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This, too, is part of the story: Tools for leaders, professionals, and families navigating vicarious trauma, moral injury, and grief

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Dr. Gretchen Schmelzer is the co-founder of the Center for Trauma and Leadership—an organization that redefines how leaders lead through high stress, crisis, and trauma. Dr. Schmelzer is a licensed psychologist, executive coach, and consultant who has worked for 25 years with the complex issues of trauma, integration, and behavior change across every level of system from individuals, to groups, to large systems and countries. She is the author of Journey Through Trauma, published by Penguin Random House. Her expertise in long-term trauma was used to inform the design and delivery of a large scale intervention for the UN in Cambodia working with survivors of the Khmer Rouge in a leadership initiative to strengthen the country’s response to HIV/AIDS. She is currently a faculty member in the Medical Education Masters Program at UPENN GSE. She was recently featured on CNN with Anderson Cooper and Working from Home with Richard Quest. Gretchen lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts.