About

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My name is Matthew Burkett.

I’m a doctoral student in Antioch University’s PhD in Leadership and Change program. My academic work explores questions of leadership, followership, resilience, and how people experience change within organizations.

Better Bound began as a place for me to think out loud. I write to ask questions, challenge my assumptions, and make sense of what I am learning through research, work, and experience.

Professionally, I have more than 20 years of public service, including military service and a career with the federal government. My experience spans program and project management, organizational change, strategic planning, facilitation, and work across complex organizations and partnerships.

Through Better Bound LLC, I bring those two worlds together. I provide research, interviewing and qualitative analysis, writing, facilitation, training, and speaking for organizations working through questions of leadership, people, and change.

At the center of all of it is curiosity.

I want to understand how people and organizations work, why they sometimes don’t, and what might help us do things better.