Grief at Work: Making Room for the Whole Human
Grief comes to work with us. Most workplaces still treat it as private, something to get through fast and alone. People feel unseen, colleagues freeze because they don’t know what to say, and sometimes good people leave.
This lunchtime panel is a space to talk about it openly. We’ll explore why grief is so hard to name at work, what meaningful support looks like, and how each of us can make it a little less taboo.
Grief is welcome here. Come as you are.
Why attend
Sooner or later, most of us will grieve while working, or work beside someone who is.
Hear an author, a coach and two founders speak candidly about grief at work, and bring your own questions.
Leave with practical ideas you can use the next day, with your team or for yourself.
Who it’s for
Employees in full-time roles
Managers and team leads
HR and people leaders
Founders and business owners
Anyone navigating a loss right now
What you’ll get
Shared language for talking about grief at work
Simple ways to show up for a grieving colleague, or for yourself
A clearer picture of what real support from managers and organizations looks like
A new perspective on bringing your whole self to work
Your panelists
Patricia Bravo, founder of the consulting firm Bravo For You and author of In the Room: When Grief Comes to Work. An organizational development strategist, Patricia focuses on workplace empathy, leadership development and grief literacy. She helps leaders, teams and organizations recognize and respond to the personal losses people bring to work, and the professional losses that happen inside organizations.
Sally Revell, executive coach and founder of GenerativeHuman.ai, coaching for AI transformation leaders, and founder of The SWELL Incubator, a women’s founder community. After losing both parents in 2024 and leaving her CMO-level corporate tech identity behind, Sally’s own experience of grief at work led her to live from her values and help others do the same.
Carol Grant, founder of Opolo, an AI-native edtech platform that delivers homework support to neurodiverse middle and high schoolers. A go-to-market strategist and advisor, Carol brings more than twenty years of experience leading go-to-market at Microsoft, Zillow, venture-backed SaaS companies and PE-backed businesses in transformation. She also runs an advisory practice that helps tech companies reset their go-to-market strategy, and leads Agency in Motion, go-to-market and AI upskilling for women entrepreneurs.
Moderated by Amanda Baker, leadership coach and founder of Collaborative Sage. Amanda brings trust-building advisory, workshops and coaching to leaders and teams. Her work in compassionate adult learning spans the Peace Corps, nonprofits and global corporations. Along the way, she has bridged heart and mind to make workplaces more human, and helped leaders influence with confidence in their own voice.