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BIOGRAPHY (50 words or less)
Mindy Corporon is the founder of Grief Leadership, the emerging discipline at the intersection of grief and leadership, and author of Grief Leadership and Healing a Shattered Soul. A CEO, speaker, and entrepreneur, she equips leaders to navigate loss with practical tools that sustain humanity, culture, trust, and organizational performance.
BIOGRAPHY (250 words or less)
Mindy Corporon is the founder of Grief Leadership, the emerging discipline at the intersection of grief and leadership, and author of Grief Leadership: Guiding Your Team Through Personal Loss and Building a Resilient Organization. A CEO, speaker, entrepreneur, and nationally known expert in professional development in grief leadership, Mindy equips leaders to recognize how loss shapes people, teams, and organizations and respond in ways that sustain humanity, culture, and performance.
Her calling to this work was born from profound personal tragedy. In 2014, while serving as CEO of a wealth management company, Mindy’s father, Dr. William Corporon, and her fourteen-year-old son, Reat Underwood, were murdered in a hate crime in Kansas City. Turning grief into action, she dedicated herself to changing how leaders, workplaces, and communities respond to loss.
Mindy is Vice President of Strategic Development for Love Always and co-founder of Workplace Healing Inc., where she created the Human Recovery Platform™, an empathy-based tool that equipped leaders with practical strategies to support employees through life’s most difficult transitions. Her body of work was honored with the WIN for KC/Lockton Companies Resiliency Award.
A dedicated philanthropist and humanitarian, Mindy is also co-founder of SevenDays®, a nonprofit focused on overcoming hate through kindness and understanding. She is the author of the 2021 memoir, Healing a Shattered Soul: My Faithful Journey of Courageous Kindness After the Trauma and Grief of Domestic Terrorism. Through her writing, speaking, and leadership, Mindy advances Grief Leadership and ABLE Conversations: Ask, Befriend, Listen, Encourage.
BIOGRAPHY (Long version)
About the Author
Mindy Corporon is the author of Grief Leadership, a CEO and a nationally known expert in professional development in grief leadership. She is the Vice President of Strategic Development for Love Always, a platform dedicated to building an online community of trusted, authentic providers helping individuals navigate mature life events. Her calling to this work was born from a profound personal tragedy: In 2014, when she was the CEO of a wealth management company, Mindy’s father and oldest son were murdered in an infamous hate crime in Kansas City. Turning her grief into action, she dedicated herself to inspiring systemic change in how leaders respond to grief, becoming an advocate for professional development in grief leadership. Her body of work was honored with the WIN for KC/Lockton Companies Resiliency Award.
As an innovator in developing scalable solutions for helping individuals, families and communities to reclaim their resilience and find healing, Mindy co-founded the women-owned Workplace Healing Inc. There, she created the Human Recovery Platform™. This empathy-based tool empowered leaders with practical strategies to increase compassion and support employees during life’s most difficult transitions.
A dedicated philanthropist and humanitarian, Mindy also is the co-founder of SevenDays®, a nonprofit focused on overcoming hate by promoting kindness and understanding through education and dialogue. Mindy is an inspirational speaker, a sought-after podcast guest, and the author of the 2021 memoir, Healing a Shattered Soul, in which she shares her personal journey as a mother, daughter, wife, and colleague to inspire and help readers rediscover hope and purpose in their own lives.
Through all her endeavors, Mindy is focused on helping leaders and their organizations to become more compassionate through the process of A.B.L.E. Conversations, Ask, Befriend, Listen, Encourage.
MINDY ON STAGE
Keynotes & Speaking
MINDY ON THE MIC
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MINDY IN THE MEDIA
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