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Jayson Greene
Resilience
Adversity
Empathy
Jayson Greene helps organisations support employees through grief and build resilience with compassionate, practical frameworks. A Pitchfork contributing editor and author of TIME's 100 Must Read Books selection, Greene delivers keynotes on workplace wellbeing, mental health, and navigating loss with clarity and hope.
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Cancer Survivor
Jayson Greene writes and speaks about grief, love, and resilience with a clarity that few can match, drawing from the loss of his two-year-old daughter, Greta.
Greene is a contributing editor at Pitchfork and the author of Once More We Saw Stars, selected as one of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2019. The memoir has been featured on The Today Show and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and NPR. Cheryl Strayed called it "a gripping and beautiful book about the power of love."
Greene's talks address what our culture avoids: how grief actually works and how to live alongside it. He speaks openly about anger, depression, and the slow return of hope, offering audiences practical ways to support others in loss and to find meaning after their own. His approach is compassionate and structured so that anyone, whether or not they have experienced profound loss, leaves with something useful.
Audiences gain a clearer understanding of how to sit with grief rather than push it away, language for supporting others through loss, and a realistic framework for rebuilding optimism. As Greene puts it, many people tell him his talks leave them "feeling more whole than when they went in."
Book Jayson Greene to give your audience an honest, hopeful conversation about the one experience none of us can avoid.
Greene brings the rare combination of editorial rigour from Pitchfork and lived experience to help teams develop practical language for supporting colleagues through loss. His framework moves beyond platitudes to give leaders actionable tools for creating psychologically safe environments where grief can coexist with productivity.
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Jayson Greene draws on his memoir Once More We Saw Stars to structure talks around how grief functions in practice, offering audiences a framework for sitting with loss rather than avoiding it, alongside concrete language for supporting others through bereavement.
Jayson Greene speaks on grief, loss and resilience, the practical language for supporting others through bereavement, and rebuilding optimism after profound adversity. He is the author of Once More We Saw Stars, named one of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2019 and featured on The Today Show and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and NPR.
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