Dr. Anitra Manning, widely known as The Everyday Grief Coach, has spent more than two decades guiding individuals and organizations through some of life’s most challenging transitions. With a career spanning leadership roles at IBM, Truist, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Dr. Manning has consistently championed resilience, transformation, and legacy-building in every space she enters. She founded the Meredith College Institute for Women’s Leadership, redesigned executive and board development programs at Girl Scouts of the USA, and has shaped national conversations around women’s leadership and empowerment. Today, as Founder of Everyday Grief and creator of the Be Your Own Light® framework, she equips individuals to turn disruption—whether layoffs, promotions, or identity shifts—into healing, resilience, and purposeful living. Her work blends emotional intelligence, spiritual wisdom, and actionable strategy, making her one of the most sought-after voices in transformational coaching and leadership development.

This October, Dr. Manning will join the stage at Becoming Love Fest 2025 in Atlanta as a featured panelist for Reimagining Family: Healing, Belonging & Radical Kinship. This groundbreaking conversation will dive deep into how family—both biological and chosen—shapes our sense of self, our capacity for love, and our ability to thrive. Alongside other visionary leaders, Dr. Manning will help attendees explore how to untangle intergenerational trauma, rewrite inherited narratives, and step into the freedom of radical kinship. With her signature blend of compassion and strategy, she will offer practical tools and soulful wisdom to help participants strengthen boundaries, nurture intentional communities, and create chosen family networks rooted in love and liberation.

Becoming Love Fest isn’t just an event—it’s a movement. With a star-studded lineup of healers, artists, and thought leaders, the festival is designed to awaken new ways of being and expand what love looks like in our lives and communities. Dr. Anitra Manning’s presence ensures that attendees will leave not only inspired but also equipped with the tools to transform pain into purpose, grief into resilience, and disconnection into belonging. This is more than a panel—it’s an invitation to heal, grow, and imagine family in ways that nurture flourishing for generations to come.