Barri Leiner Grant

Barri Leiner Grant is a certified grief coach (ICF), founder and Chief Grief Officer™ of The Memory Circle. The Memory Circle was born from a desire to make the grief cycle a shared experience. As a Coach, she helps facilitate and explore ways to remember and reflect on loss through writing, intuition, dreams, movement and imaginings in both one-on-one sessions, groups on-line and in person. Her passion for helping others share their grief stories became a personal mission when her mother, Ellen Jane died of a brain aneurysm in 1993 at just 50 years old. Learning to live with loss is the cornerstone of her coaching philosophy. Barri’s background as an author and stylist has made the art of visual storytelling a centerpiece of her life’s work. She utilizes a combination of creative modalities along with her extensive grief training to craft a one-of-a-kind experience. Her workshops are bathed in a variety of exercises to release and metabolize grief — while always keeping the spirit and celebration of those lost and loved alive. Leiner Grant helps firms of all sizes develop best practices and policy around bereavement leave and employee grief support.