Dr. Karen Gail Lewis, known as a “Relationship Rescuer,” helps couples, adult siblings, friends, and co-workers build a solid bridge across communication gaps. After all, in one way or another, faulty relationships are at the core of most all problem between people.

Audiences love Dr. Lewis's fun and provocative real life stories about family, friendship, and work relationships. Through these stories, they get an inside view into typical problems between people: how problems develop and how they get resolved. Dr. Lewis weaves in lessons about understanding and improving relationships.

Too often, people unintentionally hurt or disappointment someone because they do not understand the differences in how men and women speak and relate. With couples, she has found this causes more than 60% of their problems. She calls for men and women – at work and in their personal lives – to become bi-lingual, learning to speak both “Male-ese” and “Female-ese.”

To avoid the hurts and disappointments, she also nudges listeners to step into the shoes of “the other.” She humorously dramatizes how everyone’s perspective is accurate, which, obviously, leads to conflict. But she doesn’t leave them there; she engages the audience in creative problem-solving that concludes with powerful action plans they can immediately use to improve relationships.

Prolific Writer and Presenter - Dr. Lewis has published numerous books*, cds, and articles on marriage, parenting adult children, friendships, single women, and adult siblings.

Dr. Lewis is a dynamic speaker. Her audiences don’t just sit and listen; she gets them involved. They recognize themselves in her stories, get to reflect on their own lives and how they relate with others. Her provocative points about relationships stretch the mind, providing new perspectives to every day issues. And, audiences leave with ideas about how to enhance these relationships that they can immediately put into use -- at home and at work. Dr. Lewis’s presentations always promise the audiences changes that last long after they pass the exit door.

About Dr. Lewis - A family therapist who has been on faculty of several Universities, Dr. Lewis has been featured in top U.S. newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, and Ladies Home Journal.

She lectures nationally and internationally on topics ranging from Baby Boomers and adult sibling relationships, to the challenges facing couples and empty nesters, to work/life balance and employee relationships, to miscommunication between people who live and work together. She divides her time between her Cincinnati and Washington, D.C. clinical offices. She is available to travel.

FOR WOMEN

• Women’s Friendships – Untapped professional and Personal Potential: Learn how your friendships either motivate you to live a larger life or hold you back.
• Nine Tasks for Taking Control of Your Life – With or Without a Partner.
• Mothers and Daughters and Their Daughters: Discover your generational heritage and take greater advantage of the female strengths in your family.
• 7 Things Single Women ABSOLUTELY Need To Know To Make 2008 The Best Year Ever – With Or Without A Man: This live teleseminar will cover UNSPOKEN TRUTHS about being single in a married world.
• Are You In PMZ? Embrace Your Post-Menopausal ZEST!
• Empty Nexters (No That's Not a Typo) Whether your children are getting older, or you're ready for new  career, or you've passed a significant birthday:  now what do you want to do with your life?

ABOUT MARRIAGE

• Becoming Bi-Lingual: Mastering Male-ese and Female-ese.
• The Secret to a Solid Marriage.: With 60-75% of marital problems rooted in gender-related differences and possible effects of ADD both sexes need a wake-up call to avert a self-made disaster,
• Can You Have An Affair And Not Know It?: Learn about the phenomenon of spouses who have affairs -- not with members of the opposite sex, but with their careers, their hobbies, or other interests that result in alienation from their relationship
• I’ve A Headache" and Other Marital Myths About Love and Sex After 40.
• How to Have An Awful Marriage. A tongue-in cheek talk about what husbands and wives do to each other.
• Mrs. CEO Gets her Pink Slip - Then Finds Her Own Voice. Does this sound familiar? Mrs. CEO, married to a high-powered man, is forced into retirement when her children are grown. How does she find her own voice.

FOR ADULT SIBLINGS, ADULT CHILDREN

• Surprise: Your Childhood Siblings Were Your First Marriage. Patterns (both positive and negative) established back then become framework for how you relate to your spouse.
• To Help Mom and Dad, We Have GOT to Work Together. Understanding problems siblings encounter as they each try to assist their parents in their own way.
• Parents and Their Adult Children: Making the Transition You are a mature adult, but your parents sometimes still treat you as a child. You have grown children, but they sometimes won’t “let go.” Tips for making shift – and improving -- relatioships.

AT THE WORKPLACE

• Dick and Jane Grow Up And Go To Work. Frozen images of your childhood siblings "shadow" you at work. Using the old Reader characters, this is a fun way to see how your siblings help or hinder your work relationships and your competence.
• Removing Your Invisible Elephant: Overcoming Obstacles in Your Life. This fun workshop is presented with the help of THE ANT, a descendent of the ant who moved the rubber tree plant, and her friend, Barbara Baxter, the ventriloquist.

Dr. Lewis has published numerous books*, cds, and articles on marriage, parenting adult children, friendships, single women, and adult siblings. (For a full listing, check out the Books & Audio page.)

* Volume pricing on her books and cds is available.