Danielle Franck has spent her career on every side of bereavement care in healthcare: as a nonprofit founder, a hospital bereavement program coordinator, a chaplain, and an advocate who helped shape state policy. She now brings that full picture to healthcare teams across the country.
For over seven years, Danielle founded and led Loving Tanner, a nonprofit supporting families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss. That work wasn't advocacy from the outside. It meant getting care boxes, miscarriage support resources, and CuddleCots into hospitals that didn't have them yet. It meant building education for staff who wanted to do right by grieving families but had never been trained on how. It meant sitting across the table from hospital administrators and making the case, program by program, hospital by hospital.
Before she ever stepped onto a stage, Danielle worked as a Bereavement Program Coordinator, building and strengthening bereavement care from inside hospital walls. She later served as a hospital chaplain, providing emotional and spiritual support to patients, families, and the clinicians caring for them, often in the same shift.
Along the way, she worked alongside nurses, physicians, hospital leadership, nonprofit partners, and legislators to move bereavement care forward at a systems level, work that contributed to Everly's Law becoming Texas state policy.
That's the part most speakers on this topic don't have: years spent in the room where the actual work gets built, funded, and sustained.
Danielle's own son, Tanner, was stillborn. That loss didn't just change her personally. It changed how she sees every hospital hallway, every policy, every moment a family spends waiting for news. She knows firsthand what a family carries out of a hospital room, and what a single moment of real presence from a nurse, chaplain, or physician can mean on the worst day of someone's life.
She doesn't lead with that story to move a room. She leads with it because it's the honest answer to why this work matters so much to her. Everything she has built since, the nonprofit, the program coordination, the policy work, the keynotes, comes from that same place: a refusal to let any family go through this without someone who knows what they need.
Danielle with the heartbeat bear honoring her son, Tanner.
Danielle works with hospitals, conferences, and healthcare organizations in two ways: as a keynote speaker who leaves rooms with practical, usable tools, not just a moving hour, and as a consultant who helps healthcare teams build bereavement care that actually holds up under real staffing, real budgets, and real turnover.
Her sessions are built for people who are already doing hard work and don't have time for platitudes. She gives them language for hard conversations, frameworks for building sustainable programs, and a clearer sense of why the small moments are the ones families never forget.
Compassion isn't a personality trait. It's a practice, and it can be built into a team the same way any other skill is: with training, language, and leadership that make it stick.
Danielle's message is not about doing more. Healthcare teams are already stretched thin. It is about seeing differently, so that the care already being given lands the way it was meant to. Her work as a bereavement care educator and national healthcare consultant, and her contribution to Everly's Law in Texas, all return to one belief: every family, every time.
- Founder, Loving Tanner (7+ years)
- Former Bereavement Program Coordinator
- Former Hospital Chaplain
- Contributing Expert, Everly's Law (Texas)
- National Healthcare Consultant & Educator
- Keynote & Conference Speaker
- Partnering with hospitals across the United States
Every Family. Every Time.