Tim Burke knows a thing or two about leadership.Over the last two years, the now-retired Omaha Public Power District executive has tackled challenges like helping customers in 13 counties navigate a pandemic, working around the clock as extreme cold threatened the power grid and helping the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce chart an economic recovery. He retired July 1 from his position as CEO of OPPD.And as conversations about racial equity gripped the nation after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Burke immediately engaged his nearly 2,000 employees.”When I think about anti-racism, it’s really an opportunity to be self-reflective as an individual, but also as an organization or institution,” Burke said. “You can look kind of anywhere, and you see that racism element come to play.”Burke started engaging on the topic in earnest after white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va. and kept…
