Anna Burgan joins Regina Huber to explore the often-overlooked connection between people strategy, leadership preparedness, and business performance. Drawing from her background in enterprise sales and her own experience as a working parent, Anna explains why organizations struggle to retain talent during major life transitions and how the lack of clear frameworks creates costly gaps in leadership, continuity, and employee support. The conversation dives into the assumptions managers make about working parents, why flexibility without structure can backfire, and how proactive planning can strengthen both retention and performance outcomes across teams.
This episode also unpacks what actually makes leadership training change behavior instead of simply creating awareness. Anna shares how she helps organizations build practical frameworks for managers, create stronger alignment between leadership and line management, and standardize support without losing the human element. We discuss the role of culture, accountability, and top-down leadership in scaling these efforts, along with the growing challenges organizations face as workplace expectations evolve. The result is a conversation about building workplaces that support both business continuity and sustainable career growth in a way that benefits employees and organizations alike.
About Anna Burgan:
Anna Burgan from the UK is an award-winning commercial leader and founder with 15+ years of experience across enterprise sales, business development and workforce training, working with global organizations to drive adoption, engagement and performance.
Throughout her career, she has operated at the intersection of commercial growth and people strategy — leading complex client relationships, supporting large-scale implementations and delivering training that helps teams perform in real-world conditions.
She’s also played an active role in building inclusive workplace initiatives, including the implementation of a successful ERG in a previous role, focused on practical support, leadership engagement and sustainable culture change.
Her work today is driven by a clear mission: to make meaningful, cross-sector impact by helping organizations retain talent, develop confident managers and build workplaces that work for people through all stages of life.
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