Dr. Kimberly Ann Lemke, PsyD · Drift® Sleep & Wellness Institute
Psychologist. Entrepreneur.
The speaker Fortune 100 companies
and Am100 law firms trust.
Licensed clinical psychologist. Entrepreneur. Founder of Drift® Sleep & Wellness Institute. The speaker organizations trust when performance, retention, and wellbeing are actually on the line.
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Two businesses built.
20 years in the room.
One framework that changes everything.
Her career has taken her from clinical practice and emergency settings to building and running two businesses at once. What she built from that experience is a framework that reaches the highest levels of business and law. What she brings to every stage is the rare combination of clinical precision, real-world credibility, and the kind of engaging, dynamic presence that commands a room from the first minute and holds it until the last. Attendees leave with tangible takeaways they can use before the day is over.
Who She Is
She has spent 20 years
in the rooms most speakers
only read about.
Your people are working hard. The problem is not effort. It is energy. Fatigue quietly drains performance, decision-making, and morale in ways that don't show up on a report until the damage is already done. Dr. Lemke gives organizations a framework to address it at the root.
What sets her apart from every other speaker on the wellness circuit? She has lived both sides. Dr. Lemke has built and run two businesses simultaneously, a clinical private practice and Drift® Sleep & Wellness Institute, while managing teams, serving clients under pressure, and navigating the same burnout and exhaustion her audiences describe. She is not a researcher presenting data from a distance. She is an operator who figured this out because she had to.
01
The Science Behind the Stage
Most speakers research their topic. Dr. Lemke built hers from thousands of hours sitting across from professionals who were exhausted, burning out, and losing ground at work because they could not sleep. She watched what it cost them. Then she built the framework to stop it. The science she delivers is not borrowed. It is firsthand.
02
She Speaks the Language of Every Room
Legal deadlines. Executive burnout. Hospital shifts. Sales cycles. Industries where a fatigued worker does not just underperform but puts lives at risk: fire, emergency services, mining, and manufacturing. Dr. Lemke has spoken to all of them and understands what is at stake in every room she walks into. Every engagement is customized to the specific pressures, culture, and consequences of your industry.
03
The Rooms She Has Earned
Fortune 100 companies. Am100 law firms. Healthcare systems. International conference stages. First responder organizations. She has built that roster one engagement at a time. The people who book her once bring her back.
04
Organizations Bring Her Back
The true measure of a speaker is the second booking. Dr. Lemke's engagements consistently lead to return invitations, referrals, and expanded programs because what she delivers produces results people can feel and measure.
05
She Connects With Every Room
Direct, dynamic, and disarmingly real. She has the rare ability to make a 500-person conference audience feel like she is talking to each of them personally, while bringing the same commanding presence to an intimate boardroom setting.
"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in."
Desmond Tutu · The philosophy behind the Drift® Method
The Story
She built these tools in the
hardest rooms first.
That's why they work.
Dr. Kimberly Ann Lemke earned her Master's and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, built her career in the most demanding clinical settings available, and then built two businesses from scratch while continuing to practice: a clinical private practice and Drift® Sleep & Wellness Institute, both held to the same standard she applies to everything she does.
She became the director of a behavioral and emotional school for children. She chaired continuing education for the Illinois Psychological Association. She served on mental health boards. She volunteered with the American Red Cross Disaster Action Team, showing up for communities after crisis, when everything had already fallen apart.
In every one of those rooms, she noticed the same pattern: the people who couldn't function, couldn't cope, couldn't recover, couldn't perform, weren't sleeping. Not because they lacked effort. Because nobody had taught them how sleep actually works.
That insight became Drift®. Not a supplement. Not a bedtime routine. A clinically grounded method for understanding why sleep breaks down and what actually rebuilds it.
Today she works with organizations at the highest levels, where the stakes are high, the science is real, and the results speak for themselves.
Education
Master's & Doctorate, Clinical Psychology
Illinois School of Professional Psychology / Argosy University, Chicago · 2004
Author
Published author · Second book forthcoming · Featured in Authority Magazine · Mattress Online (UK) · Walmart Business · Parents Magazine · Fox 32 Chicago · WBBM Newsradio · Obama Foundation · Urban Family Examiner · Enterprising Women · The Bed Buzz
Clinical Background
Hospitals · Emergency Rooms · Outpatient Settings · Private Practice
Director, Behavioral/Emotional School for Children
Specialty Training
CBT-I: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
Sleep Science Coach · Trauma-Informed Practice
Industry Experience
Fortune 100 & Fortune 500 · Am100 Law Firms · Healthcare · First Responders · Financial Services · Corporate Wellness
Leadership Roles
Chair of Continuing Education, Illinois Psychological Association
Secretary & Planning Committee President, Mental Health Board
Community Service
American Red Cross Disaster Action Team · Mental Health Disaster Team · 10-41 Advocate for Emergency Responders · See Nonprofit & Community
Recognition
2020 Enterprising Women of the Year Award Winner
Chartwell Speakers Bureau · Featured Expert, Mattress Online (UK)
As seen & published in
Fox 32
Fox 45 News
WBBM Newsradio
Parents Magazine
Authority Magazine
Mattress Online
Obama Foundation
Urban Family Examiner
Enterprising Women
The Bed Buzz