Mindy Corporon lost her father and her son in 2014 when a gunman opened fire outside the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas. The same year, Lisa Cooper published a memoir about the lessons she learned about life and death in the wake of her mother’s passing.
The two met in 2016 at an event for Corporon’s foundation, where they connected over their shared experiences as managers who had survived grief despite the various workplace obstacles they faced in the process, most notable being leadership’s overall inexperience when dealing with death.
