Ursula Burns on corporate culture
From mPower Moments: On Reaching Your Full Potential with Ursula Burns · · mbamortgage
“The corporate model is white male and we're conforming to the structure built by them. There are rules to the game they wrote the rules. Yes there are Judges referees whatever the hell CE who judge the they are the judges and then they say to us the people who are not like them come play. They didn't say please come play but they said come play because you know we're running out of men because we need some help we need dangerous jobs done whatever the heck it is come play.”
On , Ursula Burns, Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at XEROX HOLDINGS CORP, spoke about corporate culture during mPower Moments: On Reaching Your Full Potential with Ursula Burns on mbamortgage.
About Ursula Burns
Ursula Burns spoke at the Opportunity Network Gala on May 20, 2026. She reflected on her upbringing, describing her mother's advice to "keep looking around" and not let others define one's future. Burns attributed her own success to "a couple of interactions" that made the difference between contributing to society and becoming a "detractor." She urged students to pursue their goals aggressively, stating that "dreams belong to the people who push" and that success involves working through rejection and sacrifice rather than avoiding them.