Bring Dr. Gigi Burke Into Your Space
Gigi Burke, PhD is an Integration Strategist who works primarily with Black and Brown women navigating perimenopause and menopause. Her work examines the relationship between what is happening within a person and the conditions, expectations, and systems surrounding them.
Gigi speaks in spaces where people are expected to keep functioning, choosing, responding, and taking responsibility while something important is changing. Her talks examine what happens when a person's needs or capacity shift while expectations remain the same, as well as how changing environments shape what people notice, understand, choose, and take on.
Grounded in lived experience and informed by interdisciplinary work in higher education, public and environmental health advocacy, financial services, and emotional support in digital contexts, Gigi brings both intellectual depth and practical insight to her speaking. She moves between ideas and lived experience, helping audiences recognize themselves in what is being named while making larger patterns and connections easier to see.
Her speaking extends beyond perimenopause and menopause to broader questions about what people require to live and function in environments that are changing, unfamiliar, demanding, or not designed to support them. Her work pays particular attention to the relationship between expectation, environment, human capacity, and lived reality.
Here's Her Signature Talks
What Is Changing While You Are Still Expected to Function
When something in you has shifted, but nothing around you has
This talk explores what happens when changes in the body, energy, capacity, and sense of self begin to alter how you move through your life while the expectations around you remain the same.
With particular attention to Black and Brown women navigating perimenopause and menopause, Gigi examines what becomes visible when changing capacity and unchanged expectations no longer fit together.
What's Really Shaping Choice
How conditions shape response, responsibility, and action
Choice doesn't happen in a vacuum. What we notice, understand, choose, and take responsibility for is shaped by the conditions in which we are making those choices.
Gigi explores how fast moving, technologically mediated environments shape attention, response, and responsibility, revealing how people can find themselves taking on responsibilities or responding to expectations without fully recognizing what is shaping their actions.
Short Reflections From Past Audiences
"Dr. Burke, thank you so much for your insights and excellent presentation! We learned a great deal from you about why we need to take care of ourselves."
"Thank you for presenting and sharing your insights. You were great!"
"THANK YOU for acting as a guest speaker at the EWB-Atlanta Chapter meeting. I greatly enjoyed your presentation and teaching style."
"I was most struck by the biological and physiological intelligence and explanations in your presentation. I was fascinated by how much you knew and communicated. The reality of the information you presented is helpful to me as I try and help others be more emotionally intelligent too many people that grew up thinking that emotions have no place in the working world."
Exploring a Speaking Invitation
If you are considering bringing this kind of grounded, honest conversation into your space, you are welcome to reach out.
Whether you are planning a retreat, conference, workshop, classroom, or intimate gathering, we can explore what might be supportive for your community. There is no assumption and no pressure. Just a conversation to see if it feels like a good fit.
You can use the form below to share a little about your event. I read each inquiry carefully and will respond if it feels aligned.
Speaking Inquiry Form