Your people don't leave because someone died. They leave because of what happened next.
Keynotes, conference panels and expert commentary on what grief does to people, to teams, and to the places they work.
Two minutes in the room.
people are grieving at any given time. Almost none were handed a plan.
Bronze · Overcoming the Odds
Women Changing The World Global Awards, 2026
Finalist · Changemaker
Women Changing The World Global Awards, 2026
Finalist · Wellbeing Programs
Women Changing The World Global Awards, 2026
Silver · Wellbeing Programs
Women Changing The World Awards, Australia & the Pacific, 2025
Mental Health First Aid accredited.
Corporate stages
What duty of care actually looks like when grief walks into the workplace. One in four employees is grieving at any time.
Conferences and panels
Rooms of hundreds left thinking about how to plan ahead, support someone they know, or be a better leader.
Podcasts and media
Honest conversations about grief, rebuilding, and what nobody prepares you for - plus real ways people can help.
Training and advisory
The words, the protocols and the policies that make support last beyond the first fortnight.
Often booked around R U OK? Day, World Mental Health Day, International Women's Day, Women's Health Week and Small Business Month.
The cost of getting grief wrong at work
One in four of your people are grieving. Ashleigh was one of them, and she has spent years working out what a workplace can actually do about it.
What grief actually costs a business, why the usual response runs out after a fortnight, and what to do instead.
What the room walks out with
- 01A straight account of what grief costs in performance, absence and resignations.
- 02Why flowers, a card and an EAP number are not support.
- 03What to do at month three, month six and the anniversary.
- 04Language managers can use the same week, without fear of saying the wrong thing.
- 05What to do when it's your teammate, not your report.
What people say once Ashleigh has left the stage.
Her vulnerability, warmth, empathy and compassion shines through in every articulate word she speaks, and you could see women physically leaning in every time she did.Melissa BrowneFounder & Director
Her story will move and uplift your audience. Raw vulnerability, without sugar coating it, delivered with a strong focus on possibility rather than being a victim of her story.Cherie CanningFounder & Director, Luminate Leadership
Her message resonates deeply. More and more organisations, and the people within them, need to hear her story.Luke CookFounder
A keynote starts the conversation. These finish it.
Most organisations book the talk, then realise they need the words, the policy and the follow through. Ashleigh does all three.
Give managers the words.
What to say, what to stop saying, and how to handle leave, workload and the team conversation without adding shame.
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Build the capability.
Diagnostic, policy, protocols and training, so support does not depend on who happens to be managing whom.
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Say it in public.
A guest expert who can carry a segment on grief, work and the things people leave out. Lived experience, the numbers behind it, and an answer to the question everyone is too polite to ask.
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A grief-informed advisor, not a motivational speaker.
Ashleigh Conwell was 29 and 17 weeks pregnant with triplets when her husband died suddenly. She went looking for practical help and could not find it, so she built it.
Yellow Falcon™ is now Australia's first fully integrated grief support ecosystem. Lived experience, made practical, designed to scale.
Every podcast Ashleigh has been on.
Honest conversations about grief, work and what nobody prepares you for.
We don't whisper about grief.
No timelines, no closure, no promise that it gets easier by a certain date. Ashleigh tells your people the truth about what is coming, and what to do about it.
Book Ashleigh for your event
If your organisation, team, audience or conference needs this conversation in the room, let's talk.
Need to get it past someone else first?
The speaker kit has Ashleigh's bio, topics, past stages, headshots and the reel in one folder. Forward it to whoever signs off.
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