“I’m not going to say it was any prettier than it was, but it was an honour to take care of him. He was a great husband”.

In “My life Caring for Frank”, Carol Weisman shares as she talks about her life caring for her beloved husband Frank.

She put a pause on her consultancy and speaking. She's now returning to international work, grateful for the time she spent with Frank and looking forward to connecting with the world once again.

Carol Weisman founded Board Builders, an international consultant firm focused on fundraising, philanthropy, and governance in 1994. She is the author of 11 books and is writing her 12th. In 2020, her husband Frank Robbins was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease, and spinal stenosis.

Carol had to take a pause on her consultancy and speaking business to care for him. Frank, sadly passed away in January of 2025. Carol is now returning to international work, grateful for the time she spent with Frank. In Life After Loss, she speaks candidly about connecting with the world once again and how life is looking since losing Frank.

“I started grieving the day that he was diagnosed. Because there was no medication. I knew there was no hope. This was such a downward spiral, Frank died a little bit every day.”

Carol’s endearing recollection brings her realistic vibe to a very painful experience. As a listener, you are guaranteed a smile as well as a tear.

“Following a loss, the biggest problem is loneliness especially if you were connected to a lot of people because of your spouse or your work.” says Carol.

Carol has started internet dating, describing dating at 76 as really "bizarre”.

She ends encouragingly. “You recover at that point, it’s a process. It's not an event. You don’t all of a sudden wake up, go to a, some kind of meeting and you're okay. Every death is different, every journey of healing, recovery, and repair is different. You have got to find the pathway that works for you.”

Stephen Light shines light on Team Resiliency. “What makes a high-performing, resilient team is when people know that they feel safe on that team.”

He says “The teams who stick together, the teams who understand that we have each other's backs. They feel safe around each other. They trust each other. They are aligned on a common vision, a common effort that they are working towards. They talk with each other, recognising where each other are, they are human to human with each other. And what that does is help people’s resiliency come out, because, when you are alone in the job that you do and you are operating in a silo in the team that you operate in, you don't have meaning, you don't have fulfilment, and life is hard. When a team isn't skilled on how to navigate differences they have between each other, what tends to happen is polarisation”.