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Linda Roszak Burton brings 25 years of experience in aligning strategic goals and organizational values through leadership development and employee engagement initiatives. Linda also offers expertise to organizations looking to achieve structural alignment and enhance strategic goal planning. Combining her research and evidence-based applications of positive psychology, contemporary neuroscience, gratitude and healthy work environments, Linda champions humanism in health care. She is honored to coach esteemed health care leaders in various settings.

Before joining Accordant, Linda founded and continues to serve as managing partner of a leadership development, organizational design and executive coaching firm. As an executive and well-being coach, Linda is passionate about fostering a positive environment with organizational accountability through consensus-building and conflict resolution. Her coaching methodology supports the strengths-based development of leaders and teams, enabling them to overcome conflict and gain control over overwhelming pressures that limit progress and success.

Linda is a credentialed executive coach through the International Coach Federation, a certified Brain-Based Coach through the NeuroLeadership Institute, a certified Positive Psychology-Based Health and Well-Being Coach through the College of Executive Coaching, and a member of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Linda is currently preparing for the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) and the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWBC) board exams and certifications. Linda is also certified in several assessment instruments to support client awareness, insight and goal clarification, including Everything DiSC®, Conflict Dynamics Profile® (CDP), Retirement Success Profile™ and LifeOptions Profile™.

As an academic researcher, she studies gratitude for the related health and well-being benefits of building a positive work environment. She is currently conducting research to identify strategies to support the mental health and well-being of nurses, managers and support staff: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 in collaboration with James Cook University (Australia) and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. First publication: Gratitude interventions to improve well-being and resilience of graduate nurses transitioning to practice: A scoping review. In 2019, Linda conducted a Gratitude Intervention Study, which resulted in statistically significant improvements (p<0.001) in employee engagement and meaningfulness of work.

Linda is the author of Gratitude Heals® ~ A Journal for Inspiration and Guidance and writes a feature series on gratitude for the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly. Her TEDx Talk, The Power of Gratitude to Heal the World, was released in December 2022.

She is an Affiliate Member of IOC at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and a member of the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI). She is a member of the Global International Coach Federation (ICF) and the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). Linda received her degree in Health Education from Virginia Tech and has completed coursework pursuing an M.S. in Negotiation and Conflict Management at the University of Baltimore.