Helping People Navigate Life's Inevitable Disruptions
Because the moments that change us rarely come with instructions.
Through powerful storytelling, evidence-informed insights, and years of conversations with experts and people whose lives have been forever changed, I help audiences become more grief-fluent, emotionally resilient, and better equipped for life's inevitable disruptions.
Grief is the one universal human experience no one teaches us how to navigate
We learn to lead, communicate, solve problems, and perform under pressure.
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But when loss arrives, most of us don't know what to say, or how to show up.
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Grief isn't tidy, and it doesn't stay at home. It enters our workplaces, schools, hospitals, families, and communities. It touches every aspect of our lives.
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I help humans and organizations become more grief-fluent, equipping them with the language, confidence, and compassion to navigate life's hardest moments with humanity and connection instead of awkward avoidance.
Meet Nina
fostering a more grief-fluent, hopeful world
Drawing on lived experience, professional grief care training, and years of interviewing leading voices in grief and human connection, she equips audiences with practical tools to become more grief-fluent and better prepared for life's most difficult moments.
Audiences leave with:
Language for the Unspoken
Grief-informed language that empowers supportive communication that fosters connection. No platitudes.
Perspective
Understanding grief is a normal, human response to loss and
life-altering change.
Practical Tools
Simple, evidence-informed
ways to support others, and
foster connection.
More Hope. Less Fear.
People leave
feeling less alone
and more equipped.
Signature Talks
The Power of
Grief Fluency
Ideal for: Conferences, healthcare, nonprofits, universities, leadership, and community organizations.
Helping people navigate life's inevitable disruptions with greater compassion, confidence, and hope. Grief touches every workplace, family, and community, yet few of us are ever taught how to respond. This keynote explores what it means to become grief-fluent and why that skill transforms not only how we navigate our own losses, but how we lead, communicate, and care for one another.
Holding Space:
The Art of Grief-Fluent Conversations
Ideal for: Podcasters, journalists, producers, storytellers, creators, communications professionals, educators, facilitators, and media organizations.
Creating conversations people trust, especially when the stories are hard to tell. The most meaningful conversations require more than great interview skills. They require presence, emotional intelligence, and the ability to hold space without trying to fix, rescue, or rush the moment. Drawing from years of hosting deeply personal conversations on Grief and Lightâ„¢, this session explores how grief-fluency strengthens interviewing, storytelling, audience trust, and ethical communication.
Grief in the Workplace
Ideal for: HR professionals, managers, leadership teams, corporate events, non-profits, and employee resource groups.
Building resilient, grief-literate spaces. Grief doesn't clock out at the office door. Employees experiencing loss are often return to work without the support or language they need. This session equips leaders and teams with practical strategies for creating grief-informed workplace cultures that strengthen trust, belonging, psychological safety, and resilience.
The Power of the Pause & Pivot
Ideal for: Creative professionals, podcasters, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, conference audiences, women in leadership, organizations navigating change, and anyone facing a season of transition.
Why knowing when to pause and pivot may be your greatest catalyst for growth. In a culture that rewards constant productivity, pausing can feel like falling behind. Yet the most meaningful personal and professional transformations often begin when we create space to reflect, realign, and choose a new direction. This keynote explores how intentional pauses can become powerful pivot points, helping individuals, leaders, and creative professionals navigate change with greater clarity, resilience, and purpose. Through personal stories and practical insights, audiences learn how stepping back isn't giving up; it's often the first step toward building a more sustainable, aligned, and impactful future.
Understanding
Sibling Loss
Ideal for: Conferences, healthcare, mental health, higher education, grief organizations, and community audiences.
Navigating a deeply life-altering loss that is often overlooked, minimized, or misunderstood. Sibling loss is one of the most under-recognized forms of grief, yet it reshapes identity, memory, family systems, and a person’s sense of the future in profound ways. This session explores the unique emotional landscape of sibling loss, including disenfranchised grief, shifting family dynamics, and the lifelong nature of this bond. Drawing from both lived experience and years of conversations with bereaved siblings around the world, this talk creates language for a grief that is often left unspoken. It offers validation, understanding, and a deeper recognition of how sibling loss continues to evolve across a lifetime.
Post-Traumatic Growth:
Beyond Survival
Ideal for: Conferences, healthcare organizations, universities, nonprofits, leadership events, mental health professionals, and audiences navigating change, adversity, or major life transitions.
How meaning, resilience, and hope can emerge after life's greatest challenges. Post-traumatic growth is not about finding a silver lining or suggesting that suffering is necessary for growth. It's the research-backed understanding that, while trauma and profound loss can permanently change us, they can also create opportunities for deeper meaning, stronger relationships, renewed purpose, and a greater appreciation for life. Blending evidence-informed insights, lived experience, and years of conversations with leading experts and individuals whose lives have been transformed by adversity, this keynote explores what post-traumatic growth is, and what it isn't. Audiences leave with a compassionate framework for navigating change that honors grief, embraces resilience, and makes space for hope without minimizing pain.
Beyond the Stage
Meaningful conversations are not limited to a podium
Sometimes it begins with clay in your hands, music in the background, or a room full of people finally realizing they're not alone.
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I love co-creating thoughtful, heart-centered experiences that invite connection, curiosity, and honest conversation.
So what are we
co-creating?
Here are some ideas that feel effervescent:
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I'm thinking intimate dinners, fireside chats, retreats, Happy-Sad Hours, sound baths, creative workshops (music, art, ceramics, etc.), panel conversations, virtual or community gatherings, or anything that we feel sparks joy.
Every experience is thoughtfully designed around your audience, your goals, and the kind of conversation you want to invite into the room.
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Because sometimes what people need most is permission to be human.