Invite Dr. Gigi Burke to Speak
Dr. Gigi Burke is a Wellbeing Partner who walks alongside visionary Black and Brown women leaders. She helps women lead in ways that protect their wholeness and sustain their vision, bringing presence, vitality, and pleasure into the heart of leadership.
Her work is grounded in the belief that wholeness is the foundation of leadership and wellbeing is the strategy that makes it sustainable. With a background in adult education, counseling, somatic practice, and organizational development, she weaves strategy, systems thinking, and care into every space she enters.
As a speaker, Gigi is known for bringing together research, lived experience, and hard-earned wisdom in ways that open new possibilities for leadership and healing. She has spoken at conferences, retreats, universities, and organizations, always leaving audiences with a deeper sense of possibility for how leadership, healing, and growth can flourish together.
Her wildest dream is to help shape and sustain nourishing environments for communities living and working on celestial bodies such as the Moon, Mars, Europa, or Titan. She carries that vision into every talk she gives here on Earth, inviting audiences to imagine what becomes possible when we create systems where people and purpose thrive together.
Here's Her Signature Talks
From Self-Silencing to Self-Advocacy: Rewriting the Rules of Leadership for Black and Brown Women
For generations, Black and Brown women have been told, directly and indirectly, to silence themselves in order to survive and succeed. Leadership has too often demanded strength without softness, presence without truth, and performance without permission to be fully human.
Self-silencing may have protected us, but it comes at a cost. When we mute our emotions, downplay our wisdom, or over perform to belong, we abandon parts of ourselves that are essential for authentic leadership.
This talk explores what it means to move from survival into sovereignty by unlearning self-silencing and stepping into self-advocacy. Gigi weaves stories, reflection, and embodied practice to help women reconnect with their truth, trust their inner wisdom, and advocate for themselves without guilt or apology.
Participants leave with the tools to name what they need, the courage to claim space without shrinking, and the clarity to lead from wholeness rather than performance. Because when women advocate for themselves, they do not just preserve their power, they expand it in ways that transform communities and systems around them.
Balancing Work, Intimacy, and Family Life: Leading Without Losing Yourself
Leadership does not end at the office door. For many women, especially Black and Brown women, the weight of responsibility stretches across every sphere of life. You may be excelling at work while feeling disconnected in your relationships, or giving deeply to family while struggling to sustain your own joy.
This talk explores what it means to bring wholeness into all parts of life, refusing to sacrifice one dimension of yourself for the sake of another. Through stories, reflection, and embodied practice, Gigi helps women reimagine balance not as perfection but as an integrated way of living rooted in authenticity, desire, and sustainable care.
Participants leave with insight into how to release the myth of performance in both work and home life, honor intimacy and family as sources of vitality, create rhythms that integrate rather than fragment, and lead from a place where wholeness guides every role they carry.
Additional Topics
Alongside her signature talks, Gigi also creates keynotes and workshops on themes such as:
Feeling Forward: How Emotion Fuels Wholeness and Leadership
Emotion is not a weakness but a source of wisdom. This session invites women to engage their feelings as guidance and power, showing how emotional presence sustains leadership, deepens trust, and fuels meaningful work.
Leading Through Change Without Losing Yourself
Transitions can pull leaders away from their values and clarity. This talk explores how to navigate change with authenticity, resilience, and grounded presence so women can honor both their growth and their wellbeing during seasons of shift.
Grief-Informed Leadership: Honoring Loss in Life and Work
Grief touches every leader, yet it is often silenced or ignored. This session offers a framework for acknowledging grief as part of leadership, cultivating systems of care, and transforming loss into renewal for self, community, and purpose.
Start the Conversation
She is glad to create customized talks or workshops shaped around the needs of your audience. Use the booking form to start the conversation.
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."
Featured Speaking and Media
•First Annual EQ With A Difference International Conference
•Society of Emotional Intelligence Annual Conference
•Engineers Without Borders Southeast Regional Conference
•Bold Voices Podcast
•The Sales Game Podcast with Susan McVea
•The Brilliance Interview Series with Li-Min Huang