Grief-Informed Leadership Starts Here
I help healthcare teams, educators, and mission-driven organizations navigate grief, burnout, trauma exposure, and major life transitions with research-backed tools, powerful storytelling, and practical strategies that strengthen culture and connection.
Work with me
Dr. Korie Leigh, PhD is an Associate Professor, thanatologist, and child development specialist who helps teams and communities build grief-informed cultures with practical tools for navigating loss and burnout in life’s hardest moments.
What organizations leave with
A grief-informed culture employees can feel
Practical language for hard conversations
Tools to reduce burnout and secondary trauma
Resilience skills that work in high-stress environments
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Keynote & Corporate Speaking
Grief, stress, and major life transitions don’t stay at home, they show up in every workplace. I deliver keynotes for healthcare teams, educators, and mission-driven organizations that blend research, real-world experience, and story to strengthen resilience, communication, and workplace culture.
Workshops & Trainings
These interactive trainings offer trauma-informed tools for supporting grief, burnout, and emotional complexity in real time. Teams leave with clear language, usable frameworks, and practical strategies they can implement immediately.
Individual & Family Support
I offer a limited number of support sessions for pregnancy loss (TFMR, stillbirth, and infant loss), and grief support for children, teens, and adults.
My speaking is grounded in the same work I bring to families, clinicians, and educators, translating grief science into real-life tools.
Previously invited to present for: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals • Stanford Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital • Kaiser Oakland • San Francisco General Hospital (and others)
Now Available!
Dr. Leigh’s New Book
It Wont Ever be the Same: A Teens Guide to Grief and Grieving
Help young people name, express, and give shape to their grief with this book on grieving for teens.
Whether teens are in the midst of their first grief experience or have experienced grief before, It Won't Ever Be the Same is designed to support them. Reflections, analogies, and suggested activities within the pages guide teens in working through and making sense of their personal and complex grief experiences, and words and artwork from other grieving teens help them feel less alone and more connected.
It Won't Ever Be the Same is a validating and reassuring book that speaks directly to teens experiencing grief, providing them with tools to understand, express, and cope. Written by grief counselor Dr. Korie Leigh, the book touches upon big milestones in the grief journey, starting with new grief and continuing through the days, weeks, months, and years after. Each chapter ends with a Give It a Try activity idea to help teens build an understanding of what they're going through. Other moments throughout invite teens to reflect on a specific question or experience, tune in to what they're feeling, or try out a new way of viewing or being in their grief. Appropriate for teens, parents, caregivers, healthcare professionals, teachers, counselors, and librarians.
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