Donna K. Burnette first partnered with CoveyLink to build a Discovery Learning simulation based on The Speed of Trust. You can find her speaking on the topics of Trust and Discovery Learning.
Prior to partnering with CoveyLink, Donna was the CEO of Solutions House, whose client base includes Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Eli Lilly, General Motors and others. She also served as Senior Vice President of Operations for Paradigm Learning, where she was a driving force in Paradigm’s revenue growth. Additionally, she designed and implemented systems and processes that provided a foundation to sustain fast growth for the Custom Training Business Unit.
In earlier years, Donna was trained as a re-engineering consultant whose clients included Deutsche bank where she lead process re-engineering workshops for back offices. She was certified as a re-engineering consultant during her career at National Insurance Services where she was first Director of OD and then Vice President of Human Development.
In her fifteen years with General Motors, Donna moved from shop floor employee to a front-line supervisor and into assignments in personnel and training. She was recruited by General Electric and decided the opportunity to facilitate Jack Welch’s “Work-Out” process as Quality and Productivity Leader for two Lighting Plants was an opportunity to embrace.
Donna has an MS Organization Development from Bowling Green State University and a BS in Business Management from Indiana Wesleyan. She taught Organization Development in Indiana Wesleyan’s Executive Development program. She has written featured articles in several trade publications. She also contributed an article, “Complex Organizational Change Through Discovery-based Learning,” to the book A Treasure Chest of Six Simga.