Book Gigi to bring wholehearted leadership and healing presence to your next event.
Dr. Gigi Burke is a Wellbeing Strategist, Leadership Mentor, Grief Guide, Speaker, and Space Dreamer.
She walks alongside visionary Black and Brown women leaders — entrepreneurs, executives, changemakers, and creatives, partnering with them to lead, build, and vision without abandoning themselves, even in seasons of grief, change, and deep transition.
She also partners with mission-driven organizations to reimagine leadership and wellbeing at the roots, strengthening and cultivating environments where people, purpose, and performance can thrive together.
An award-winning speaker and certified somatic practitioner with a Ph.D. in Adult Education, Human Resource and Organizational Development, Gigi weaves research, storytelling, and embodiment into talks that are both deeply practical and richly soulful. She inspires audiences to embrace their full humanity, face leadership’s challenges with care and courage, and cultivate connection and collective healing.
Her wildest dream? To help design healing-centered communities for life on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Here's Her Signature Talks
From Self-Silencing to Self-Advocacy: Rewriting the Rules of Leadership for Black and Brown Women
Leadership has too often asked Black and Brown women to perform strength, suppress emotion, and shrink themselves to be accepted. This powerful talk explores what it means to unlearn self-silencing, a survival strategy so many of us have internalized, and rise into a way of leading rooted in wholeness, truth, and self-advocacy.
Through storytelling, reflection, and actionable insight, this session invites women to reimagine how they show up in leadership, not by whitewashing their experience or gaslighting their intuition, but by rewriting the rules on their own terms.
When we lead from a place of rooted wellbeing, emotional honesty, and full self-expression, we don’t just protect our power, we expand it.
Feeling Forward: How Emotion Fuels Wellbeing and Meaningful Work
In many workplaces, emotion is still seen as a barrier to professionalism or a risk to productivity. But the truth is, emotion is how people make meaning, build trust, and stay connected to their purpose.
In mission-driven work, where the stakes are high and the impact is deeply personal, emotional wellbeing isn’t a luxury. It’s essential.
In this talk, Gigi invites leaders and teams to feel forward: not just to acknowledge emotion, but to engage it as a source of guidance, clarity, and connection. Because when people feel safe to feel, they also feel safe to contribute, to collaborate, and to lead, in ways that are grounded, authentic, and aligned with who they truly are.
In addition to her signature speeches, Gigi offers fully customized talks to suit your audience. Complete the booking form to discuss your specific needs.
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