Beth Kirkpatrick is the Director of Education and Advocacy of Heart Zones Inc. She has taught middle school PE in the public schools’ systems in Vinton, Iowa for 20 years Beth is considered the pioneer of wearable technologies – the heart rate monitor – in schools. Previously, she served as the Director of Education for Polar Electro Inc. for 18 years
Beth has been featured on CNN, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Life Magazine, countless magazine and newspaper stories nationwide. Her published work includes one of the first books for using heart rate monitors in physical education titled “Lessons From the Heart.”
Beth has keynoted over 1500 conferences in all fifty states as well as international keynotes in Malaysia, South Africa, Germany, Brazil, China, and Canada.
She has been awarded the Emens Distinguished Professorship at Ball State University, and numerous state and national education awards including the U.S. Department of Education’s Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Award, as well as the US West Outstanding Teacher of the Year for Iowa, and National Association of Sport and Physical Education’s Teacher of the Year for the state and district.
