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Leading Through Loss: How to Navigate Grief at Work

Margo M. Fowkes

Silver Medal Winner:Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards -Grief/Grieving (2022)

Axiom Business Book Award-Bronze Medalist

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year-Silver Medalist

Nautilus Book Award-Gold Medalist

IPPY Award-Gold Medalist

Outstanding Grief / Hardship IAN Book of the Year


"This book should be on the desktop of every C-level executive."

-Sally Edwards, CEO, Heart Zones


Grief is somewhere in every workplace. One employee may be mourning the death of a family member. Another may be missing a close coworker who's died. Still another may be going through a divorce or coping with serious illness.


Would you know how to support a grieving employee and enable them to transition successfully back to work after a loss? Do you understand how to balance their needs with those of your team and the company as a whole? If you suffered a shattering loss, would you know how to manage your grief while continuing to lead?


Leading Through Loss provides practical tools and ideas from leaders who've dealt with grief at work and offers insight into the perspective and experience of grieving employees: what they need and want, what helps and what hurts, what support they were grateful for and what they wish their leaders had done differently.




Book Details

  • Publisher: Find Your Harbor Press
  • Publish Date: Sep 25th, 2022
  • Pages: 106
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.22in - 0.34lb
  • EAN: 9798218048044
  • Categories: LeadershipWorkplace CultureGrief & Loss

About the Author

Fowkes, Margo M.: - Margo M. Fowkes is the president of OnTarget Consulting Inc., a firm specializing in helping organizations and individuals act strategically, improve their performance, and achieve their business goals. Margo also helps organizations and leaders create a more compassionate culture by speaking openly about grief and loss in the workplace. After the death of her son, Jimmy, in 2014, she created Salt Water, an online community that provides a safe harbor for anyone grieving the death of someone dear to them.

Praise for this book

"Using real life stories, Margo Fowkes provides a compelling narrative, peppered with step-by-step guidance and tools, that I found to be an indispensable guide. . . . This book is a great tool for everyone, not just those in charge."

-Lial C. Jones, CEO, Crocker Art Museum


"Margo Fowkes has given leaders at all levels a true gift. . . . This book provides practical guidance and advice for leading your team through the most challenging situations."

-Doug Ulman, CEO, Pelatonia, and former CEO of LIVESTRONG

"Margo Fowkes's extraordinary book brings to light the prevalence of grief in the workplace, its impact on organizations of all types, and the drain it causes on creativity, engagement, and profitability. But thankfully, Margo gives us a new toolbox that is filled with methods and practices we can use to support those who are navigating their grief at work."

-David Woods Bartley, TEDx speaker and international mental health educator


"Leading Through Loss has some very practical applications for leading employees during times of grief, for both the employee experiencing loss and the colleagues surrounding them. Leaders would do well to take this book and apply it broadly across employees' experiences of grief, including loss of loved ones to death, severe illness, estrangement, and prison."

-Stephanie Baldwin, Vice President, Airport Operations, Delta Air Lines



"Leading Through Loss is a truly thoughtful and illuminating guide to conceptualizing and addressing grief and loss in the workplace. Anyone who has struggled with what to say to or how to support a grieving colleague can benefit from this book. I highly recommend this resource for both corporate and nonprofit leaders."

-Mark Schuster founding dean and CEO, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine