Keynote

Invite Lorene M. Burkhart to speak at your next meeting or event.

When Lorene is hired to speak, 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 to founding her current company, Burkhart Network, at the age of 73, Burkhart is a trail blazer. Her lively presentations are memorable, inspiring and tailored for your audience.

To inquire about Burkhart speaking at your next event contact Rae Hostetler at 317-829-1740.

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.

Sick of Doctors? Then Do Something About It

A Prescription for Patient Empowerment

Join the patient revolution and change the relationship with your doctor!

Five years of research and interviews led author Lorene Burkhart to develop better relationships with her healthcare providers. She shares her secrets and offers ideas to help people become advocates for their own patient accountability in this dynamic and practical presentation.

Burkhart says we’re all patients from the time we’re born until the day we die. The question is how are we going to take control of our medical life? Her practical tips, insights and personal stories provide lessons on how to navigate the system as a knowledgeable, proactive consumer. This presentation will open the door to new attitudes about healthcare relationships. Attendees will learn to expect more and discover how to get it by becoming proactive and informed medical consumers.

The Doctor Patient Relationship: Insights from the Patient’s Perspective

In this insightful presentation for the medical professionals, Burkhart shares her insights— from a patient perspective. Her new and acclaimed book Sick of Doctors? is the culmination of five years of research and interviews in the medical community. The book has received rave reviews from medical professionals throughout the country (and even has been implemented into coursework for nursing classes).

During this presentation designed for healthcare professionals, Burkhart explores the last century of the healthcare system and medical community, asking and answering the question: How did we get here? She challenges professionals in attendance to encourage patients to be better consumers by providing tips and reminders from the patient perspective. She shares personal stories of great doctor care and insights into low points in her medical relationship history. Professionals will be reminded how they can practically work with patients to provide the best care, information and advice because … doctor may know best, but patients know their own bodies to make their own decisions.