Elaine Yarbrough

Elaine Yarbrough grew up in Texas, coming from a long line of pioneer women. Through education and risk taking, she followed her dreams to graduate school at the University of Kansas and then to Boulder where she taught communication at the University of Colorado from 1975 – 1982. There she received every teaching award given by students and faculty. After leaving the university, she started her own business in organizational development, The Yarbrough Group, ultimately working alongside her husband Mike Burr in more than forty countries. Her daughter, Lindsay Y. Burr, is now CEO of the family company. Elaine’s first books focused on her professional work. Treasures in Traumas is the first illuminating her personal growth through hardship. Daughter Lindsay and granddaughter Zora live in Washington DC. Elaine, Mike, and dogs Daisy and Jenna, live north of Boulder at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.