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Donna Carpenter- CEO & Co-Owner of Burton Snowboards​​

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Donna Carpenter has been working at Burton for the past 35 years and has held just about every job from dipping snowboards in polyurethane and answering the customer service line, to CEO. She has been instrumental in the company’s growth, expanding Burton’s business to Europe in the 1980s. In more recent years, Donna has shifted from President to CEO, worked to make Burton an employer of choice for women and amped up the company's sustainability and philanthropy efforts. Today she joins us to talk about how she became CEO, her dedication to women in the workplace and how she is spreading the word about sustainability in an effort to help the environment.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's me, Sophia Am Russo, your host of Girl Boss Radio, and we have a great guest coming on today.

0:10.6

Burton's CEO and co-owner, Carpenter is here to talk about how she built Burton

0:16.4

Snowboards, gender equality in the workplace, and more.

0:20.3

But first I want to talk about parachute.

0:23.0

I just placed a huge order on parachute home.

0:26.0

Did you? Yes, I replaced all of my towels, all of my bath mats.

0:30.0

Oh, nice.

0:31.0

I'm so excited.

0:32.0

Oh, oh, and I got sheets. I got like a bunch of linen sheets. Oh, thank goodness.

0:37.0

They're so soft. Yeah, it was time to replace everything, so I just went for it and I'm so glad that I did.

0:44.4

Plus I feel really great about it because Parachute's products

0:47.1

are responsibly made, which means they

0:49.1

surpass the highest level of testing

0:51.6

for harmful chemicals and synthetics. So to sleep like me and walk on

0:57.9

bath mats like me, visit parachute home.com slash girl boss for free shipping and returns on parachute's very comfortable bedding and bath linens.

1:06.8

They also offer a 60 day trial.

1:09.2

So if you don't love your order, sleep in them, send them back.

1:13.7

Again, that's Parachute Home.com

1:15.3

slash Girl Boss for free shipping and returns.

1:17.8

Try parachute today. Success. It's such a complicated idea and yet for so long we've all collectively

1:31.2

subscribe to a single definition of the word, which was

1:34.1

likely given to us by a white-haired dude somewhere in a boardroom in the 1960s, and

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