Finding Hope After Loss: Navigating What's Next and How You Get There

We all experience some level of loss throughout our lives. Loss is everywhere in our world, even though we do our best to ignore it, sweep under the rug and avoid the reality it brings. From the loss of a relationship, a friendship, a promotion, a job, a pet, stamina, mental sharpness, agility due to aging, rejection from a school or a parenting empty nest to the more extreme life changing losses such as a divorce, domestic violence, a relative, a family member, a parent, a child, a spouse, a miscarriage-Loss impacts and affects your happiness.

Finding Hope after Loss assimilates real life experiences, challenges, and adaptability to life's major adversities, mapping a pathway for building, growing and nurturing emotional fortitude, while outlining key skills, habits and tools that support thriving, not just surviving, throughout dramatic change. This book addresses a paramount need for a new approach to manage this extraordinarily tenuous part of your life. Follow the journey and discussion to challenge and find your path. Each paragraph and chapter serves as a building block to what is next and how to get there from voices of who have gone through it.

Drawing on personal experiences as a Father, a Son, a Husband, a Widower, and a CEO building companies and implementing change management, this book offers an in-depth roadmap for navigating modern challenges of the What’s Next after a loss. My professional training in analytical sciences, experiences in leading business change in concert with my deep personal experiences refines and unites to inform a unique perspective. The roadmap helps the reader look in the mirror to optimize and personalize Hope, Adaptability and Emotional Awareness the building blocks of resilience.

Stedman Stevens is a senior executive with a record of success leading new business strategies in multiple industries as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. He has served on numerous Boards from Hospital Systems with over a $1B in revenues to an Endowment with over $1.3B in assets. Stedman has been on the front line of healthcare managing clinical trials, accelerating medical device development, building physician education programs for top pharmaceutical companies, leading strategy as Board of Directors for a $1B health system and working on aging issues for retirement care and senior living facilities. He has a proven record of innovation and strong ability to commercialize products, including creating new distribution channels in drugstores, developing new intelligence rules for physicians to detect opioid abuse, accelerating technical development of a diabetes mobile application, and building a completely new and first to market aviation sensor technology. He is a strategic problem solver with significant experience in integrating acquisitions, and has been involved in 6 transactions as CEO, equity partner or professional management on the buy and sell side. Stedman has a history of successes in international business, negotiating production, sales and distribution agreements in several countries, while volunteering most of his life to more than a dozen non-profit organizations. Stedman has degrees in Chemistry, Zoology, Forensic Science and Pharmaceutical Outcomes. He is the author of A Beautiful Life...The little things that help grieving families, which chronicles his journey losing his wife suddenly to pancreatic cancer. He has published more than a dozen peer reviewed medical articles, marketing strategies and is a featured author on Opentohope.org.