what we care about drives us.
After I was told it was no longer a matter of if I was going to get cancer, it was a matter of when I decided it was time to take charge of my health and change my destiny. I set out to learn how to master stress, fight disease, and more importantly, support my whole human health to feel better so I could be at my best. Little did I know it would completely change how I think, engage, work, find resilience, perform, and thrive in my work and life every day. I realized that fear is not a sustainable motivator, care is.
— Jeanette Bronée
WHY BOOK JEANETTE TO SPEAK?
Jeanette is on a mission to help leaders and organizations unlock the Human Advantage in an AI-driven world. She shows how the power of a pause can recalibrate how we think, connect, and lead—transforming urgency into clarity, care into collaboration, and workplaces into cultures where people thrive together.
She equips audiences with practical tools like Power-Pausing™, The Wisdom Reset, and the CARE Operating System, showing how small, intentional shifts can spark trust, resilience, and innovation across teams.
Recalibrating stress into strength and change into growth: one Power-Pause at a time.
Jeanette Bronée: Global Keynote Speaker & Author
Helping Leaders Unlock the Human Advantage & build trust in a changing, AI-Driven World
Jeanette Bronée is a respected culture strategist, facilitator, and leadership advisor whose work centers on human development, organizational transformation, and conscious leadership. She is also a global keynote speaker and the author of The Self-Care Mindset®. A three-time TEDx speaker who has also presented her work at the United Nations, Jeanette is known for helping leaders and organizations unlock the Human Advantage in an AI-driven world.
Her approach integrates practical frameworks with deep psychological and relational insight, making her sought-after across industries committed to meaningful growth, human connection, and systemic change. Drawing on more than two decades of experience in marketing, leadership, neuroscience, psychology, behavior change, and mindfulness, she equips leaders with the tools to shift from urgency to clarity, from performance pressure to inner alignment, and from workforce to force of work.
Jeanette’s facilitation style is rooted in clarity, care, and presence. She helps people pause long enough to navigate complexity, reconnect with their inner compass, and realign with what truly matters. She emphasizes trust as the invisible glue that holds teams together and the foundation for cultures where people feel safe to think, speak, belong, and innovate together.
Through her signature frameworks — Power-Pausing™, the CARE Operating System, and The Wisdom Reset — Jeanette bridges personal growth with organizational recalibration. Her work guides leaders to align the Inner Brand (attention, care, and capacity) with the Outer Brand (culture, communication, and impact), transforming how people work and lead not by doing more, but by leading wiser.
Born in Denmark and now based in New York, Jeanette brings a global perspective shaped by Scandinavian values: trust, shared responsibility, and the belief that leadership is not about control, but about care. These roots continue to inform her mission to help organizations build cultures where clarity, trust, and connection fuel the future of work.
When she isn’t on stage or working with leaders, Jeanette lives in the Catskill Mountains with her dog, Maya. She finds balance and joy in motorcycling through winding roads in the summer and skiing in the quiet of winter.
At the heart of her work is a simple but powerful belief: every person matters.
By learning to pause, recalibrate, and lead with care, we not only grow through adversity, we build cultures of trust where people feel safe to lead, grow, and belong.
My Story and How I Learned That Trust Is the Foundation of Everything That Matters
I didn’t set out to teach trust. I learned it the hard way — by living without it.
I grew up in Denmark in a family where the emotional weather could change at any moment. My mother struggled with bipolar disorder, and while she loved deeply, her moods often made love feel unsafe. I never knew which version of her I would meet, and that uncertainty taught me to become hyper-aware — always scanning for the signals, always trying to make things okay.
At the same time, my father was a steady presence, my anchor. He was a teacher who taught me to ask questions to solve problems, to stay curious even in the face of difficulty. From him, I learned to trust my mind, even when my world felt emotionally unpredictable. He helped build in me a quiet confidence, courage, and an unshakable curiosity, qualities that became my compass later in life.
Like many children in high-functioning but emotionally complex homes, I became the responsible one. The calm one. The one who held space for everyone else. I didn’t realize it then, but I was learning to read people, hold contradictions, and build bridges, all essential for the work I do now.
As an adult, I climbed fast in the fashion industry. I looked successful from the outside, but I was running on empty. Then everything cracked open. Within one year, I lost both of my parents to cancer. A short time later, I sat in a doctor’s office and was told, “If you don’t change how you live, you may not survive either.”
That was my wake-up call. It forced me to ask a question I had avoided for years: Do I trust the life I’ve built?
The answer was no.
I left my career and founded Path for Life® in 2004 to understand what it truly takes to thrive — not just survive. At first, my focus was on health and burnout prevention. But the deeper I went into leadership coaching, team culture, and systems transformation, the more clearly I saw the pattern.
People weren’t just exhausted from too much work.
They were depleted from too little trust in themselves, in leadership, in each other, and in the future.
That’s when I understood: Trust isn’t a soft skill. It’s a survival skill.
It’s the hidden disruptor when it’s missing, and the invisible glue when it’s present. It’s what makes resilience real, collaboration possible, and momentum sustainable.
Through Power-Pausing™, the CARE Operating System, and The Wisdom Reset, I’ve spent the past two decades helping leaders and teams rebuild what we’ve forgotten:
That trust is not something we wait for. It’s something we practice in every conversation, every decision, every pause.
For me, this journey began long before the stage, before the book, before the frameworks.
It started in the family kitchen in Denmark, watching my mother unravel, watching my father ground us, and learning how to hold space for both.
Now, I teach leaders how to do the same.
Not just to lead through uncertainty, but to shape cultures where people feel safe to show up — and strong enough to grow.
What Others Say
Jeanette Bronée is a sense-maker and engaging speaker, who creates ‘ah-ha’ moments that lead to a true understanding of the topics she discusses with motivational ‘take-home’ tools that help her audiences feel both inspired and able to immediately take steps towards peak performance and mental agility by learning how to implement a healthy mindset in their daily lives.
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Jeanette’s message is so important and timely. Our staff, everyone from creatives to finance and young to old across genders, all felt inspired to take better care of themselves which will help them to be more effective and productive both personally and professionally. It’s a win win. Jeanette was also a joy to work while preparing for the keynote and I highly recommend her to other groups.
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Ali Pulver
Chairwomen of Omniwomen NY
(a 5000+ member corporate organization)
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Jeanette Bronee brings decades of experience helping people transform their lives by accessing their inner wisdom to the stage and breakout sessions through relatable, engaging stories and tactics that leave audiences inspired to make changes. She shares field-tested self-care and WELL-BEING advice that improves your company’s performance for a healthier bottom line.
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Jen Singer
Author of The Just Diagnosed Guides