Dr. Don Bartlette is a full-time public speaker and is by training, a social worker, counselor, consultant, and advocate for minority persons and victims of child abuse, survivors of alcohol addiction, troubled youth, and persons with disabilities. He is a French Canadian Native American. The story he’ll share with you in his keynote address has been told over 10,000 times throughout American and Canada since 1972. You will be riveted to your seat as he talks about the social, psychological, and educational experiences as a Chippewa Indian child growing up with emotional, speech, and physical disabilities in an environment of poverty, family and school violence, juvenile delinquency, homelessness, child abuse, racism, and alcoholism. He’ll tell you how one person in his community helped him to overcome childhood disadvantages and to survive in a multi-cultural world.

Areas of Expertise:  Diversity as I am indigenous & speak about it