Learn Your Leadership Superpower with Irish Burch

About this episode

Irish Burch discusses her journey in leadership within children's advocacy and shares insights for emerging leaders.

In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar welcomes Irish Burch, a longtime Children’s Advocacy Center leader and mentor, to discuss “imperfect” leadership as learning and service. Irish recounts her path from CPS investigator to forensic interviewer, then into leadership roles culminating as CEO of the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, emphasizing that being great at a job doesn’t automatically translate to leading people. Irish shares advice for emerging leaders about balancing miss...

People in this episode

Host: Teresa Huizar

Guest: Irish Burch

Topics covered

• leadership
• children's advocacy
• mentorship
• CPS investigation
• forensic interviewing

Keywords

• leadership
• children's advocacy
• mentorship
• CPS
• forensic interviewing
• service

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center

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