Catherine Bell
Available to Speak:
Virtual and in-person
About Catherine
Catherine R Bell is a successful entrepreneur, best-selling author, and globally recognized leader in organizational strategy, leadership, and corporate culture. As the Founder and CEO of The Awakened Company, Catherine helps organizations move beyond traditional financial metrics to build healthy, purposeful, and high-performance cultures. Her revolutionary business book, The Awakened Company, is a multi-award-winning bestseller that has redefined how leaders integrate mindfulness with business research to ignite team dynamics. A serial entrepreneur, Catherine previously founded BluEra, a Profit 500 executive search firm that became a shining example of her “Awakened Company” system before its successful sale. She has two audioprograms from Sounds True on relationships and creativity. Her upcoming book, The Creative Moment: Awaken Creativity Through the Enneagram, published by Penguin Random House, arrives in November 2026. Named one of the “Top 10 Innovative CEOs Revamping the Future” by The Inc. Magazine, she consults for Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. Catherine holds an MBA from Queen’s University, a Sociology Degree from Western University, and is a certified Enneagram Teacher.
Areas of Expertise
Catherine Bell helps CEOs and leadership teams build thriving, values-led cultures by developing the inner leadership skills that drive the outer results—self-awareness, presence, and intentional communication. As founder of The Awakened Company, she blends mindful leadership (“the power of the pause”) with tools like the Enneagram to strengthen team dynamics, improve decision-making under pressure, and align leadership behavior with organizational values to increase engagement and performance.
- Mindful leadership
- Self-awareness for leaders
- The power of the pause
- Enneagram in business
- Leadership potential & presence
- Team dynamics
- Values-based culture
- Employee engagement
- Purpose-driven leadership
- Conscious leadership/culture
Types of Events
Best for CEO forums, leadership offsites, and interactive workshops where leaders want practical tools to level up self-awareness, strengthen team dynamics, and build a values-driven culture—with time for reflection, discussion, and real application.
Common Engagements
- CEO Forum meetings
- Executive peer groups
- Leadership workshops
- Senior leadership offsites
- Culture & engagement sessions
- Retreat sessions
- Keynotes
- Panels
- Q&A sessions
