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Workplace Grief Consulting

Grief is the unmeasured cost in every workplace.

Most companies plan for hires, exits, illness, and even sabbaticals. They don't plan for grief, and grief shows up anyway. Unvoiced provides organizations with the training, policies, and language to make grief a planned-for part of how teams operate.

By the numbers

Grief is a workplace performance issue.

When leaders aren't prepared, employees disengage or leave. The data is consistent across industries, geographies, and sizes. The fix isn't more sympathy — it's better infrastructure.

$75B+
U.S. annual cost of grief-related lost productivity in workplaces (2003 est.; current figures likely exceed $100B)
SRC — Grief Recovery Institute
1 in 4
employees actively grieving at any given time
SRC — Grief Recovery Institute
1 in 11
children in the U.S. will lose a parent or sibling before age 18
SRC — Judi's House / CBEM (2025)
90%
of U.S. educators receive no training in supporting grieving students
SRC — AFT / New York Life Foundation
6
U.S. states with a mandatory bereavement leave law (CA, IL, MD, OR, VT, WA)
SRC — Mosey / Sedgwick (2025)
3 days
most common U.S. bereavement leave — largely unchanged in decades
SRC — BLS / SHRM
$0
federal U.S. budget line for grief literacy or bereavement infrastructure
SRC — HHS budget
CJ Infantino — founder of Unvoiced
Founder

CJ Infantino built Unvoiced because workplaces had no plan.

After his wife's death, CJ found that grief was the one universal human experience without infrastructure — not in workplaces, not in civic institutions, not in a coaching practice that gave honest feedback and concrete plans. He built three connected practices to fix that. Unvoiced is the workplace one.

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Make grief a planned-for part of how your team works.

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