Dina Bell-Laroche
Keynote Speaker | Ottawa, Ontario
Business Leader & Leadership Coach
Designing Healthy Cultures | Grief & Loss Literacy
Dina Bell-Laroche Expertise Business & Corporate, Business Growth, Leadership, Personal Leadership, Women's Leadership, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership Development, Peak Performance and Health & Wellness.
About Dina Bell-Laroche
Dina Bell-Laroche is a grief doula and death educator that has been advocating for grief and loss literacy since the death of her younger sister in 2001. Dina’s book Grief Unleashed: Moving from the Hole in our Hearts to Whole-Hearted gives us practical knowledge that demystifies a taboo topic, provides helpful coping practices for caregivers and helping professionals and gives us a roadmap to companion others. Dina has held several senior leadership positions through her three decades in Canada’s high performance sport sector including attending five Olympic Games. She is currently the proud owner of two companies: Sport Law, renowned for providing legal and leadership support to sport organizations and Grief Unleashed, a company devoted to supporting the bereaved through coaching, workshops, training, and advocacy.
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Dina Bell-Laroche’s life changed dramatically in 2001 after the death of her youngest sister Tracy. Since then, her journey through grief has inspired her to advocate for a humanistic approach to grief and loss. As a death educator, Certified Thanatologist (CT), grief doula, keynote speaker, and published author, Dina Bell-Laroche’s commitment to help the bereaved re-imagine a new relationship with loss is unwavering. She activates this through trainings, workshops, speaking engagements, Grief Cafés, her weekly newsletter called The Grieving Place, and her book Grief Unleashed: Moving from the hole in our hearts to whole-hearted (2023).
Dina Bell-Laroche completed a cross-country tour over 2023-24, hosting Grief Cafés, book signings and educational workshop to enhance the grief and loss literacy of hospice workers, caregivers, and helping professionals. Dina Bell-Laroche brings a hope-filled perspective to a topic that is too often dismissed, inviting participants to understand and honour their grief. Dina Bell-Laroche volunteers her time with Bereaved Families of Ottawa, Hospice Care Ottawa, Bridge C-14 and the Ottawa Cancer Foundation, bringing hope to the bereaved and the broken-hearted.
Dina Bell-Laroche has held several senior leadership positions through her three decades in Canada’s high-performance sport sector including the Equestrian Canada, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the Canadian Olympic Committee, and the True Sport Secretariat. Since 2010, Dina has served as a co-Partner of Sport Law, a company that provides legal and leadership support to sport organizations from playground to podium. Dina Bell-Laroche is a certified Integral Master CoachTM and is an accredited Professional Coach in good standing with the International Coaching Federation. In 2019, she enrolled as a thanatology student at King’s University College (University of Western Ontario) where she continues to immerse herself in topics related to social justice, trauma, children and adolescent loss, ethical issues in thanatology, and so much more. Throughout her extensive journey, she has discovered many gems that she is inspired to share with others including building classrooms in Nicaragua, and more recently in Northern Ontario on Treaty 3, in honour of her deceased sister. More recently, she is collaborating with the Ottawa Cancer Foundation to bring the first Wind Phone to Ottawa, a way to provide solace to the bereaved and honour the memory of her deceased father.
Dina’s knowledge runs deep. Her teachings are wise. Her practical way of demystifying a taboo topic will leave you feeling more resourced and less isolated. Her hope is to inspire a healthier way for people to re-imagine a new relationship with loss.
Dina Bell-Laroche Topic Presentations
Dina Bell-Laroche Ottawa, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
Let’s Talk About Grief: What Leaders Need to Know
Stop Making My Grief a Problem to Fix:: Learning How to Walk Alongside the Bereaved and the Broken-hearted
From Death Denying to Life Affirming:: Learning the a B Cs and 123 of Grief and Loss Literacy
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