For organisations
Your people are carrying more than you know
Bereavement, redundancy, divorce, illness, caring, fertility, identity. At any moment a significant share of your workforce is grieving something, and most of it is never named at work.
For employers
The Bereavement-Ready Programme
From April 2027, employees in the UK gain a new legal right to up to two weeks’ bereavement leave, including, for the first time, leave after pregnancy loss before 24 weeks. It can be taken in separate days across a year, and employers cannot ask for evidence. Policies will need updating, and managers will need to know what to say.
The Bereavement-Ready Programme helps your organisation get there with care: compassionate, grief-literate leaders and teams, and people who feel supported when loss comes.
1 · Policy review
A review of your bereavement, compassionate leave and pregnancy loss policies against the new entitlement, with practical recommendations that go beyond the legal minimum.
2 · Manager training
Grief literacy for line managers: the first conversation, what to say and stop saying, intermittent leave, adjustments and a sustainable return to work.
3 · Compassionate leadership
A session for senior leaders on leading people through loss, including the invisible losses that never reach a policy: divorce, baby loss, diagnosis and caring.
4 · Team support
Support for teams after a death, a critical incident or collective loss, including reflective spaces and post-incident psychological debriefing.
5 · Talks for everyone
Keynotes and webinars for all staff, so the whole organisation understands grief, and how to support one another.
6 · Ongoing advisory support
A retained relationship, so HR and leaders have expert psychological advice on hand when loss happens.
The problem
This is invisible loss.
Unacknowledged grief shows up as presenteeism, absence, disengagement and turnover, especially after restructuring, redundancy or major change.
The problem is not that people are struggling. It is that nobody has given the struggle a name, or built the culture, leadership capability and psychological safety to respond to it.
I bring more than two decades of clinical expertise into organisations, helping leaders, HR teams and boards understand what their people are actually carrying. This is not wellbeing as performance optimisation. It is leadership rooted in presence, responsibility and care.
Services
How I work with organisations
I work selectively with organisations committed to thoughtful, psychologically informed change.
Strategic psychological consulting
- Wellbeing and psychological safety reviews
- Support after grief, trauma and organisational rupture
- Guidance on complex transitions and return to work
- Leadership development grounded in psychology
Senior leaders · Wellbeing Leads · HR
Keynote speaking
Signature talk: The Hidden Cost of Invisible Loss. Tailored to your sector for leadership conferences, HR summits, partner days and all-staff events.
Workshops & group learning
- Invisible loss and grief in the workplace
- Supporting colleagues through crisis
- Burnout, depletion and recovery
- Psychologically safe leadership
- Compassion and relational resilience
Executive coaching
One-to-one work for senior leaders navigating loss, transition, identity and the search for meaning in high-pressure professional life.
Reflective spaces
- Grief Circles and bereavement peer support
- Post-incident psychological debriefing
- Facilitated reflective practice for teams
Manager guidance
Practical, psychologically grounded guidance for line managers supporting a grieving colleague, from the first conversation to a sustainable return.
Trusted by
- Goldman Sachs
- Allen & Overy
- Freshfields
- Cleary Gottlieb
- Weil Gotshal
- Sidley Austin
- BNP Paribas
- Nomura
- Accenture
- Aviva
- Allianz
- Ogilvy
- Tesco
- EBRD
- World Food Programme (WFP)
- Clyde & Co
- Department for Transport
- This Can Happen
- The Sandcastle Trust
In the aftermath of team trauma, Dr Chloe offered insight and steadiness when we needed it most. Our team is better for it.
Her webinar gave language to what so many of us had silently carried. It opened the door to a new way of caring for each other at work.
Dr Chloe’s approach to grief at work is human, trauma-informed and refreshingly honest. I wish every leadership team could hear what we heard.
Next step
Ready to do the deeper work?
If your organisation wants to prepare for the new bereavement leave, or to understand the hidden cost of invisible loss, I would welcome a conversation.
Bereavement-ready · Training · Keynotes · Consulting