“Dr. Mia Johnson and Dr. Julia Porter’s book Grief, Trauma, and Leadership is a groundbreaking work that seamlessly blends scholarly research with practical applications for today’s leaders. Their comprehensive approach provides invaluable insight into how grief and trauma impact the workplace. The authors offer strategies to navigate these challenges with empathy and resilience.
In today’s world, the need for this focus and research is more critical than ever. The past few years have been marked by unprecedented events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, social issues, environmental crises, and economic instability. These events have profoundly affected individuals and organizations, highlighting the importance of understanding and addressing grief and trauma in the workplace.
Together, Dr. Johnson and Dr. Porter offer a holistic approach that is deeply informed by research and highly applicable to real-world leadership. Their book is an essential resource for anyone looking to lead with compassion and effectiveness in today’s complex and ever-changing environment.”
Dr. Kenneth Rauch, Ed.D.
Professor of Management
Director – Tiffin University Ph.D. in Global Leadership and Change
Moving Forward: A Workbook with Journal Prompts and Activities to Help You Navigate Grief and Loss
This workbook is a guide for you to work independently or with a grief coach to reflect on your loss and your journey as you move forward.
Grief is not one-size-fits-all—and neither is healing.
This workbook is designed to guide you through your personal grief journey, whether you are working independently or alongside a grief coach. Through thoughtful prompts and reflective exercises, you will be supported in processing your loss and exploring what it means to move forward.
This is not just a workbook for those who have experienced the death of a loved one. Grief can take many forms. You may be navigating the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, a significant life transition, changes in identity, or the shifting roles within your family. Whatever your experience, your grief is valid—and worthy of attention.
Supporting Others in Times of Loss: Stories of Grief, Trauma, and Leadership.
This book examines leaders who have experienced grief and loss both from a quantitative and qualitative lens to tell personal stories to establish the problem clearly, help organizations see the need for leader support, and above all, create policy change to support leaders. Though extensive literature exists on how leaders should support their employees through times of grief, loss, and trauma, the topic of how leaders can get through their own grief is missing from the cannon. During the pandemic, many suffered tragedies over and over again, but this is not a new concept as grief is a universal experience and one that leaders have struggled to work through as they manage other employees.
