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Lunch & Learn: Embracing Burnout with Dr. Kate Steiner
January 23 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Step away from the grind and into a restorative Friday Lunch & Learn on January 23 from 12:00–1:00 PM at Starr Hill Pilot Brewery & Side Stage, designed to help you reset, refocus, and recharge.
Join us for Embracing Burnout with Dr. Kate Steiner, presented in partnership with the Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council (RBTC). Enjoy lunch on us, purchase mocktails from a special event menu (with additional drinks available for purchase from Starr Hill Brewery), and spend your midday learning how to actually navigate burnout — not just push through it.
Dr. Steiner, author of Feeling Crispy?, will share a practical, research-backed approach to recognizing burnout, building resilience, and creating space for meaningful self-care — even when work demands feel nonstop.
Bonus: Copies of Feeling Crispy? will be available for purchase at the event.
What You’ll Take Away
- Elevate Your Productivity and Career Longevity: Participants will gain access to research-backed strategies that enhance productivity and help them maintain a successful career.
- Craft Your Personal Burnout Action Plan: Participants will design a personalized roadmap to effectively observe, strategize, and recover from burnout events.
- Define Your Boundaries for Work-Life Integration: Participants will identify and establish the personal boundaries necessary to support a harmonious work-life balance.
About Dr. Kate Steiner
Dr. Kate Steiner is a burnout recovery expert, counselor, and the founder of LIFT Wellness Consulting. As a licensed mental health counselor, she helps professionals move from burnout to recovery by creating self-reflective, practical plans that support well-being across every area of life.
She holds a Master of Counseling from Idaho State University and a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Wyoming. Her work is grounded in the Steiner Self-Reflective Sustainability and Wellness (SSRSW) model, a research-based framework she developed from both academic study and her own experience with burnout.
With more than 17 years of experience researching wellness and burnout, Dr. Steiner has been featured in outlets including Thrive Global, Authority Magazine, The LIST, Daytime Blue Ridge (NBC), Bloom TV (WTTA), FOX Good Day Washington, and MyFitnessPal, as well as industry publications Essentials and Perspectives Magazine. She also hosts The From Burnout to Recovery Show with Dr. Kate podcast.
Tickets
Lunch is included with registration. Drinks available for purchase.
- $20 — AAF Members, RBTC Members, Ad 2 Members
- $30 — Non-Members
Sponsored by the Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council (RBTC).
Take a break, enjoy lunch, and invest in yourself. Register for the Lunch & Learn below.