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We Are Inspired By This BOSS "Black History Women Leaders": Ursula Burns

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Women Leader: Ursula Burns Company: Xerox Corporation Position: Chairman & CEO Website: Xerox.com Recognition: She is 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. [1] In 2009, Forbes rated her the 14th most powerful woman in the world. [2] Quote: “Where you are is not who you are” Source of quote: http://bneff10.wordpress.com/from-the-projects-to-the-business-world-ursula-m-burns/  Bio: Ursula M. Burns is chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation.  Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern and later assumed roles in product development and planning. From 1992 through 2000, Burns led several business teams including the office color and fax business and office network printing business. In 2000, she was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, heading up manufacturing and supply chain operations. She then

We Are Inspired By This BOSS: Crystal Wright

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Crystal Wright is a self-help author, educator, motivational speaker and coach to professional women and teen girls. She is known as the Empowerment Diva and a woman who helps people get unstuck––a job she finds particularly satisfying as she doles out each piece of advice with a healthy dose of tough love and expectation. Born January 13, 1958, she grew up in Tacoma, Washington. After high school she attended more than a few colleges while trying to figure out what she was going to do with the rest of her life, when a guidance councilor at the University of Washington identified her as the perfect candidate for a summer internship at Xerox. Not the least bit interested at first, she still managed to win the appointment in field of over 50 students. That internship ended with an offer of full-time employment and she spent five years as an account executive where she says, I learned everything I needed to know, to strike out on my own.” In March, 1986 Crystal Agency was born,