Positive psychology practitioner
Grief educator
You can fall back in love with life even while carrying the heaviest loss.
I'm not going to tell you grief has a timeline, or that healing looks a
certain way. What I will tell you is this: it's possible to find joy, purpose,
and vitality again — not after your grief, but alongside it. Through a
framework grounded in positive psychology and lived experience,
I help people discover their own path back to a life they truly love.
Keynote speaker
Positive psychology practitioner
Grief educator
You can fall back in love with life even while carrying the heaviest loss.
I'm not going to tell you grief has a timeline, or that healing looks a certain way. What I will tell you is this: it's possible to find joy, purpose, and vitality again — not after your grief, but alongside it. Through a framework grounded in positive psychology and lived experience, I help people discover their own path back to a life they truly love.
Keynote speaker
"I had to become the voice I was looking for."
When my daughter Rumi died from cancer — ten days old, nine months fighting, then gone,
I found myself in a place so dark I could barely breathe. I thought about leaving this earth too. Many times.
I looked for someone who could show me how to live again. Not just survive. Not just get through the days. But actually live
with joy, with purpose, with love still in my heart. I couldn't find that voice. So I decided to become it.
"I didn't find a perfect recipe for healing. I found something better a framework that helped me discover my own."
Grounded in positive psychology, the oscillation theory, and the hard-won wisdom of walking through the deepest kind of loss, I developed a way of moving through grief that doesn't ask you to bypass your pain — or your joy. It invites you to hold both.
Today I work with individuals, organisations, and audiences around the world. helping people find resilience, meaning, and a life they genuinely love again. Not a lesser version of life. A life that carries it, and somehow, because of it, burns even brighter.
"Every time I find love, I am oscillating back to her."
This work is personal. It always will be. And that's exactly why I know it works.
"I had to become the voice
I was looking for."
When my daughter Rumi died from cancer — ten days old, nine months fighting, then gone,I found myself in a place so dark I could barely breathe. I thought about leaving this earth too. Many times.
I looked for someone who could show me how to live again. Not just survive. Not just get through the days. But actually live
with joy, with purpose, with love still in my heart. I couldn't find that voice. So I decided to become it.
"I didn't find a perfect recipe for healing. I found something better a framework that helped me discover my own."
Grounded in positive psychology, the oscillation theory, and the hard-won wisdom of walking through the deepest kind of loss, I developed a way of moving through grief that doesn't ask you to bypass your pain — or your joy. It invites you to hold both.
Today I work with individuals, organisations, and audiences around the world. helping people find resilience, meaning, and a life they genuinely love again. Not a lesser version of life. A life that carries it, and somehow, because of it, burns even brighter.
"Every time I find love, I am oscillating back to her."
This work is personal. It always will be. And that's exactly why I know it works.
Keynote
Oscillating Back to Love
A keynote about grief, resilience, and falling back in love with life.
What if the heaviest loss you've ever carried could also be the thing that brought you back to life? Not after the grief. Not once you've healed. But right in the middle of it — while you're still carrying it.
That's not a motivational promise. It's Kim McInnes' lived story. And it's the science-backed framework she built from it.
About this keynote
When Kim's daughter Rumi died from cancer at just nine months old, she found herself in a crater so dark she could barely breathe. She searched for a voice that could show her how to live again — not just survive, but truly live. She couldn't find it. So she became it.
Drawing on positive psychology, the oscillation theory, and the raw reality of rebuilding after unimaginable loss, Kim takes audiences on a journey from the depths of grief to the extraordinary life waiting on the other side — not by bypassing pain, but by learning to dance with it.
"Healing isn't a straight line. It's a dance between honouring your pain and
leaning back into love. And you get to move at your own rhythm."
Audiences leave with more than inspiration. They leave with a framework a way of thinking about
their own grief, loss, or heaviness that actually makes sense of the messiness of being human.
What your audience will take away
A new way to understand grief — not as something to overcome, but as something to move alongside
The oscillation framework — a practical, science-backed model for processing loss and rebuilding joy
Permission to find joy, purpose, and vitality again — without guilt, without a timeline, without a perfect recipe
Formats available
Keynote: 45–60
minutes
Short keynote: 20–30 minutes
Workshop / breakout session
This keynote is a fit for
Grief & bereavement organisations
Health & wellbeing conferences
Corporate conferences
Leadership events
Women's events & retreats
Kim brings warmth, lived authority, and genuine science to every stage. Her talks move people and then equip them. If you're looking for a speaker who leaves your audience changed, not just inspired, let's talk.
Extraordinary After
Rebuild a life you love at your own pace.
Something happened. And now there's a before and an after and you're standing in the middle, trying to figure out how to live in the after.
Extraordinary After is for anyone in a heavy season who feels, somewhere beneath it all, a quiet flicker of something that wants to live fully again. This is where that flicker becomes a flame.
"This isn't a perfect recipe. It's a framework that helps you discover your own because your path back, like your story, is uniquely yours."
Is this for you?
Extraordinary After is for anyone who has been through something that changed everything —
and is ready to find their way back to a life that feels genuinely alive.
You might be carrying:
The loss of someone you love
Divorce or relationship breakdown
A health diagnosis
A quiet sense that there must be more
Job loss or career change
An identity shift
Burnout or exhaustion
A life that's lost its colour
Whatever your heavy season — this course meets you there.
Who it resonates with
The world has moved on but you haven't — and you're not sure how
You want to feel joy again but don't know where to start — or feel guilty when you do
You know something extraordinary is possible — you just can't see the path yet
You've kept busy but the heaviness keeps finding you anyway
You're ready to honour what you've been through AND reclaim your life — at the same time
You want tools grounded in science, not just sympathy
Inside the course
Five modules. One deeply personal journey. Moving from understanding to
feeling to truly living again.
Journalling · Physical wellbeing · Positive psychology
We begin with the ground beneath your feet. You'll explore the oscillation theory and positive psychology principles that underpin this entire journey, and build the daily practices — journalling, physical wellbeing, and intentional rituals — that will anchor you through everything that follows. You'll also receive your Vitality Toolkit and learn how to make it your own.
Values · Strengths · Purpose · Mindset · Inner healing
Heavy seasons have a way of making you forget who you are — or question everything you thought you knew. This module is about rediscovering yourself from the inside out. You'll uncover your values, strengths, and deeper purpose, explore the beliefs and patterns quietly holding you back, and begin the tender work of healing the parts of you that have been carrying too much for too long.
Release · Regulate · Nourish · Connect · Protect
This is where the real alchemy happens. You'll meet your emotions with wisdom and compassion — learning not to fight them, bypass them, or be swept away by them, but to move through them with grace. Through five powerful pillars — Release, Regulate, Nourish, Connect, and Protect — you'll restore the energy, calm, and sense of self that the heavy season quietly took.
Understanding · Coping · Honouring · Making meaning
For those who want to go deeper into grief specifically. This module helps you understand your loss more fully — the layers of it, the physiology of it, the meaning within it. You'll find your own ways to cope, to honour what you've lost, and to begin making something meaningful from the hardest thing you've ever carried.
Goals · Integration · Living your transformation
This is where everything comes together — and becomes who you are. You'll finalise your personalised Vitality Toolkit, integrate everything you've discovered, and create a sustainable plan for conscious, aligned living. You don't just leave changed. You leave equipped, grounded, and genuinely excited about what comes next.
Extraordinary After
Rebuild a life you love at your own pace.
Something happened. And now there's a before and an after and you're standing in the middle, trying to figure out how to live in the after.
Extraordinary After is for anyone in a heavy season who feels, somewhere beneath it all, a quiet flicker of something that wants to live fully again. This is where that flicker becomes a flame.
"This isn't a perfect recipe. It's a framework that helps you discover your own because your path back, like your story, is uniquely yours."
Is this for you?
Extraordinary After is for anyone who has been through something that changed everything — and is ready to find their way back to a life that feels genuinely alive.
You might be carrying:
The loss of someone you love
Divorce or relationship breakdown
A health diagnosis
A quiet sense that there must be more
Job loss or career change
An identity shift
Burnout or exhaustion
A life that's lost its colour
Whatever your heavy season — this course meets you there.
Who it resonates with
The world has moved on but you haven't — and you're not sure how
You want to feel joy again but don't know where to start — or feel guilty when you do
You know something extraordinary is possible — you just can't see the path yet
You've kept busy but the heaviness keeps finding you anyway
You're ready to honour what you've been through AND reclaim your life — at the same time
You want tools grounded in science, not just sympathy
Inside the course
Five modules. One deeply personal journey. Moving from understanding to
feeling to truly living again.
Journalling · Physical wellbeing · Positive psychology
We begin with the ground beneath your feet. You'll explore the oscillation theory and positive psychology principles that underpin this entire journey, and build the daily practices — journalling, physical wellbeing, and intentional rituals — that will anchor you through everything that follows. You'll also receive your Vitality Toolkit and learn how to make it your own.
Values · Strengths · Purpose · Mindset · Inner healing
Heavy seasons have a way of making you forget who you are — or question everything you thought you knew. This module is about rediscovering yourself from the inside out. You'll uncover your values, strengths, and deeper purpose, explore the beliefs and patterns quietly holding you back, and begin the tender work of healing the parts of you that have been carrying too much for too long.
Release · Regulate · Nourish · Connect · Protect
This is where the real alchemy happens. You'll meet your emotions with wisdom and compassion — learning not to fight them, bypass them, or be swept away by them, but to move through them with grace. Through five powerful pillars — Release, Regulate, Nourish, Connect, and Protect — you'll restore the energy, calm, and sense of self that the heavy season quietly took.
Understanding · Coping · Honouring · Making meaning
For those who want to go deeper into grief specifically. This module helps you understand your loss more fully — the layers of it, the physiology of it, the meaning within it. You'll find your own ways to cope, to honour what you've lost, and to begin making something meaningful from the hardest thing you've ever carried.
Goals · Integration · Living your transformation
This is where everything comes together — and becomes who you are. You'll finalise your personalised Vitality Toolkit, integrate everything you've discovered, and create a sustainable plan for conscious, aligned living. You don't just leave changed. You leave equipped, grounded, and genuinely excited about what comes next.
Your personalised Vitality Toolkit
One of the most tangible things you'll create inside Extraordinary After is your own Vitality Toolkit — a deeply personal collection
of the practices, anchors, and rituals that restore your energy, reconnect you to joy, and keep you moving forward.
You'll build it from Module 1 and refine it all the way through to Module 5. It leaves with you. It's yours for life.
What you'll come out with
A deep understanding of what you're carrying — and why it moves the way it does
A personal emotional regulation practice that actually works for you
Your personalised Vitality Toolkit — a lifelong companion for conscious living
Clarity on your values, strengths, and what truly matters to you now
Freedom from the guilt of feeling good — because joy and heaviness can coexist
A sustainable plan for a life full of energy, purpose, joy and love
A life that carries what happened — and still burns extraordinarily bright
"I didn't find a perfect recipe. I found a framework that helped me discover my own.
That's exactly what I want to give you."
Training & Facilitation
Grief in the Workplace
What every leader needs to know — and every team deserves to feel.
Grief doesn't clock off at 9am. It walks into your workplace every day in the colleague who just lost a parent, the manager who doesn't know what to say, the team quietly carrying loss while hitting their KPIs.
Most organisations don't have a grief problem. They have a grief literacy problem. And that gap costs more than people realise — in productivity, in retention, in the quiet erosion of psychological safety.
Kim McInnes helps organisations close that gap. With warmth, science, and the kind of lived authority that makes people lean in and listen.
Why this matters to your organisation
Grief is one of the most universal human experiences — and one of the least supported
in the workplace. The cost isn't just human. It's measurable.
Percentage of employees affected
Manager preparedness stats
Productivity
cost
The organisations that get this right don't just retain good people.They build the kind of culture where people
feel safe enough to bring their whole selves — and do their best work.The signature session
This is not a heavy, clinical session about death and dying. It is a warm, practical, science-backed conversation about what grief actually looks like at work — and what leaders, managers, and teams can do to navigate it with compassion and confidence. "People don't need their workplace to fix their grief. They need it to not make it worse."
Drawing on frameworks from positive psychology, grief literacy research, and her own lived experience, Kim equips your people with the language, tools, and permission to show up for each other — even when it's hard.
Your people will leave with
A grounded understanding of what grief looks like — and why it behaves the way it does
Confidence for managers navigating a team member through loss
Practical language for supporting a grieving colleague — without saying the wrong thing
A shift in culture — from avoiding grief to holding space for it with grace
Permission — for both leaders and employees — to be human at work
Designed for every level of your organisation
Senior leaders & executives
Set the cultural tone from the top — understanding how grief affects performance, retention, and psychological safety.
Managers & team leaders
Practical tools for having the conversations that matter — without feeling out of their depth.
HR & people teams
Build grief-literate policies and practices that reflect your organisation's genuine care for its people.
All staff
Create a shared language and culture of compassion — so no one has to navigate loss alone at work.
Formats available
Keynote + Q&A: 45–60 minutes
Lunch & learn: 45–60 minutes
Half day workshop: Deep dive + tools
All sessions are tailored to your organisation, your people, and the moment you're in. Kim brings companion resources — including a manager reference guide and employee support guide — that extend the impact of the session long after the room empties. More coming soon More workplace wellbeing sessions are in development — covering resilience, navigating change, and building thriving teams. Get in touch to be first to hear what's coming.
Start here — whenever you're ready.
Not everyone is ready to dive into a course or book a session. Sometimes you just need somewhere to begin something that
meets you where you are right now, without pressure or commitment. These resources are Kim's gift to you.
Free, practical, and created from the same place as everything else she does — lived experience,
positive psychology, and a genuine belief that a beautiful life is still possible, even from here.
Free guide
How to Support Someone You Love Through Grief
A gentle, practical guide for the people who want to help but don't know how
You love someone who is grieving. And you want to show up for them — but grief can feel like a minefield. What do you say? What do you do? What if you make it worse? This guide gives you simple, honest, human answers. No platitudes. No scripts. Just real ways to be there — in the moments that matter most.
For: Anyone supporting a loved one, friend, or colleague through grief or loss
Free webinar
The Gentle Way
Through
A free webinar for anyone in a heavy season who wants to find their way back to life.
This is the session Kim wishes had existed when she was in the thick of it. In this free webinar she walks you through the oscillation framework, the science of resilience and post-traumatic growth, and the first practical steps toward rebuilding a life you genuinely love — even while you're still carrying the heavy. Warm, real, and quietly life-changing.
For: Anyone navigating grief, loss, or a heavy season and wanting a way forward
Free quiz
Grief Literacy
Self-Assessment
How equipped is your organisation to support grieving employees?
Most organisations genuinely want to support their people through loss — they just don't know where the gaps are. This short self-assessment helps HR leaders, managers, and senior leaders understand their organisation's current grief literacy, identify where support is missing, and take confident first steps toward a more compassionate workplace culture.
For: HR teams, people leaders, and managers in organisations of any size
Your personalised Vitality Toolkit
One of the most tangible things you'll create inside Extraordinary After is your own Vitality Toolkit — a deeply personal collection of the practices, anchors, and rituals that restore your energy, reconnect you to joy, and keep you moving forward. You'll build it from Module 1 and refine it all the way through to Module 5. It leaves with you. It's yours for life.
What you'll come out with
A deep understanding of what you're carrying — and why it moves the way it does
A personal emotional regulation practice that actually works for you
Your personalised Vitality Toolkit — a lifelong companion for conscious living
Clarity on your values, strengths, and what truly matters to you now
Freedom from the guilt of feeling good — because joy and heaviness can coexist
A sustainable plan for a life full of energy, purpose, joy and love
A life that carries what happened — and still burns extraordinarily bright
"I didn't find a perfect recipe. I found a framework that helped me discover my own.
That's exactly what I want to give you."
Training & Facilitation
Grief in the Workplace
What every leader needs to know — and every team deserves to feel.
Grief doesn't clock off at 9am. It walks into your workplace every day in the colleague who just lost a parent, the manager who doesn't know what to say, the team quietly carrying loss while hitting their KPIs.
Most organisations don't have a grief problem. They have a grief literacy problem. And that gap costs more than people realise — in productivity, in retention, in the quiet erosion of psychological safety.
Kim McInnes helps organisations close that gap. With warmth, science, and the kind of lived authority that makes people lean in and listen.
Why this matters to your organisation
Grief is one of the most universal human experiences — and one of the least supported
in the workplace. The cost isn't just human. It's measurable.
Percentage of employees
affected
Manager preparedness
stats
Productivity
cost
The organisations that get this right don't just retain good people.They build the kind of culture where people feel safe enough to bring their whole selves — and do their best work.The signature session
This is not a heavy, clinical session about death and dying. It is a warm, practical, science-backed conversation about what grief actually looks like at work — and what leaders, managers, and teams can do to navigate it with compassion and confidence. "People don't need their workplace to fix their grief. They need it to not make it worse."
Drawing on frameworks from positive psychology, grief literacy research, and her own lived experience, Kim equips your people with the language, tools, and permission to show up for each other — even when it's hard.
Your people will leave with
A grounded understanding of what grief looks like — and why it behaves the way it does
Confidence for managers navigating a team member through loss
Practical language for supporting a grieving colleague — without saying the wrong thing
A shift in culture — from avoiding grief to holding space for it with grace
Permission — for both leaders and employees — to be human at work
Designed for every level of your organisation
Senior leaders & executives
Set the cultural tone from the top — understanding how grief affects performance, retention, and psychological safety.
Managers & team leaders
Practical tools for having the conversations that matter — without feeling out of their depth.
HR & people teams
Build grief-literate policies and practices that reflect your organisation's genuine care for its people.
All staff
Create a shared language and culture of compassion — so no one has to navigate loss alone at work.
Formats available
Keynote + Q&A: 45–60 minutes
Lunch & learn: 45–60 minutes
Half day workshop: Deep dive + tools
All sessions are tailored to your organisation, your people, and the moment you're in. Kim brings companion resources — including a manager reference guide and employee support guide — that extend the impact of the session long after the room empties. More coming soon More workplace wellbeing sessions are in development — covering resilience, navigating change, and building thriving teams. Get in touch to be first to hear what's coming.
Start here — whenever you're ready.
Not everyone is ready to dive into a course or book a session. Sometimes you just need somewhere to begin something that meets you where you are right now, without pressure or commitment. These resources are Kim's gift to you. Free, practical, and created from the same place as everything else she does — lived experience, positive psychology, and a genuine belief that a beautiful life is still possible, even from here.
Free guide
How to Support Someone You Love Through Grief
A gentle, practical guide for the people who want to help but don't know how
You love someone who is grieving. And you want to show up for them — but grief can feel like a minefield. What do you say? What do you do? What if you make it worse? This guide gives you simple, honest, human answers. No platitudes. No scripts. Just real ways to be there — in the moments that matter most.
For: Anyone supporting a loved one, friend, or colleague through grief or loss
Free webinar
The Gentle Way
Through
A free webinar for anyone in a heavy season who wants to find their way back to life.
This is the session Kim wishes had existed when she was in the thick of it. In this free webinar she walks you through the oscillation framework, the science of resilience and post-traumatic growth, and the first practical steps toward rebuilding a life you genuinely love — even while you're still carrying the heavy. Warm, real, and quietly life-changing.
For: Anyone navigating grief, loss, or a heavy season and wanting a way forward
Free quiz
Grief Literacy
Self-Assessment
How equipped is your organisation to support grieving employees?
Most organisations genuinely want to support their people through loss — they just don't know where the gaps are. This short self-assessment helps HR leaders, managers, and senior leaders understand their organisation's current grief literacy, identify where support is missing, and take confident first steps toward a more compassionate workplace culture.
For: HR teams, people leaders, and managers in organisations of any size
Creations from the Crater
Everything I made while finding my way back to the light. In my keynote I talk about creativity as my ladder out of the crater. how every word I wrote, every page I coloured, every journal I designed added light to the dark place. These are those creations.
They weren't made from a place of wholeness. They were made from the middle of grief, loss, and the fierce, quiet determination to rebuild a life worth living. And somehow, that's exactly what makes them what they are.Every one of these was made for Rumi. And for you.
The Rumi books — featured
The Rumi books
After Rumi died, I needed to keep creating for her — to keep her woven into the world in ways that could be seen, held, and loved. These five self-published children's books are that love made visible. Each one carries something of her spirit: warmth, wonder, and the gentle reminder that love doesn't end.
They exist because she did. And because the world is better with her in it even this way.
More made from the dark
Star Sign Manifestation Journals
Personal development journals built around the unique energy of each star sign because the path back to yourself is as individual as you are. Created when I needed to believe in
possibility again.
Goal Setting Journal
A journal for the person who is ready to start dreaming again — gently, intentionally, and without pressure. Because setting goals from the crater taught me that small steps forward are still steps forward.
Colouring Books
Colouring was one of the first things that let me be present without having to think or feel too hard. These books are made for exactly that — a gentle, creative pause when the world feels like too much.
And more
The crater kept producing. There is more and there will always be more. Because that's what creativity does when you let it. It keeps making light.
With every creation, my crater became a little less dark. Each one a stepping stone. A ladder up. A small act of defiance against the heaviness." If you're in your own crater right now, I hope something in these pages finds you. And I hope it reminds you that you are still
capable of making something beautiful, even from where you are.
Kim McInnes
Let's find your way forward together.
You don't have to have it all figured out before you reach out. In fact, not having it figured out is probably the perfect time.
Whether you're curious about coaching, want to bring Kim into your organisation, or you're an event planner
looking for a speaker who will genuinely move your audience. this is the right place to start.
"Every extraordinary life after starts with one small, brave step. This can be yours."
Let's find your way forward together.
You don't have to have it all figured out before you reach out. In fact, not having it figured out is probably the perfect time. Whether you're curious about coaching, want to bring Kim into your organisation, or you're an event planner looking for a speaker who will genuinely move your audience. this is the right place to start.
"Every extraordinary life after starts with one small, brave step. This can be yours."