When Grief Makes Leadership Feel Impossible
If you're a tech leader trying to guide your team while your own world has been turned upside down, you're not alone—and you don't have to figure this out by yourself.
You're a leader facing one of life's inevitable challenges. Whether you're navigating personal loss, organizational change, or supporting a team member through difficult times, you need practical guidance that honors both the person and the work that still needs to get done.
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Every year, 1 in 10 of your team members will face significant loss or major life change—the death of a loved one, a divorce, a health crisis, job transition, or organizational restructuring. When it happens, you're suddenly responsible not just for project delivery, but for leading with humanity during someone's most vulnerable moment.
Most leadership training treats these as rare exceptions or delegates them to HR. You're left to figure it out on your own, often making well-intentioned mistakes that can damage trust, hurt your team member, or derail important work.
This Training Is For You If...
You're Leading Through Personal Loss or Change
You've experienced a significant loss or major life transition but still need to show up for your team. You're struggling to balance your own healing with your leadership responsibilities, and you need frameworks for leading effectively while processing difficult change.
You're Supporting Someone Through a Crisis
Someone on your team is going through a difficult time, and you want to support them without saying the wrong thing or creating additional stress. You need practical tools for maintaining team productivity while showing genuine care.
What Makes This Different
For Leaders, Not HR
This isn't corporate policy training. It's practical guidance for the person who needs to make day-to-day decisions about workload, deadlines, and team dynamics.
Change-Resilient Systems
Learn to build teams and processes that can handle inevitable human crises and organizational changes without becoming brittle or inhumane.
Evidence-Based Frameworks
Every recommendation is grounded in grief research, change management theory, and ethical leadership principles—not just good intentions.
Actionable Tools
You'll get specific scripts, decision trees, and frameworks you can use immediately—whether you're planning a difficult conversation or adjusting sprint capacity.
What You Get
5 Self-Paced Training Modules covering everything from building change-resilient teams to communicating with stakeholders during capacity shifts
Sustainable Pacing with each module unlocking 24 hours after you complete the previous one, letting you implement the frameworks at a sustainable pace while processing grief.
12 Practical Templates & Worksheets including handoff documentation, capacity planning frameworks, and stakeholder communication scripts
Fieldway Studio Access where you can ask questions, share challenges, and get personalized guidance as you implement these approaches
Lifetime Access to all course materials and updates as new research emerges
You'll Learn How To
Understand why your brain feels different and what to expect during recovery
Communicate with your team about your situation without losing their confidence
Manage your energy and capacity while maintaining your leadership effectiveness
Build the professional support network that makes everything sustainable
Design a recovery timeline that includes your continued leadership growth
Why I Created This Course
After 20+ years of leading teams through crises, layoffs, organizational changes, and personal tragedies, I observed that most leadership training completely ignores the human reality of loss and transition. Leaders are left to figure out how to balance compassion with delivery, often making well-meaning mistakes that hurt both people and results.
This course comes from real experience supporting team members through the death of spouses, parents, and children; helping people lead while navigating their own divorces, health crises, and career transitions; and building team systems that can absorb change and temporary capacity loss without becoming inhumane.
The frameworks are grounded in grief research, change management theory, contractualist ethics, and organizational psychology—because good intentions aren't enough when people are struggling.
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