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The Unmeasured Cost of Grief at Work
Why grief is the line item never on a P&L and what it costs you anyway. Built for CHROs, CEOs, and leadership teams.
Speaking
Keynotes, workshops, and fireside conversations on workplace grief.
CJ shows up to leadership teams, HR communities, and podcast audiences with the same message: grief is the line item never on a P&L and the workplaces that learn to plan for it work better.
About CJ
A widowed father of three. A certified grief coach. An honest voice in a topic the room is usually afraid of.
CJ Infantino built three connected practices because grief had no infrastructure when his wife died — not in his workplace, not in his civic life, not in coaching that gave honest feedback and concrete plans. On stage, he brings the lived experience and the operator's eye in equal measure.
His talks are practical, not preachy. The room leaves with concrete action and reframes.
Recent conversations
Where you'll find CJ.
- TED Brain Dates · workplace grief
- Podcast appearances · grief & leadership
- HR community conversations
- People-leader roundtables
- Industry Q&A sessions
Podcasts, TED Brain Dates, and informal industry conversations on workplace grief. Now booking keynotes, workshops, and fireside formats — request below.
Talk topics
Four formats. Adaptable to your audience.
Every talk is shaped to the room — its industry, its size, what triggered the search. The titles below are starting points, not scripts.
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Leading Through Loss
A practical framework for managers facing grief on their teams. What to say day one, day thirty, day three hundred.
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Grief-Aware Policy Design
How to write bereavement, leave, and accommodation policies that actually hold up under real human grief.
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Building Resilient Teams
CJ in conversation. Adaptable to your event format, audience size, and the questions you want him to address.
Request a booking
Bring CJ to your stage.
Tell us about the event — audience, date, format. CJ replies personally to all booking requests.
- Lead time — typically 8–12 weeks; rush dates considered case-by-case.
- Travel — Available globally for in-person events; virtual works anywhere.
- Honorarium — we'll send a one-pager with rates and inclusions.