Keynote
Invite Lorene M. Burkhart to speak at your next meeting or event.
When Lorene is hired to speak for a keynote, you get a true pro at center stage. Her extensive business experience includes teacher, broadcaster, writer/publisher and marketing/public relations. Her career spans 40 years and features many notable achievements, which in their time broke traditional business boundaries. From becoming a female executive before the phrase “glass ceiling” was coined. Her lively presentations are memorable, inspiring and tailored for your audience.
To inquire about Burkhart speaking at your next event contact Rae Hostetler at 317-733-8700.
Download Lorene’s bio here.
Lorene’s speech topics include…
Make Your Life a Bestseller
Burkhart has led a page turning life from growing up on a farm on southern Indiana to breaking the glass ceiling in the business community to becoming a thoughtful entrepreneur. At the age of 74 she hasn’t slowed founding a new business Burkhart Network—products and books focused on the written word—and maintaining an active community service lifestyle. Burkhart shares what she learned in her seven decades to lead life a page at a time creating a memorable best seller.
Recording Your Life for the Next Generation
Family history and generational stories are an important part of where we were then, who were are today and where we are going in the future. Burkhart has recorded her family memories growing up on a farm in Southern Indiana two books. Burkhart shares her process, lessons learned and tales of patience in this talk designed for genealogy buffs who want to turn their research into stories that will last for generations.
Your Doctor Patient Relationship: 7 Tips to Cure What Ails You
If you think you have a great relationship with your doctor, think again. As the medical revolution continues, it’s up to us—the patient—to become a better consumer for our doctors. But how do we do it?
Burkhart, author of Sick of Doctors? Then Do Something About It! A Prescription for Patient Empowerment offers a unique viewpoint on the topic of doctor patient relationships. This 75-year-old woman spent five years researching the healthcare system and interviewing healthcare experts to learn how she, herself, could become a better patient. Discover her ah-ha moments and insights. Her dynamic presentation gives the audience seven useful and practical tips to help build better relationships with healthcare providers.
Past Speaking Engagements
Patient Power Panel
Monday, Nov. 1, 2010
11:30 to 1 p.m.
IUPUI Campus Center, Room 409
Free and open to the public
Discussion will be moderated by Barbara Lewis, host of WFYI’s Sound Medicine and Inside Indiana Business.
Featuring:
- Dr. Lee Learman, MD, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indiana University School of Medicine
- Dr. Deborah Stiffler, Ph.D., RN, CNM, Executive Director Indiana University National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
- Author Lorene Burkhart, Sick of Doctors? Then Do Something About It! A Prescription for Patient Empowerment
View a video of Lorene M. Burkhart speaking at this event
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Festival of Books
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010
5:30 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
Free and open to the public
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Women Like Us, Agents of Change
Oct. 13, 2010
Columbia Club, Indianapolis
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Lorene shares her story to inspire and motivate other women to become agents of change.
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Patient Power: Tips to Become an Empowered Patient
Aug. 19, 2010
7 p.m.
Red Room, Bartholomew County Public Library
Columbus, Indiana
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Cancer Survivors Symposium
Cancer Support Community
Friday, June 4, 2010
9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Fairbanks Hall on the Canal
Lorene shares her story of courage and hop during a cancer survivor panel also featuring Deanna Dewberry of WISH-TV.
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Country Fair at Conner Prairie
Lorene will sign her adult non-fiction titles and children's book series, Raccoon Tales!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Noon to 3 p.m.
Free with general admission
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Ivy tech Speakers Series
Saturday, September 19, 2009
3 to 5 p.m.
NMC Auditorium
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Indiana Library Federation Annual convention
Using the modern Conveniences of Today's Libraries to Reveal the Past
November 20, 2008, 10:30 a.m.
Booksigning: 2:30 p.m.
Indianapolis Convention Center
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An Evening of Authors
Benefiting Riley Hospital for Children
September 26, 2008
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United Way Central Indiana
Women's Leadership Series
2008-09 Moderator
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