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AmarAtma Singh Khalsa

Grief Literacy & Workplace Grief Expert; Harvard-Trained Chaplain; Creator of the Compassionate Grieving Model; Author of "The Tender Art of Grieving"; Bereavement and Healthcare Team Educator

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Cambridge, MA, USA

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Live Event: $5,000 - $10,000 Virtual Event: $5,000 - $10,000 More Fee Info

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Human Resources, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Non-Fiction Authors, Personal Growth, Stress Management

AmarAtma Singh Khalsa Biography

AmarAtma Singh Khalsa is a grief specialist and chaplain who has spent more than 15 years helping people meet loss without being asked to hurry through it. Drawing on chaplaincy, Chinese medicine and Sikh spiritual traditions, Khalsa developed the Compassionate Grieving Model, a framework that treats grief as physiological and existential, not merely emotional.

Khalsa has spoken at Harvard, Stanford and Kripalu and has led more than 25 speaking events nationwide, alongside hospital-based grief and resilience programs for healthcare teams and institutions. His work extends beyond bereavement to career transitions, health changes, relationship endings and identity shifts, the losses organizations rarely name.

Audiences leave with language for what they're carrying and practical ways to support the grieving people around them. Khalsa reaches a global community of more than 355,000, and his book, "The Tender Art of Grieving," was published by Shambhala.

AmarAtma Singh Khalsa Speaking Topics

Grief in the Workplace, Organizational Culture & Employee Wellbeing

The Guarded Process: Why You Can't Program Grief Support

Grief is not taught in management courses yet nearly every employee will move through at some point in their work career. It can't be mandated, scheduled, or checked in on easily which is exactly why most bereavement policies fail. They're built for something that can be tracked, and grief is not that. A grieving person does not need a workflow. They need to not have to pretend.

What an organization can actually build is narrower and more useful: conditions, language, and permission. Drawing on fifteen years as a chaplain sitting with people in the worst weeks of their lives, AmarAtma shows leaders what support looks like when it stops trying to produce recovery on a schedule and meets people in the moment with heart centered communication.

Attendee Results:
- Understand why policy alone cannot carry grief, and what it can carry
- Learn the difference between offering support and requiring someone to receive it
- Recognize the hidden cost of asking people to appear fine
- Identify what your culture already communicates about loss, before anyone speaks
- Leave with three changes that require no budget approval
Return to Work, Employee Retention & Burnout Prevention after a Signifigant Loss

What Comes Back to Work Isn't the Person, It's the Performance

We live in a grief-phobic society, and workplaces are no exception. Bereavement leave ends and the employee returns, partly because bills need paying, partly because there's a drive to get busy again. But what comes back is often function without presence: someone doing the job while checked out emotionally.

The expectation to appear recovered teaches people to perform focus rather than regain it. That performance is expensive. The cost surfaces months later as flattened creativity, blunted motivation, and resignations nobody traces back to a death that happened in March. This session looks honestly at the return — the first day, the first month, the anniversary nobody remembers but them — and at what it would take to let someone come back whole rather than composed. Giving people room to breathe in their grief is a skill every organization would be well served by, because everyone passes through it eventually.

Attendee Results:
- Recognize the difference between a recovered employee and a performing one
- Understand why month four is often harder than week one
- Learn what the return-to-work conversation should and shouldn't contain
- See how unnamed grief shows up in your engagement and attrition data
- Rethink the timeline your policy quietly assumes

Manager Training, Difficult Conversations & Empathic Listening

Most managers freeze when someone returns from bereavement leave, especially if there was a tragic or emergent loss. It comes not from indifference, but from fear of getting it wrong. So they say nothing, but for the person returning, the silence can come across as not caring. Or they reach for a phrase they've heard before, like time will make it better or they are in a better place, and the person walks away feeling worse than before anyone spoke.

This is the most practical session AmarAtma teaches. Real language for moments that many dread: the check-in that helps versus the one that isolates, what to do about the anniversary, how to respond when someone is clearly not okay but hasn't asked for anything, and how to stay in a conversation you cannot fix.

Chaplains are trained for being present in the moment with a skill set called empathic listening. Managers can learn it too, and the results in team cohesion can be astounding. People feeling seen and heard are more likely to stay with a company.

Attendee Results:
- Practice specific language for the first conversation after a loss
- Know how to check in without turning it into a status report
- Understand what to do when there is nothing to do
- Gain confidence to stay present rather than disappear
Loss Beyond Death: Layoffs, Reorgs, and the Grief Companies Cause

Loss Beyond Death: Layoffs, Reorgs, and the Grief Companies Cause

This is a topic very rarely mentioned in company briefings. A restructuring, a role dissolved, a team dissolved, a mission quietly abandoned: these are real losses for the people working in them, and they produce real grief inside the organization that caused them. Grief and the emotional changes within it can occur in non-death-related circumstances too.

The people who remain are usually asked to move on immediately, often by leaders carrying their own unspoken version of the same thing.

Naming it isn't weakness or an apology. It's the difference between a team that recovers trust and one that goes flat for a year. AmarAtma brings the same framework he uses in his coaching work to the losses organizations create on purpose, and to the harder question of how to lead honestly through one and what is realistic to expect afterwards.

Attendee Results:
- Recognize grief responses in teams after restructuring or layoffs
- Understand why survivor guilt suppresses candor and slows recovery
- Learn how to acknowledge a loss you are responsible for causing
- Distinguish honest acknowledgment from performative empathy
- Lead a transition without requiring people to pretend it costs nothing

AmarAtma Singh Khalsa Videos

April 22, 2026 Amar Atma Capstone

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The Tender Art of Grieving: Embodied Practices for Letting Go and Finding Peace

How do I book AmarAtma Singh Khalsa to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like AmarAtma Singh Khalsa for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for AmarAtma Singh Khalsa, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for AmarAtma Singh Khalsa or any other speaker of your choice.
What are the speaker fees for AmarAtma Singh Khalsa

Speaking fees for AmarAtma Singh Khalsa, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book AmarAtma Singh Khalsa are under $10,000 for live events and under $10,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire AmarAtma Singh Khalsa, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
What topics does AmarAtma Singh Khalsa speak about?

AmarAtma Singh Khalsa is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Human Resources, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Non-Fiction Authors, Personal Growth, Stress Management
Where does AmarAtma Singh Khalsa travel from?

AmarAtma Singh Khalsa generally travels from Cambridge, MA, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
Who is AmarAtma Singh Khalsa’s agent?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like AmarAtma Singh Khalsa for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book AmarAtma Singh Khalsa for your next private or corporate function.
What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host AmarAtma Singh Khalsa or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

AmarAtma Singh Khalsa is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Grief in the Workplace, Organizational Culture & Employee Wellbeing, Return to Work, Employee Retention & Burnout Prevention after a Signifigant Loss, Manager Training, Difficult Conversations & Empathic Listening and Loss Beyond Death: Layoffs, Reorgs, and the Grief Companies Cause. The estimated speaking fee range to book AmarAtma Singh Khalsa for your event is available upon request. AmarAtma Singh Khalsa generally travels from Cambridge, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Pamela Malkoff, Light Watkins, Taylor Elyse Morrison, Koya Webb and Gill Hasson. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling AmarAtma Singh Khalsa for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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Loss Beyond Death: Layoffs, Reorgs, and the Grief Companies Cause

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