Getting to know me.

I'm happy to provide you with more information about my background and qualifications so you can understand how I can help you. Please enjoy my personal story and professional bio below.

As a Wellbeing Strategist, Psychological Safety Consultant, Founder, and Space Exploration Enthusiast, I have over two decades of success in helping people heal, learn, grow and transform. However, I experienced undue stress, struggle, sacrifice, and suffering in my entrepreneurship and leadership journeys.

I got caught up in all the wrong ideas about entrepreneurship and leadership, which led to self-doubt, making investments in coaches, consultants, programs that were not right for me, implementing strategies and tactics that were not right for me, comparing myself to others, and chasing after things I thought were the key to success.

Only to feel frustrated, disappointed, and beyond burnout when these didn't work for me.

My expertise in emotional and mental health, career counseling, and organizational development only amplified my feelings of failure when I was unable to translate these skills into business and leadership "success." I was left feeling angry and frustrated, unsure of how to manage these emotions or use them constructively to move through the challenging times.

With compassionate and empathic support, I recognized that I was self-silencing. I learned to stop harming myself this way by allowing my anger to guide and support me. I began to experience the transformative power of acknowledging and working my anger, challenging emotions, and feeling thoughts rather than silencing them. I also started to truly get how unapologetically experiencing and expressing what I am feeling and thinking helps me to effectively navigate the challenges and traumas I experienced as an entrepreneur and leader.

Allowing me to recover and heal from the wounds that I suffered in my journey.

I see so many of Black and Brown choosing to run their own business or leading a team or organization, as a means of creating and controlling our happiness. Yet the way you're going about it has you experiencing high levels of overwhelm, anxiety, stress, depression, and burnout. It has you doing a lot of emotional labor and impression management, to fend off internal and external threats. You may achieve success as defined by economic, social, and cultural standards, but deep down, you're not happy. 

This kind of success isn't worth it if you have to sacrifice your wellbeing to achieve it.

While we share common challenges with women building, growing and sustaining businesses and leading organizations, our unique perspectives and experiences can be overlooked and grouped together, rather than recognized for their intersectionality. While finding solutions that meet our diverse needs and goals is challenging, it is not impossible.

That's why I'm here.

I want to help you experience the joy of being an entrepreneur or leader. This requires putting your wellbeing first. So you get to self-advocate for your needs, wants, and desires sans the fear, guilt, shame or embarrassment.

This involves shifting how you experience and express your anger, challenging emotions, and feelings thoughts as you navigate the challenges, harms, and opportunities of being a solopreneur, entrepreneur or leader. Something that most of us haven't learned to do with self-trust, self- empathy and self-compassion. Something that with the right guidance and support, will become second nature for you.


If you're ready to make one small shift that allows you to stop silencing and start self advocating, and see if we play well together. Go here to schedule a Chemistry Call.  




P.S. I also work with organizations to cultivate trusting, healing, and thriving work environments. To find out more, please go here.    

Official Bio

Dr. Gigi Burke is Wellbeing Strategist, Psychological Safety Consultant, Founder, and Space Exploration Enthusiast.  She helps Black and Brown women building businesses or leading to recover from harmful experiences, reconnect with their wellbeing, and reengage differently or reinvent their professional journey.

She collaborates with leaders who are committed to prioritizing workplace wellbeing by cultivating trusting, healing and thriving work environments. Her wildest dream is to do this work for the people and organizations living and operating on celestial bodies like the Moon, Mars, Europa, or Titan.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she held various counseling and administrative positions in higher education and has worked as a consultant in leadership, learning, and development, creating innovative and award-winning solutions for academia, corporations, and environmental health and sustainability nonprofits.

As an award winning speaker, she aims to inspire Black and Brown women to heal, build and lead from their wellbeing. So that they can self-advocate for needs, wants, and desires unapologetically. So they get to handle the highs, lows, twists and turns of entrepreneurship and leadership with more ease, enjoyment, clarity and confidence. She enjoys talking about leadership as an opportunity to cultivate trusting, healing, and thriving organizations.    

Her work has been published in peer reviewed publications. She has been recognized by the Association for Talent Development, Atlanta Chapter for her leadership of the Career Development Special Interest Group and the Sierra Club Centennial Group for her work on sustainability education. She was also a contributor to the book Hired! Paths to employment in the social media era.

Being immensely curious and a lover of learning, she holds her Doctor of Philosophy in Adult Education, Human Resources and Organizational Development from the University of Georgia, Masters in Counselor Education from The Pennsylvania State University, and her Bachelors in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a certified somatic practitioner who utilizes a salutogenic approach to facilitate learning, change, and growth in individuals and organizations.

When she's not working with you... exploring new worlds, savoring great cuisine, and taking in nature's wonders are among her passions that she pursues.