The most powerful thing a keynote can do is give an audience a new language for something they already know is true but have never been able to say out loud.

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That is what I do.

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In over 25 years as a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, I have sat with thousands of people - in clinical rooms, in coaching suites, in boardrooms and leadership workshops - who are carrying losses that nobody in their professional world has ever thought to name. Redundancy. Divorce. Illness. The slow erosion of identity. The grief that follows restructuring, departure, failure, and change.

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When I speak, I bring that clinical depth into the room. Not as a lecture. Not as a list of tips. But as a genuinely transformative conversation about what human beings are actually carrying and what becomes possible when organisations and leaders finally understand it.

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Signature keynote

The Hidden Cost of Invisible Loss

What grief is really doing to your people - and what the most effective organisations are doing about it

One in four of your employees is grieving right now. 91% report a significant drop in productivity. UK businesses lose over £20 billion a year to grief-related presenteeism and absenteeism. And only 11% of managers can correctly identify grief as the source of the performance issues they are seeing.

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This keynote changes that.

Drawing on clinical psychology, neuroscience, existential insight, and 25 years of experience working with individuals and organisations through loss, The Hidden Cost of Invisible Loss gives your audience:

A new and precise language for the losses that accumulate inside every team, every culture, and every individual professional life - but that are never named or acknowledged.

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A clear, evidence-based understanding of what invisible loss does to the brain, to performance, to engagement, and to retention - and why the standard wellbeing toolkit is not getting to the root of it.

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A framework for building cultures of genuine psychological safety - not as a slogan, but as a structural feature of how teams are led and organisations are run.

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And a profound shift in how they understand the human beings they work with and lead.

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Audiences consistently describe this talk as the most honest, most human, and most practically useful conversation about wellbeing they have ever heard in a professional setting.

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Available as a 45-minute keynote, 60-minute keynote with Q&A, or 90-minute keynote with facilitated discussion. In-person and virtual.

 

Additional keynotes and workshops

Each of the following can be delivered as a standalone keynote, a half-day workshop, or a full-day leadership programme. All are tailored to your sector, your audience, and your organisation's specific context.

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The Seven Invisible Losses Inside Every Organisation A practical, eye-opening exploration of the forms of loss -beyond bereavement - that are present in every team, every week, entirely unaddressed. Leaves leaders with a concrete framework for recognising and responding to what their people are carrying.

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Why Resilience Culture Is Making Us Sicker A compelling counter-narrative to the fix-it wellness industry. This talk challenges the assumption that resilience means bouncing back faster and offers a psychologically rigorous alternative rooted in presence, integration, and genuine human sustainability.

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Leading Through Grief - What the Most Effective Leaders Know Designed for senior leaders and executive teams. Explores the relationship between loss, identity, and leadership - and what becomes possible when leaders develop the emotional intelligence and psychological depth to lead from a more honest and human place.

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The Neuroscience of Invisible Loss A fascinating, accessible exploration of what grief actually does to the brain - and what this means for decision-making, focus, creativity, and performance at every level of an organisation.

 

Grief, Meaning, and the Stranger Within Based on Dr Chloe's forthcoming book. An existential and psychological exploration of what loss reveals about who we are and what becomes possible when we stop running from it and begin to meet the person it has been quietly making us.

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Who Dr Chloe speaks for

Leadership conferences and partner days · HR and People summits · Annual away days and staff events · Mental Health Awareness Week and World Mental Health Day · Executive and C-suite forums · Law firm and financial services events · Management consultancy and professional services · University and academic institutions · Public sector and government organisations

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Trusted by

Goldman Sachs · Allen & Overy · Freshfields · Cleary Gotlieb · Weil Gotshal · Sidley Austin · BNP Paribas · Accenture · Aviva Allianz · Ogilvy · Tesco · EBRD · Clyde & Co · Department of Transport · This Can Happen

 

What audiences say

"In the aftermath of team trauma, Dr Chloe offered insight and steadiness when we needed it most. Our team is better for it."  Partner, City Law Firm

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"Her webinar gave language to what so many of us had silently carried. It opened the door to a new way of caring for each other at work."  Wellbeing Lead, Financial Services

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"Dr Chloe's approach to grief at work is human, trauma-informed, and refreshingly honest. She doesn't just talk about support - she models it. I wish every leadership team could hear what we heard." — HR Director, Tech

 

About Dr Chloe

Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with over 25 years of clinical and organisational experience. She is the author of The Loss Prescription (HarperCollins, 2024) and is currently writing The Stranger Within. She has published academic work on Existential Trauma Therapy with Routledge and PCCS, and has lectured at the Existential Academy, NSPC London, and as a visiting lecturer on the Cambridge University Executive MBA programme in Mental Fitness and Resilience.

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Her media appearances include BBC Radio 2 - The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, BBC Radio 4 - Sideways with Matthew Syed, CNN International, and features in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and The Huffington Post.

CPsychol · AFBPsS · DCPsych

 

Booking information

Dr Chloe speaks at events across the UK and internationally, in-person and virtually. All keynotes are tailored to your specific audience, sector, and organisational context. A pre-event briefing call is included as standard with every booking.

To discuss availability, fees, and how a keynote could be shaped for your event, please get in touch:

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For media and publishing enquiries: Eleanor Birne, Literary Agent · RCW Literary Agency Email:  eleanor@rcwlitagency.com

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