Empowering Women Leaders
Keep your best women—and promote them with confidence.
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CB3 Connections provides private 1:1 executive performance coaching for senior women leaders and founder‑CEOs who already lead teams. We focus on the high‑stakes moments when scope, authority, and visibility expand, so that promotions stick, teams deliver, and your most critical roles don’t turn into vacancies.
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Led by Cerissa “Cece” Burden, an Executive Performance Partner with 20+ years advising senior leaders, presidential appointees, and NATO-leaders, and a master’s in Organizational Development and Conflict Resolution, and creator of The Self‑Selection Shift—CB3 Connections helps you:
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Make top women visibly ready for bigger roles, with clearer authority, a stronger strategic voice, and fewer “Is she ready?” conversations.
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Strengthen the performance of the teams they lead through clear expectations, alignment, and real accountability.
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De‑risk succession by developing emerging leaders before transitions hit, so you’re not scrambling.
If you’re investing in women whose leadership you cannot afford to lose, start with a 30‑minute People & Performance Diagnostic.​
Meet Our Founder
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
Meet Cerissa “Cece” Burden
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I’ve spent more than 25 years in rooms where the stakes were high, the politics were real, and the margin for error was thin: advising owners, senior leaders, presidential appointees, and NATO‑leadership on how to make harder calls, run stronger teams, and stay steady under pressure.
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Over and over, I saw the same pattern: high‑capacity women carrying critical work, cleaning up messes, and quietly holding organizations together… while hesitating to step fully into promotions, visibility, or the hardest people decisions. They were essential, but not always seen—or supported—as the next in line.
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With a master’s in Organizational Development and Conflict Resolution, I now work directly with those women and the organizations betting on them next. My coaching is built for inflection points like promotions, expanded scope, scale, and succession—where leadership, team performance, and politics collide.
Clients bring me in when:
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A key woman leader is stepping into a bigger role and “we can’t afford for this to go sideways.”
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A founder‑CEO needs her leadership bench to catch up to the growth of the business.
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A high‑performing woman is essential, but her team, boundaries, or conflict patterns are putting her at risk.
My work is confidential, and focused on results you can see: women who are visibly ready for what’s next, teams that perform with less drama, and successions that feel planned—not panicked.
If that’s the kind of transition you’re navigating, it would be an honor to talk.
