Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir Free Audiobook Download by Ursula Burns

In the early 1980s, Ursula Burns became the first African-American woman to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Now she shares her personal story in Where You Are Is Not Who You Are—a powerful memoir about overcoming adversity and paving your own path as an entrepreneur.

"The things that she was saying and the way she said them are what I most admired about her," says Ursula Burns. "I didn't know who I was at all. So when you go through a transformation, when you transform your work, it's not just a question of changing the clothes you wear or what color your hair is. It's a transformation in how you see yourself inside."

Ursula Burns is the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company, Xerox. In this book, she shares how her upbringing and life experiences shaped both who she was in the world and who she wanted to be. From the struggles of being a young black woman at Xerox to the controversy surrounding her tenure as CEO, Burns takes us on a journey through life with her own unique voice.

Ursula Burns was born in 1956. In 1979, she was a 26-year-old mother and wife of a local politician in New York City when she started her company Xerox at the age of 22. For the next 26 years, Ursula would rise to become CEO as Xerox grew into one of the largest corporations in the world.

Ursula Burns is an African-American businesswoman whose ascent to the pinnacle of corporate America was unprecedented. In Where You Are Is Not Who You Are, Burns shares her personal story of growing up in an urban ghettos as a poor girl who dreamed of being a doctor.

[Burns] has always been a fighter, but unlike many fighters in the world she is not fighting for any cause. Yes, she fights to help others, but she also fights to help herself because she knows that by doing so, she could be helping more people than we think.