Executive Grief Coaching
You've built a career on resilience. But when your child is seriously ill — or gone — the strategies that make you exceptional at work have nothing to offer your grief. Steady Ground exists for exactly this intersection.
"I didn't need someone to fix me. I needed someone who understood I was carrying two full-time lives at once."
— Senior Director, Healthcare
Most bereaved parents have no choice. Professional obligations don't pause for the most devastating loss imaginable.
Generic grief support doesn't account for executive identity. Leadership coaching doesn't touch grief. You fall between both.
Steady Ground was built for the specific complexity of being a high-performing leader while carrying profound loss.
Who This Is For
This work is for senior leaders, executives, and high-achieving professionals who are navigating the terminal illness or death of a child — while still showing up, still leading, still performing.
You sit in boardrooms with grief in your chest
You've learned to compartmentalize, but the weight of it is accumulating. You need somewhere that holds both realities without asking you to choose.
Your identity is built on solving problems you cannot solve
The part of you that leads by fixing things has met something unfixable. That dissonance is its own kind of suffering — and it deserves specific attention.
You're grieving in isolation at the top
Your team needs you steady. Your peers don't have language for this. You've never felt more alone in a room full of people who rely on you.
You're asking who you are now
Loss reshapes identity at a fundamental level. For leaders whose sense of self is deeply tied to performance and purpose, that reconstruction needs skilled, specialized support.
The Approach
Steady Ground works at the intersection of evidence-informed grief support and executive coaching — because you need both, held simultaneously, by someone who understands what it means to lead at the highest levels while your world has broken open.
Start the ConversationSee the whole of you
We begin by mapping both landscapes — your professional context and your grief — without ranking one above the other. Both are real. Both matter.
Build language for what you're carrying
Grief without language becomes isolation. We develop the vocabulary that lets you understand your own experience — and, when you're ready, share it with the people who need to understand.
Navigate forward — not around
Integration, not resolution. We work toward a life where grief is woven in, not set aside — and where your leadership identity expands to hold the person you are now.
Ways to Work Together
A 12-week private coaching engagement designed specifically for senior leaders navigating child loss. Bi-weekly sessions, full between-session support, and a structured framework that honours both grief and professional identity.
EnquireFor leaders who need consistent, confidential support over the long arc of grief. Monthly sessions with flexible access — because grief doesn't run on a quarterly calendar.
EnquireStructured grief journals written in the voice and context of executive experience — 12-week and 52-week formats. For leaders who process through writing, or who aren't ready for 1:1 work yet.
Learn More"For the first time in two years, I had space that was entirely mine — not as a parent who had to be strong, and not as a leader who had to have answers. Just space to be in the truth of it."
— VP Operations, Financial Services
A discovery call is a conversation — not a commitment. It's a chance to share where you are, hear what's possible, and decide together whether this is the right support for you right now.
All enquiries are handled with complete confidentiality.
"Every conversation starts simply — with one email, and the courage to send it."
— Terri, Steady Ground Coaching
Reach out directly. Tell me where you are — even just a sentence or two is enough to start. I read every message personally and respond within one business day.
Email Me Directly →coach@steadygroundgriefcoaching.com · All messages handled with complete confidentiality.