth’s approach to a client as being approachable, thorough, and authentic. She has the ability to connect with the client, push beyond the client’s comfort level, and create change. In training, she brings real, understandable and entertaining examples to her message, which is grounded in current theory and practice.”
Kevin Bruny, SPHR
Chief Learning Officer and University Dean
Chesterfield University
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“I have engaged Burton-Fuller Management and Mary Ruth Burton for assignments related to the start-up of two different organizations – one in high-tech and one in financial services. I have been impressed with the way Burton-Fuller fully assesses the needs of their client and develops individualized processes to address the situation.
I would liken engaging Burton-Fuller to having an extremely competent friend in the business, always there and available to provide support and practical advice that ensures your success.”
Scott Heslink, President and CEO
The Rowboat Company
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“Mary Ruth Burton’s coaching was an eye-opening and wonderful experience that truly helped me develop as a leader. It was a pleasure to work with her, and I’m forever grateful for the opportunity.”
Tracey Gibson
Hamilton Beach
Sr. Director of Amazon Sales
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“Working with Mary Ruth has been life changing for me. The skills that I have learned from her have helped me in my professional and personal life. Mary Ruth helped me to realize my strengths and weakness through recognizing my stress behaviors. Understanding my stress behaviors and what I need to be successful has helped me navigate employee conflicts, laying off employees, planning for the future, navigating a pandemic, and what I need for growth. Most importantly her coaching has taught me the skills that I need to cope and function with the inevitable stress created from work and just being human. It is the most valuable coaching and training I have every received.”
Emily Lehmann
SOAR 365
Assistant Vice President of Day and Respite Services
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“The depth and breadth of Nancy Adams’s experience was a huge asset to me and my team. Starting our coaching with the same baseline information derived from our Birkman assessments gave my team a strong understanding of one another and a good place to start our conversations together as we worked through communication issues. Nancy’s awareness of individual assessments and her grounding that in her coaching kept us on track. Her ability to help us list a few potential paths forward was especially meaningful in everyday practice for me and my team.”
Kelly Chopus, former
President and CEO
Robins Foundation
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“I came in for help with my presentation skills and left with so much more. I identified a couple ways of thinking that had been holding me back. Facing into and modifying them has brought me greater productivity, confidence, and enjoyment both professionally and personally. Thanks very much to Mary Ruth for being such an excellent coach.”
Director of Customer Insights, large healthcare corporation
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“Our executive management team worked closely with Nancy Adams to identify a clear process for going forward to correct some of the ways in which we communicated with each other and our respective teams. The Birkman assessment and comparative results were instrumental in understanding how best to communicate with each other. ”
Sarah Golden
President and CAO
The GBS Group
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“I cannot overstate how well Mary Ruth Burton led me through a transformational period in my professional life. She did a superb job of guiding me through the development and execution of my transition plan. The entire process could not have gone more smoothly or produced a better result. Mary Ruth provided experience, leadership, creativity, discipline and – perhaps most importantly – gentle but persistent prodding. The rules for life and more that we created have helped me create a balanced life.”
Bill Walsh
Retired partner
Hunton Andrews Kurth
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“Burton-Fuller Management is exceptionally skilled in helping a group identify its strengths and then developing concrete strategies that enable it to work from strength. The consultant’s skills, confident delivery style and self-awareness enable her to create a safe place in which a group can explore conflict, difference in style and the giving and receiving of feedback.”
Anne Dalton, Former Chief Operating Officer
Association of Junior Leagues International
New York, NY
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