Navigating Grief in Organizations: Managing Chronic Illnesses PDW

Allison Fine is the Executive Director and Founder at the Center for Chronic Illness. She founded the Center for Chronic Illness in 2016 to better meet the emotional needs of those impacted by ongoing health challenges.

She has also worked as a therapist in private practice specializing with this population for the past 13 years. In her private counseling practice, speaking engagements, and educational writing, Allison focuses her work on a variety of chronic illness populations.

Allison has a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Kansas, and she has been a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Washington State since 2012.

Dr. Nancy Isenberg is the Medical Director for the Center for Healthy Aging, Swedish Neuroscience Institute and Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at University of Washington. Dr. Isenberg recently joined the Swedish Neuroscience Institute to develop a Center for Healthy Aging. She is the co-director of Project ECHO Dementia which aims to broaden the population health impact of early detection, prevention, programs and services with a specific focus on rural and chronically underserved areas, and to expand dementia programs and services for communities, to better address health disparities across Washington.

Dr. Isenberg obtained her medical degree, and master of public health from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and School of Public Health. She completed residency training at the Neurological Institute, Columbia Medical Center, and fellowship training Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology at Cornell Medical Center. She has published multiple peer reviewed research articles, and book chapters on neuroimaging and cognitive neurology, and lectured widely on the Neuroscience of Compassion and Mindfulness.

Dr. Hooria Jazaieri is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Her research examines individual reputation and emotion. She studies the process of how people gain, lose, and recover their reputations, and how reputational information is stored and communicated in networks. Through a variety of settings ranging from baseball fields, sorority houses, wineries, and Japan, her work examines the content, structure, and dynamics of individual reputation.

Her work on emotion centers on discrete emotions (compassion, joy, gratitude) and how people regulate their emotions and the emotions of others. She takes a multi-method approach to her research, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods in experimental laboratory and field settings. Her work has been published in leading academic journals in the fields of management and psychology.

Dr. Reut Livne-Tarandach is an Assistant Professor of Management and Marketing at Manhattan College. She earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Studies at Boston College.

Dr. Livne-Tarandach's research program is centered around humanistic management. In contrast to the economistic view of management that sees people as tools to attain organizational goals, humanistic management assumes that people matter, and thus call our attention to explore conditions and processes that promote human dignity, human flourishing, and organizations as caring ecologies that enliven rather than deplete the life of organizational members.

Inspired by this perspective on management, her scholarly work focuses on three broad themes within humanistic management, namely (1) compassion, (2) dignity and (3) community experiences in organizations. Dr. Livne-Tarandach's research has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Academy of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Research in organizational Change and Development, Institution and Entrepreneurship: Research in the sociology of work, and Humanistic Management Journal.

Dr. Ellie Stillwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration (Organizational Behavior and Human Resources concentration) from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Stillwell’s research focuses on understanding the dynamics of flourishing and suffering in organizations. Towards this pursuit, her work integrates three themes: (1) positive workplace interventions; (2) the grief-work interface and compassion; and (3) workplace mistreatment. Dr. Stillwell's research has been published in Journal of Applied Psychology and Human Resource Management.