Bio

For as long as I can remember, I have loved bringing joy to people’s lives. Whether it was through entrepreneurial endeavors, like selling yummy homemade ice cream at our village shop, performing song, dance or diving board tricks for my Dad and his guests, or simply touching people’s hearts with a smile, a letter, a compliment, or a helping hand. I was the kid who at 12 years old answered the question of what I wanted to do when I grew up with “I want to bring peace to the world.”

I had always been an entrepreneur at heart.  I started an amateur business career very early in life, owning and operating various small companies in my late teens and early twenties. Although I was primarily a student at the time, these initial enterprises and adventures instilled a passion for personal growth, creativity and leadership that would underlie all my future endeavors.

In September 2002, in search of finding ways to bring peace to the world in a way that made sense to me, I attended a seminar with Executive Success Programs, Inc. (ESP) at the advice of someone I considered a true friend and mentor. The company offers trainings in personal, ethical and professional development and I was immediately able to identify the practical applications of Rational Inquiry™, the company’s proprietary technology created by founder Keith Raniere, to all aspects of my life – most especially my vision for a better world. Moved by the immediate and profound benefits I experienced through the application of Rational Inquiry™’s tools in my life, I decided to begin a career with the company. I recognized, in true Gandhian fashion, I needed to become the change I wanted to see in the world, and that it would take some effort (I later discovered this would be an ongoing quest, a journey – as Ben Sweetland would say – not a destination).

Even before I finished the first part of my training, I recognized the potential Rational Inquiry™ would have if used by people of influence. I eagerly approached the company’s President Nancy Salzman – a woman with incredible vision, heart and an understanding of people unsurpassed by anyone I know – to return to teaching and run a VIP training program, providing distinguished individuals with specialized training and coaching. This we did, with perhaps a little too much success! (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1013/088.html) Within two years, I became one of the company’s top-ranked international trainers and was elected to serve as Director of Humanities, overseeing the company’s humanitarian activities within its thirty-three-country network. I also opened ESP’s activities in Great Britain in 2005, and have been responsible for the organization’s European endeavors. Most recently, and among several other projects, I have collaborated with teams of wonderful, highly motivated young professionals to launch ESP Centers in both New York City and Belfast, Northern Ireland.

In addition to pursuing my passion for inspiring a more humanitarian world through building ESP, I have also partnered with like-minded people to create additional businesses and not-for-profit organizations. In 2007 my sister Clare and I founded the Ethical Humanitarian Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting the evolution of humanity through ethics. In late 2008, Clare and I, together with our mentor and conceptual founder Keith Raniere, created the World Ethical Foundations Consortium, a highly directed, non-profit initiative dedicated to building a more compassionate, ethical experience for humanity.

I have been incredibly fortunate over the years to have had the privilege of meeting, working with and learning from some of my life long heroes; namely, Richard Branson and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Both of these men have been beacons of light in my life. Since I was a young girl they were people I aimed, and still do, to be like. Both have a global vision, spend their lives forwarding humanity and care deeply about people – touching hearts and bringing joy to people’s lives, at least to mine. In addition, I have not only had the joy of meeting and discovering new teachers and role models like Abby Disney and Lama Tenzin Dhonden, but I have also discovered teachers and role models in people I have known all my life. Most especially my younger sister Clare Bronfman, my mother Georgiana Havers, and perhaps the person who I would define as my master teacher in this life; my father, Edgar M. Bronfman Snr.

All of these blessings and more I have acquired with the help of two very special people, whose time and attention I have  been fortunate enough to earn over the past seven years. The teachings, tools and examples of Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman have not only helped me forward my vision in the world but have also helped me have a deeper, evermore joyful experience of life while doing so. I cannot thank them enough. I can only begin to imagine what the next months and years will hold and I look forward to sharing my self and my journey, past, present and future, with you through the medium of this blog.

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