Have Gigi speak on your next virtual or in-person event!
Dr. Gigi Burke is a Wellbeing Strategist, Emotional & Psychological Safety Consultant, Founder, and Space Exploration Enthusiast. She specializes in helping Black & Brown Women in their entrepreneurial and leadership journeys, stop self-silencing their anger and other challenging emotions with more ease.
Her big, hairy, audacious goal is to someday cultivate optimal structures and systems that support the wellbeing of those living on the Moon, Mars, Europa or Titan. For now, she's happy to do this with organizations here on Earth.
She is an award-winning speaker who aims to inspire Black and Brown women to transform their perspectives on wellbeing and work. She has appeared on podcasts, presents at conferences, and leads workshops and retreats for groups and organizations. She continuously seeks creative ways to invite audiences to connect with and channel their emotions and feelings. And is just as comfortable speaking virtually as she is on stage.
One of her superpowers is seamlessly integrating concepts that appear, on the surface, to be disparate and dull concepts into palatable and practical tips and techniques. Coupled with her quirks and sense of humor, audiences are treated to an edutaining experience.
Gigi has worked behind the scenes of conferences, job fairs, executive training, and retreats. She understands the intricacies of producing high quality events that will leave your audiences feeling refreshed and/or reinvigorated. She will do her part to make your event one for the history books.
Here's Her Signature Talks
Emotional Intimacy: The True EI That Helps You Work Anger With More Ease
Anger, it's the emotion you've been trained, whether you realize it or not, to hate feeling. Nobody wants to be overwhelmed. Nobody wants to feel frustrated, irritated, annoyed or full-on rage. Nobody wants to feel terrible because of an outburst. Nobody wants to feel the psychological and physical discomfort that comes with holding it in. Sounds like being between a rock and a hard place when it comes to anger, but it doesn't need to be.
What's needed isn't more emotional intelligence, it's more emotional intimacy to let anger work for you instead of against you. Emotional intimacy is mostly discussed in the context of relationships with others. Here, Gigi shares how being emotionally intimate with yourself helps you to experience and express your anger without overwhelm. Experience and express it without guilt, embarrassment or shame that you've learned to associate with anger. So you can navigate the challenges and demands of entrepreneurship and leadership with more clarity, courage and confidence.
Will: The Missing Ingredient In Emotionally & Psychologically Safe Work Environments
The psychological contract has been broken due to dramatic changes in the workplace over the past few years, including the shift between in-person and online work, changing nature of work itself, the mass exodus of women from the workforce, the changing political landscape, and the evolving needs and desires of organizations' leadership.
The good news is you can create and implement a new psychological contract. A strategic, sustainable imperative that demonstrates genuine care for the wellbeing of your people. Allowing you to foster environments that enable growth, innovation, and success. To do this requires that you start with a key ingredient often overlooked in cultivating emotional and psychological safety in your workplace, that is will. In this talk, Gigi delves deep into the critical role of will in the workplace and offers actionable insights that you, as leaders, can implement to cultivate and maintain a strong sense of will.
Gigi offers customized talks to meet your specific requirements. Contact her for further information.
What Organizers and Attendees are Saying
"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."
Past Speaking Appearances
Bold Voices Podcast: How to Overcome Fear With Business and New Opportunities
First Annual EQ With A Difference International Conference
The Brilliance Interview Series with Li-Min Huang
Mastering
The Sales Game Podcast with Susan McVea
Spark Your Vision Experience with Adele Wang
Life Lessons Over Lunch Career Networking Group
Society of Emotional Intelligence Annual Conference
The Dr. Hank Show On Blog Talk Radio Podcast
Engineers Without Boarders- Atlanta Professional Chapter
Southeast Regional Engineers Without Boarders Conference
Association for Talent Development-Atlanta Chapter, Career Development Special Interest Group