What is WorkHurt?
WorkHurt™: the silent injuries professionals carry from toxic workplaces and fractured systems, resulting in broken trust, disengagement, and the erosion of fairness. These wounds directly impact resilience, performance, and long-term career success.
Join Us for WorkHurt™ to Healing
Seating is limited for this powerful gathering at Howard University. Together, we’ll explore how workplace trauma, grief, and health challenges impact our lives—and how self-care can move us toward wholeness. ✨ Reserve your seat today and take the first step in your healing journey.
Speakers
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Yuri Brown-Cruzat
Founder, Workhurt.co
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Veronica "So Creative" Essex
Writer, Spoken Word artist, and Creative Wellness Facilitator
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Jocelyn Johnson, MS, CNS
Founder of Trillium & Lotus Whole Body Wellness and Elliot James Naturals
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Anita Plummer, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership & Associate professor of African Studies at Howard University.
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Madia Logan, MBA
Founder, Logan PR & Alignable Ambassador for Prince George’s County
WorkHurt™ HR Enablement: Lean Six Sigma + AI for People Strategy
In times of disruption, disengagement, and rising toxicity, HR leaders can’t rely on intuition alone. They need rigor, clarity, and analytics to design people strategies that actually move performance.
This guided session equips CHROs, HR professionals, and business leaders to apply Lean Six Sigma methodology and AI prompt engineering directly to their toughest workplace challenges—transforming HR into a trusted, data-driven business partner.
Why Now
Disruption is at an all-time high. Employees are being overlooked, disengagement is rising, and toxicity is quietly eroding productivity. Meanwhile, HR is being asked to prove impact without the right tools.
This is the moment for HR to step forward.
With Lean Six Sigma and AI fluency, HR professionals gain a new superpower: the ability to diagnose, design, and deliver people strategies that heal workplaces, build trust, and drive measurable performance.
What You’ll Gain
Master Process Discipline
Apply DMAIC to improve existing HR processes and DMADVI to design new systems built for today’s workforce.Harness AI Prompt Engineering
Learn how to generate insights, workflows, and engagement strategies that accelerate decision-making.Translate Strategy into Measurable Outcomes
Build KPIs, dashboards, and accountability tools that link people initiatives to business results.Elevate HR’s Role
Become the skilled, trusted advisor your organization turns to for clarity in uncertain times.
Bring WorkHurt™ HR Enablement to Your Team
Book a Discovery Call
Join the Early Access Cohort
Transform how you work, lead, and live.
We help professionals and organizations move beyond workplace wounds to unlock resilience, restore trust, and build healing-centered cultures.
Healing Cohorts
A powerful 90-day group experience designed for professionals who want to reclaim energy, strengthen resilience, and grow in community. Healing Cohorts are where purpose meets practice—where you learn how to move through stress and conflict with clarity, intention, and support.
Format
3 teams of 8 participants per quarter
Guided group sessions, practical exercises, and peer accountability
A mix of reflection, skill-building, and real-time application
Investment
$1,500 per participant
What You Gain
Practical Tools: Proven strategies for managing stress, navigating conflict, and maintaining balance in demanding environments.
A Supportive Community: Peers who share your journey—encouraging, challenging, and celebrating progress together.
Your Personal Resilience Roadmap: A customized plan for sustaining energy, focus, and purpose beyond the 90 days.
Healing Cohorts are not just about coping—they’re about building the capacity to thrive, lead, and live with greater intention.
Your Voice Matters. Your Healing Starts Here.
The WorkHurt™ Experience Survey is a safe, confidential way to share your workplace story. By speaking your truth, you take the first step in naming your own path toward healing.
At the same time, your voice becomes part of something bigger. Each response helps us gather valuable data—revealing patterns of harm, resilience, and recovery across industries. Together, these insights guide solutions that support healthier, more human-centered workplaces.
Individual Resilience Coaching
Strengthen from the inside out.
Work can take a toll, but you don’t have to carry it alone. Yuri’s one-on-one resilience coaching is a guided journey designed to help you:
Identify patterns of stress, burnout, or conflict that are holding you back.
Learn evidence-based tools to manage emotions, reset energy, and navigate challenges.
Build confidence in your purpose, boundaries, and voice.
Create a personal resilience roadmap you can return to again and again.
This is a confidential, supportive space where your healing and growth are the focus. Coaching is about more than coping — it’s about reclaiming your strength, clarity, and direction so you can thrive in every part of your life.
Organizational Healing & Culture Shaping Strategy
Build workplaces where people and performance flourish.
WorkHurt isn’t just an individual problem — it’s a systemic one. Yuri partners with leaders, HR teams, and executives to design cultures that heal rather than harm. Through tailored strategy sessions and facilitated workshops, organizations gain:
Honest assessments of where workplace “hurt” shows up in culture, systems, and leadership.
Data-driven insights from the WorkHurt™ Experience Survey and internal human capital analytics.
Actionable strategies for addressing conflict, stress, and inequity.
Roadmaps for cultivating resilience, trust, and sustainable performance across teams.
Ongoing support to embed healing practices into daily operations and leadership behaviors.
This isn’t a quick fix. It’s a transformation. Together, we reimagine the workplace so that well-being and productivity work hand-in-hand — building a culture where people can do their best work without losing themselves in the process.
About
Yuri Brown-Cruzat
Yuri Brown-Cruzat is a seasoned Human Capital and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience designing measurement-driven culture strategies, transformation processes, and inclusive leadership frameworks for global organizations.
As a trusted advisor—now as Executive in Residence at Talmetrix—Yuri guides C-Suite executives from Fortune-level companies like Ralph Lauren, Gulfstream Aerospace, and General Dynamics to define their leadership legacy, tailor people strategies, and enhance organizational effectiveness.
Previously, she served as Vice President of Workplace Rights at Workhuman, and held Chief Diversity Officer roles at both Fannie Mae and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Yuri’s expertise spans:
Six Sigma-based and data-informed DEI metrics, strategy, and system design
Elevating employee engagement and reducing bias in performance and succession
Building inclusion-centered leadership competencies and high-performing environments
Coaching individuals, teams, and senior leaders through sustainable culture change and personal resilience journeys