About me
I am a grief educator, writer, public speaker and consultant working and living on Boon Wurrung Country, in bayside Melbourne, Australia.
For 18 years I was a strategy and leadership consultant, working with senior leaders and boards to set their strategic vision and agenda and develop personal and team leadership skills. It included working with The Energy Project (USA) and Think One Team. I’ve been a board member with organisations including The Melbourne Forum and St Martins Youth Arts Centre.
In 2023 I trained under David Kessler’s Grief Educator program and have subsequently transitioned into grief education and peer support.
I love the ocean, nature, poetry, literature, learning and music. I’m an enthusiastic iceberger and volunteer with Brighton Life Saving Club.
grief educator
Support for grievers
As a certified grief educator, I work one-on-one with you as you experience your loss or grief. It is a peer-to-peer relationship, which supports you as you travel your unique journey through your loss. You’ll learn to understand and navigate the many different—and often bewildering—feelings and situations that follow loss or bereavement. My role is to witness your story and walk alongside you as a confidant as you come to acknowledge your grief, experience it in all its dimensions, honour it and heal in a way that invites love, beauty and meaning.
Support for professionals & organisations
I also work with leaders and teams to address grief or loss experiences within an organisation. I call on both grief educator and leadership frameworks. My offering includes helping leaders support an employee or team experiencing grief, or to respond to a rupture within the workplace. I also support leaders to return to work—and life—in a positive and meaningful way after loss.
writer
I’m an emerging writer of creative non-fiction and literary fiction. Grief, trauma, belonging and identity are central themes in all my writing.
Between Two Waves, a creative nonfiction/memoir recounts the loss of my parents and brother, becoming untethered from family, home, community, class and security, and my lifelong search for belonging and identity. I draw on neuroscience, philosophy, literature, poetry, art, music and nature to explore and question my own—and our collective—understanding of loss and trauma. The book remains expectantly on publishers’ desks.
In addition, I’ve written essays, short stories, and literary fiction. I’m currently working on a novel Life Without Him, and a non-fiction work The First Slap exploring sibling abuse.
speaker
I have been a keynote speaker on the conference circuit for fifteen years. Additionally I was an official speaker for Vistage (previously The Executive Connection, TEC).
In the past, my topics included leading change, innovation and customer-centricity.
Today I speak about grief, how art heals, and finding meaning after loss.
Please contact me directly regarding speaking and media bios or engagements.
Contact me
If you’re interested in any of the above, or you have a question about grief you’d like me to discuss in a future post, please fill in this form and I’ll be in touch shortly.
I look forward to connecting with you!