Grief comes to work, too.
Dr. Arielle Jordan helps leaders and teams name what they're carrying and stay steady under pressure. Army veteran, trauma therapist, TEDx speaker, and creator of Grief Intelligence®.
PhD, LCPC, LPC, NCC. 2026 EMDRIA Emerging Leader. U.S. Army, 2008 to 2017.
How to Grieve Better
The talk that brought Grief Intelligence® to a wider audience: loss, the masks people wear at work, and what helps. Share it with your team or event planner.
See Dr. Jordan on stage.
A few minutes of what your audience gets: real stories, clear tools, and a room that leaves ready to act.
The signs are easy to miss.
Grief comes from more than death. Deployments, diagnoses, divorce, caring for aging parents, and hard seasons at work all count. On a team it can look like missed deadlines, short tempers, cameras off, and resignations that seem to come out of nowhere.
"Fine is the word people use when the real answer costs too much."
Three talks, built around your people.
Each talk is shaped by a planning call with your team, so the stories and examples fit your room.
Grief Intelligence®: How to Grieve Better at Work
Grief often shows up as burnout, conflict, or quiet checking out. This talk gives leaders and teams language for loss and simple ways to support each other.
Resilience Is Not Healing
High performers get very good at getting through. This talk separates surviving from recovering, with nervous system tools people can use between meetings.
The Silent War
Racial trauma and moral injury in service cultures. What leaders and clinicians can watch for, and how to open conversations that build trust.
Pick the format. Add what you need.
Keynotes
Open or close your conference, summit, or all-staff event with a talk people keep talking about.
Facilitation
Guided conversations for retreats, offsites, and teams moving through change or loss.
Trainings
Emotional intelligence, stress regulation, and grief at work for high-stress teams and veterans moving into civilian careers.
Intensives
Deeper work on regulation, hard conversations, and asking for support, for leaders and teams.
What people say after the room empties.
From the beginning to the end, she captured the attention of the audience as well as myself.
BEST PRESENTATION OF THE WHOLE CONFERENCE!!!!
I appreciated that the information was digestible, relatable, and ready to implement immediately.
Dr. Jordan is an awesome, relatable trainer, and I will definitely recommend this training!
This training has given me additional skills and tools to utilize the AIP model/EMDR with greater cultural humility.
Rooms she's been in
She's lived what she teaches.
Dr. Arielle N. Jordan served in the U.S. Army from 2008 to 2017. In 2014, while still serving, she lost her daughter, Jordyn. Her father died the next year. That season shaped everything she teaches about grief, leadership, and getting back up.
Today she is a licensed trauma therapist, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and the founder of Mindset Quality and The Jordyn Effect, a nonprofit that funds mental health support for veterans and military families. Her doctoral research on Black mothers who lost an only child has been downloaded more than 1,600 times in 57 countries, and it became Grief Intelligence®, now a federally registered framework.
She brings humor into hard topics, because people learn better when they can breathe.
Tell her what your room is carrying.
Share your event, your audience, and your dates. You'll get a quick call and a clear proposal.