2020 Influential Businesswoman Awards

Acquisition International - 2020 Worldwide Finance Awards 13 fter graduating from university, Bronwen Sciortino stepped straight into a career in Financial Services, where she spent the next two decades developing into a high-powered, award- winning executive… but at a cost. Having been stretched too far by the pressures of competing in a male-dominated environment that clashed with her personal values, Bronwen became exhausted and stressed, eventually leading to a breakdown. For Bronwen, her recovery proved to be a vital turning point, showing her that there is a very different way to live, where stress and exhaustion don’t exist and clarity comes easily. In 2015, she established sheIQ Life, dedicated to helping people eliminate the risk of burnout by living life more simply. Knowing what it is like to suffer from ‘bone-deep’ exhaustion, Bronwen is able to relate to the increasing number of people, predominantly women, who give too much to their busy, messy lives without taking the opportunity to consider themselves and their wellbeing. Armed with her principles and tools, Bronwen is helping people to reconnect with themselves and their communities, simplifying their lives to build happiness. In dealing with the impact of stress, exhaustion and burnout, Bronwen has found that most people are normally faced with two major issues; the first is an individual’s reliance on their employers and workplaces to provide training and development programmes to overcome stress. However, most organisations can only offer generalised, group format training that is not conducive to the rebuilding of an individual’s happiness. Second, is the tendency to seek the answers to individual problems in other people, wasting time and energy in solutions that are not suited to them. Each person is unique and extraordinary and there is no ‘cookie- cutter’ approach to helping every person find simplicity. sheIQ Life is designed to resolve both of these problems, allowing organisations to provide training in a group format as well as individualising the tools to create tailormade solutions for each client. Working with small, medium and large organisations within a diversity of industries, Bronwen operates globally through corporate programs, conference platforms, retreats, professional mentoring and online platforms, as well as the publication of her three critically acclaimed books. With the number of people in the workplace experiencing burnout or exhaustion-induced breakdowns increasing every year, the question is being asked, ‘what if there is a better way to live?’ Having tackled her own challenges concerning over-exhaustion, and stress, Bronwen Sciortino, an internationally renowned author, simplicity expert and professional speaker, is proving to the world that it is not necessary to push ourselves to the limit to get where we want in life. sheIQ Life is assisting people globally to realise this and rebuild balance and happiness within their lives. Most Influential Female Entrepreneur (Oceania): Bronwen Sciortino A Bronwen herself has received accolades and recognition for her work that breaks down the journey to a happy and successful life into easily achievable steps. The results are boundless, helping individuals achieve contentment in life while businesses thrive thanks to the positivity of the environment created by happy employees. For Bronwen, among her greatest achievements is the success of her first book, that is a testament to her amazing recovery she is now able to share with others. Around 75% of her work is dedicated to women who find themselves in similar situations to Bronwen prior to sheIQ Life. Having experienced the struggles of trying to keep up in corporate environments built for men, she advises both men and women to know your own values and align everything you do with them. Do not waste your time and talents on people who do not recognise your value but be guided by the things that are important to you. The more we seek to do this, the less stressed we will be and the happier and healthier as a result. Frequently supporting and donating to charitable, non-profit and community organisations, Bronwen is constantly seeking to build awareness of burnout and its impact and inform sufferers of how to accept, heal and then move forward from their trauma. This is also part of Bronwen’s fourth book that she is currently working on. Alongside this project, Bronwen is working hard to grow her profile on a global scale, recognising that her services are becoming increasingly vital with the rise in stress, exhaustion and burnout worldwide. Constant media presence, collaborations with an array of organisations and the launch of two new platforms to assist busy, professional women beat stress and burnout are just some of the ways in which Bronwen is seeking to spread her central, crucial message; that there is so much more to life than stress and exhaustion. sheIQ Life is ready and eager to help the world discover this for themselves. Contact: Bronwen Sciortino Company: sheIQ Life Pty Ltd Web Address: www.sheiqlife.com