Research-grounded trainings and advisory work for organizations navigating corporate trauma, the death or loss of a team member, office tragedy, natural disasters, and the leadership dynamics that quietly shape how teams hire, communicate, and recover. Bring clarity and humanity into the room.
Workplaces carry trauma in many forms. Sometimes it's the slow, cumulative kind — the patterns leaders bring in from unfinished personal work, the residue of layoffs and restructures, the friction that gets labeled “personality conflict” but is actually unprocessed nervous-system activation playing out in the org chart.
Other times it's acute. A colleague dies. A team member is lost to suicide, illness, or accident. An office is touched by violence, an emergency, or a public crisis. A wildfire, hurricane, earthquake, or flood disrupts not just operations but people's sense of safety. These moments ask more of leaders than performance management ever prepared them for.
MJ Valentine offers consulting and trainings across both — corporate trauma and leadership dynamics, as well as trauma-informed care for death and grief in the workplace, office tragedy, and natural disaster response. Each engagement is grounded in current trauma research and shaped by more than a decade of corporate experience, translated into the language of leadership rather than the language of clinicians.
This work is for adults 18 and older. The goal is not to therapize your organization — it's to give your people the framework, language, and tools to recognize what's happening and choose differently.
Engagements can be delivered as a single workshop, a multi-session series, an on-call response after an acute event, or an ongoing advisory relationship with leadership. Each is tailored to the language, culture, and specific moment your organization is in. All work is for adult populations 18 and older.
A grounded introduction to what trauma actually is, how it shows up in the nervous system, and why it matters for the modern workplace — without jargon and without diagnosing anyone.
The collective patterns that quietly form inside organizations after layoffs, restructures, toxic leadership, or sustained pressure — and the practical work of repair and resilience.
Trauma-informed support for teams navigating the death of a colleague, a sudden loss, or grief that lingers long after the funeral — including guidance for leaders on what to say, what to hold space for, and how to lead through it.
On-call response and follow-up trainings for workplaces touched by violence, accident, suicide, or other acute events — helping leaders, HR, and teams move through shock with care that protects long-term recovery.
Trauma-informed support for teams disrupted by wildfire, earthquake, hurricane, flood, or other natural disasters — when people are managing personal loss, displacement, and the expectation to keep showing up at work.
How unexamined family-of-origin patterns get re-enacted in leadership relationships — and how leaders can recognize their own activation before it becomes a team's problem.
Why “gut feel” in hiring is often a trauma response in disguise — and how to design interview and evaluation processes that surface skill and fit instead of familiarity.
Beyond the buzzword. Concrete behaviors, language, and meeting structures that actually let people speak up, disagree, and recover from rupture without disengaging.
Ongoing 1:1 advising for executives, founders, and HR leaders who want a confidential space to think through people decisions through a trauma-informed lens.
These trainings are designed for the people who shape culture and make decisions — not for clinical audiences. The language is plain, the frameworks are practical, and the takeaways are immediately applicable.
Leaders setting tone for an entire organization who want to lead from clarity rather than reactivity.
HRBPs, Chief People Officers, and talent leaders working through culture, conflict, and retention challenges.
First-time and experienced people managers learning how to hold steady through hard conversations.
Recruiters and hiring committees redesigning processes to surface real fit instead of unconscious familiarity.
Board-level conversations on succession, leadership health, and the people-side of organizational risk.
Nonprofits, healthcare, and education teams carrying heavy collective load and needing trauma-informed grounding.
Every engagement is grounded in current trauma research and shaped by more than a decade of corporate experience in coaching, talent development, and leadership advising. The work is rigorous, but never clinical for a non-clinical room.
Frameworks draw from contemporary trauma research, attachment theory, and nervous-system science — translated into language leaders can actually use.
Years inside corporate environments mean the trainings land in the language of strategy, performance, hiring, and OKRs — not therapy-speak.
Every engagement is scoped to your team's size, industry, and the specific dynamics you're navigating — not pulled off a shelf.
Every organization is different. Reach out directly to MJ to talk through what your team is navigating and receive a quote tailored to your specific needs, format, and timeline.
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