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.

Dina Bell-Laroche

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.

Dina Bell-Laroche Videos

Dina Bell-Laroche Interviews & Podcasts

Grief Unleashed | Rogers Tv

Player's Own Voice Podcast with Dina Bell-laroche

How to Support Someone Who's Grieving (do's & Don'ts)

The Wisdom of Grief

Meander with Dina Bell-laroche

DINA BELL-LAROCHE BIOGRAPHY

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

Dina Bell-Laroche Books & Articles

Grief Unleashed by Dina Bell-laroche About Facing the Pain
Grief Unleashed by Dina Bell-laroche About Facing

Dina Bell-Laroche’s new book, Grief Unleashed, was inspired by her own experience of losing her sister, Tracy, to cancer 22 years ago....

Ottawa Woman Honours Sister's Memory by Building a School in Nicaragua
Ottawa Woman Honours Sister's Memory by Building

How else would anyone explain why Bell-Laroche — a highly successful partner in Sport Law & Strategy Group — finds herself preparing to...

Walker: Channelling Grief into Something Positive
Walker: Channelling Grief into Something

Dina has been an amazing ambassador for SchoolBOX over the past seven years,” SchoolBOX executive director Jon Tam said. “She has...

Dina Bell-Laroche Speaking Testimonials

"Having the language to make sense of the complexity of sports and life is a powerful tool. Dina Bell-Laroche has helped me understand the mechanics of grief, which has allowed me to process some of the negative moments I’ve experienced throughout my career in sports."

Mark de Jonge

Retired Olympian

"Dina Bell-Laroche’s presentation on grief and loss literacy was engaging, informative, and supportive to frontline professionals who deal with grief both professionally and personally.  Her exploration of self-care as an ethical imperative, how we can be disenfranchised grievers when wearing our professional hats, and how to think about grief in ways that can be more supportive to ourselves and clients (in a society that often can be dismissive), offered new perspectives and important food for thought on these topics. I would recommend it to all my colleagues. "

Carlie Graef (She/Her) from Hospice Yukon 

"Like fish who don’t see water because they live in it, we all live in our experience of grief. A little distance from my experience, backed by some learning from Dina Bell-Laroche about how grief manifests in my life, has been illuminating for my own self-development and self-understanding. Dina Bell-Laroche is a gentle presence, and her knowledge can help us all. As she often says: Grief work, works! This s not just words, it has also been my experience. "

Trudy Chapman

Leadership Coach 

"Exploring this space with Dina Bell-Laroche was an honor and a gift.  Dina Bell-Laroche has a unique and differentiated way of simultaneously leading and walking besides, sitting with you in everything so you never feel alone.  There’s no one I’d rather companion me on this journey.  Thanks to Dina Bell-Laroche and Grief Unleashed, I’ve seen the depths of my grief and the heights of my joy, opening myself to the idea of a fully lived life. Thanks to Dina Bell-Laroche, I’ve finally surrendered to the notion that grief is beautiful and healthy and all around us, a shared experience and shared language I can use if I simply shed the fear and allow it in."

Whitney Schmiesing

Google Account Executive

"Dina Bell-Laroche, just thanks for helping me. The light shone through just a crack and with that light a bit of happiness, something that had been missing for a long time. I have promised myself to be kinder and gentler to myself and to listen, hear others grief. There is so much grief in my world of sports. There is so much work still to be done."

High Performance Sport Coach

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