Patrick Riecke
99% of attendees say they benefited from Patrick’s presentation.
Patrick Riecke helps professionals navigate trauma, burnout, and grief.
For more than a decade, he served as the director of dignity and spiritual care at a large health system. During his tenure, he was also the chairperson for the ethics committee. His teams responded to more than 15,000 patient deaths and fielded more than 500 clinical ethics consults.
Patrick is a burnout survivor and expert. He brings awareness to the burnout epidemic for leaders and coworkers alike.
Prior to his time in healthcare, he worked as a congregational leader for twenty years. He served as a youth and family pastor, church planter, and senior minister.
Patrick is a published author, speaker, and coach. He is an ethics professor at Indiana University.
His education includes a masters degree from Cincinnati Bible Seminary and a graduate certificate in diversity and inclusion from Cornell University.
Kristen Riecke
Kristen Riecke is a special consultant to professionals working to support people experiencing the unique pain of losing a child. Kristen and Patrick have four living children and one already in heaven. Kristen is a graduate of Johnson University, and has served families experiencing this kind of loss for more than twenty years. Her work includes both community and hospital-based bereavement efforts. She has led support groups for pregnancy loss, infant loss, and pregnancy after a loss. She also created a program that pairs volunteers with moms experiencing stillbirth, called Kindred Hearts. Her personal experience of pregnancy loss came when she and Patrick lost their first son, Stephen, in 2000.
She is the author of No Matter How Small: Understanding Miscarriage and Stillbirth.
In addition to this her role as a special consultant, Kristen is the administrative leader, social media manager, and event planner for Riecke Consulting.
