Fire Chief (Retired)
Mike Burton
Largo, Florida, United States
Mike Burton, MS, BS, EFO, CFO, is a 46-year veteran of the fire and EMS service. Burton started his career in St. Petersburg, FL. and subsequently served as the fire chief in Grand Rapids, MI; Greenville, NC; Tamarac, FL; and recently retired from the Pinellas Suncoast Fire Rescue District.
Mike is a credentialed Chief Fire Officer through the Center for Public Safety Excellence and serves as a peer reviewer for Chief Fire Officer Candidates for the Center for Public Safety Excellence, Commission on Fire Accreditation International. He serves the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) on their Program Planning Committee for their annual international conference and served six years on the IAFC’s Human Relations Committee.
He holds a master’s degree from Grand Canyon University in Executive Fire Service Leadership, and a bachelor's in Organizational Studies from Eckerd College. He is a graduate of the Executive Fire Officer Program through the U.S. Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency and serves as an instructor at the National Fire Academy.
With support from the National Development & Research Institute, Inc., he also provides training through United In Service, a diverse group of colleagues committed to addressing social justice issues within the fire service.
ELEC-210: Workplace Civility in a Polarized World
Thursday, August 17, 2023
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
COLS-304: A New Approach to Feedback : Moving Beyond the “Annual Misery” of Performance Reviews
Thursday, August 17, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM