There is no question that Grief has power over the lives of people dealing with the loss of a loved one. Yet the traditional way of coping with Grief appears to be shifting from a traditional step model, to a view that Grief may be analogous to a learning process. In this TEDxOldHickory talk, market researcher and data scientist Rob Farmer discusses his personal journey of recovery after the death of a loved one at a young age, and how that contributed to his leadership development over a period of many years. He explains how Grief has the possibility of sharpening skills such as learning, empathy and vision development, and how he incorporates those principles to coach colleagues through their own grief in the modern workplace.Rob Farmer has been working globally in market research roles for 20+ years with a passion for using data-driven market insights to improve large companies’ customer focus, generate revenue and accelerate go to market decision making. Increasingly, this has meant reaching far beyond traditional market research to include data science of all kinds including AI, social media, biometrics and geolocation sensors. Rob’s latest mission is to fuse all of these disparate data sources to improve the most challenging aspects of our personal and professional lives. Rob spent 15 years living abroad in Shanghai, Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo in executive roles at Nissan and General Motors. His latest assignment is in Tennessee, where he resides in the Nashville suburbs with his data scrum leader wife, with whom he parents both an LGBTQ budding neuropsychologist and an equestrian-loving adopted child. When not gigging on data and humans, The Farmers can be found travelling the globe.This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx