Work is one of the primary places where adults experience identity, purpose, community, and a sense of contribution. When loss occurs in the workplace—through layoffs, burnout, moral injury, discrimination, retrenchment on DEI work, program cuts, health care changes, or other transitions we did not choose—it can profoundly disrupt our sense of meaning and connectedness to others.
This workshop invites participants to name and honor forms of grief that often go unrecognized: the loss of identity, community, confidence, vocation, or connection to a mission that once felt life-giving.
Cost: $25
Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves is a leadership strategist, coach, keynote speaker, consultant and author. She is passionate about helping build thriving workplaces and empowered careers for transformational leaders.
With decades of experience as a professor, academic leader, and advisor to organizations, Jodi brings a thoughtful, practical approach to leadership development. Her work focuses on helping individuals and organizations develop values-driven leadership practices that strengthen workplace culture, support career growth, and foster inclusive, high-performing communities. She is the author of Leading with Courage: A Career-Long Guide for Idealistic Women, as well as Modern Motherhood: An American History. She loves to translate research and lived experience into actionable strategies for leaders at every career stage.
Dr. Erica G. Srinivasan is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, where she also serves as the director for the Center for Grief and Death Education and is co-chair for the Gerontology Emphasis. Additionally, she is the lead instructor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Grief Support Specialist Certificate Program. She conducts research on grief and loss, medical-in-dying, dementia and death education. She has a passion for normalizing conversations about death and grief, which serves as a foundation for all of her professional work.