The Burton Leadership Center is a 28-acre facility near Kansas City, Missouri. It features a Leadership Course designed to develop organizational and personal leadership. It features a unique acceleration experience involving a sequence of challenging initiatives designed to build confidence by applying leadership skills. Visit the Burton Leadership Center for your acceleration event or organizational retreat.

At The Burton Leadership Center, our goal is simple - to create learning experiences that make a real difference in people's lives and work. We approach the process of accelerated development differently. People come to programs to be fully engaged and to hear something new - to ask new questions, hear about new possibilities, and create new solutions. Our learning environment encourages people to feel free to take risks, share both successes and failures, and say what's on their minds. Our programs are designed to raise the level of dialogue beyond the mundane. We encourage innovative thinking and consciously avoid talking head formats that limit interaction.

If you want to experience learning in an entirely new way, we invite you to The Burton Leadership Center.

There are several recurring beliefs throughout our programs and projects. So much in fact, we have fashioned them to be our seven principles of learning. We use them as a gauge to measure the success of our experiences. Here they are

1. Accelerated Development involves both support and challenge. You'll be encouraged to take risks, question assumptions and fully engage in the learning process.   2. Accelerated Development involves changing both thinking and action. You'll examine your own beliefs and consider new perspectives.   3. Accelerated Development is an ongoing process of self-discovery. . The Center's learning experiences will help you become more self-aware, gaining understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, values and beliefs.   4. Participants need to feel that the learning experience is both relevant to their situation and authentic to them as a person. The Center's learning experiences will strive to relate the material directly to your own experiences.   5. Learners and faculty should be involved as equal contributors in the learning process. The Center's learning experiences are designed to encourage you to become full partners in co-creating the learning experience.   6. Accelerated Development is a social activity and happens best in the context of a trusting community. The Center's learning experiences provide a friendly, welcoming environment and strive to build personal connections and a sense of community among participants.   7. Accelerated Development experiences should surprise and delight participants. The Center's learning experiences are fun, interesting and meaningful.