Ursula Burns

I admire Ursula Burns as a phenomenal woman and business leader. Ursula is undoubtedly a superior leader. Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American business leader who has been chairwoman of Xerox since 2010, and was Xerox CEO from 2009-2016. Burns was the first African American woman CEO to head a fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a fortune 500 company. In 2014, Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world. (Wikipedia

The engineering career of Ursula Burns began as a summer intern at Xerox in 1980; in 2009, she became the first African-American female CEO. In a dialogue before a group at MIT sharing their feelings regarding her rise in leadership, Ursula Burns, spoke of her family's modest beginnings, living in the projects in the lower east side of Manhattan. Where she and her siblings were encouraged excelling, shielded them and kept safe. Steadfastness through her main beliefs of where one may live does not

Exploring The Leadership Style of Ursula Burns CEO of Xerox Corporation Myra A. Duke Dr. Eddie Montgomery Leadership and Organizational Behavior June 9, 2013 It is rare nowadays for a person to become the top ranking executive at the same company they intern with. Ursula Burns did just that by doing a summer internship with Xerox Corporation, and going on to become the CEO twenty-nine years later. Ursula Burns was the first African-American women to be name CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and

changed the world in way never thought possible. These paved roads allow me to discuss Ursula Burns. Ursula Burns is the first African-American female Chief Executive Officer. Not only is she a Chief Executive Office, but she is the CEO of Xerox, which is also a Fortune 500 Company. Ursula’s own road was not paved in gold, it was exactly the opposite. A single mother on the lower East Side of Manhattan raised her. Ursula was quoted stating that, “Many people told me I had three strikes against me: I was

fortune 500 company. I was not aiming to writer about anyone in particular. The reason I chose Ursula Burn because she is a CEO of a fairly known company Xerox. For this paper I will review and research Ursula’s personal view on life, as well as her management style and of she "lives" their management style? Ursula had a changeling up bring. She didn’t let her home life affect her school life. Burns earned an engineering degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York and went on to earn a graduate

Enter into this environment, a young, poor, black woman from the projects. Ursula was not prepared for their program. She was the only female in a school of mostly white men. The school existed outside of her comfort zone, in a different borough of New York. She had to take additional classes to catch up with her peers. For probably the first time in her life, she doubted herself and her decision to enter this prestigious school. But she was a quick study, and after switching her major from

and empathy (Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee, 2013). These components of emotional intelligence are also in alignment with the biblical principles of leadership (Bryant, 2011). And all of these characteristics can be found in the dynamic Ms. Ursula Burns. Ursula Burns is chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation. Or as she likes to call herself a chief storyteller (Hymowitz, 2013). She is also the first black

rest was really up to me”” –Ursula Burns, Chairwoman and CEO of Xerox (Byrnes and Crockett, 2009). These previous words by Ursula Burns display her resilience to prove her worth to the business world, regardless of her gender and the color of her skin. The basic idea of this case was to display the significance of Burns’ helm at CEO and what she has done to attempt in making Xerox the leading company in its industry again. In terms of breaking diversity barriers, Burns became the first African-American

Anne Mulcahy was born on October 21, 1952. After high school she attended Marymount College and later became the first woman CEO in Xerox’s history in August of 2001. She also went on to be the company’s first female chairman in January of 2002. Anne has been a part of the company since 1976 when she was hired as a field sales representative and slowly worked her way up to CEO, a position that Anne had never even considered a possibility. When Anne was appointed as the new CEO of one of Americas

CASE 2 - XEROX QUESTION 1 How would Xerox define diversity? How has its definition changed over the years? In business , diversity has seen action in the managing of human resource as essential capital in fostering businesses at a global scale . Diversity is also seen as a concept where differences can be a powerful resource . Based on the Case facts, Xerox value diversity as the most priceless resource to drive the company towards achieving its goals. According to Xerox Chairman & former